My Time With NVIDIA GeForce Now

Jamie tried streaming a game.

- Jamie Davies

I’m conflicted when it comes to the topic of streaming games. On one hand, the utopian vision of high-end gaming experiences being available to anyone, potentially on any device, is intriguing—inspiring even. On the other hand, the intangibility of cloud-based gaming makes it a hard sell. Call me old-fashioned, but the idea of playing a game—properly playing it, from start to finish—via stream is fundamentally unappealing. There’s too many unstable factors to rely on: it feels like crossing a rickety rope-bridge that could give way at any moment. It’s why I paid no mind to Google Stadia: I was curious, sure, but not enough to buy into a service and then purchase games that would inevitably be inferior to their traditional counterparts.