The time is now. People dismissing streaming games and saying all the reasons for why it won't work will be left behind. Having tried all the popular ones in the past(Onlive, PS Now and recently Shadow), I can say without a shadow of doubt(Pun not intended) that the latency problem for the most part will be a thing of the past to the majority of people.
I recently tried out Shadow's streaming service which basically streams a full fledged, high end gaming PC to you over the internet and I can't say I wasn't impressed. It worked flawlessly with no discernible input lag or latency and all you need is decent internet(I have 150 Mbp/s Down/Up). I've even played a few games of Apex legends on there with no problems. Best of all is the PC that's streaming to you comes with 1 gigabit internet so when you use it, you can download games to that machine extremely fast. Again, I play on a 144hz G sync monitor and testing between the two obviously the g sync locally looks better and is smooth but the streamed version is fine. I played a few games of Apex legends through this with no issues.
If you want to see what it's like, basically check this out.
Trust me, it works as advertised here. The only problem I had was with my phone but that must be my phone because my work laptop had no problem in the same environment.
I'm sure later this year or next year this will be MUCH more antiquated on consoles especially on Xbox.
I recently tried out Shadow's streaming service which basically streams a full fledged, high end gaming PC to you over the internet and I can't say I wasn't impressed. It worked flawlessly with no discernible input lag or latency and all you need is decent internet(I have 150 Mbp/s Down/Up). I've even played a few games of Apex legends on there with no problems. Best of all is the PC that's streaming to you comes with 1 gigabit internet so when you use it, you can download games to that machine extremely fast. Again, I play on a 144hz G sync monitor and testing between the two obviously the g sync locally looks better and is smooth but the streamed version is fine. I played a few games of Apex legends through this with no issues.
If you want to see what it's like, basically check this out.
Trust me, it works as advertised here. The only problem I had was with my phone but that must be my phone because my work laptop had no problem in the same environment.
I'm sure later this year or next year this will be MUCH more antiquated on consoles especially on Xbox.