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I remember trying out Gaikai in some 2009, and I was completely blown away both by the quality and by the latency. It felt like magic, I couldn't understand why they didn't succeed commercially, and I still can't understand why there is still no better service out there.

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THer's also GeForceNow, from nvidia - it's been around for a few years now.

I've used it for Prey 2 (finished) and The Witcher 3 (in progress) and I'm really happy with it. It's still in closed beta (although I think it's available commercially somewhere in Asia(?)), but it's a no frills product that does exactly what it says.

There's no platform play, though (like the Stadia integration with youtube and special Stadia dev framework etc), but that's an advantage to some.

I also have a GeForce Now account, but somehow, it doesn't feel as smooth as Gaikai back then. An FPS like CS GO is unplayable for me - because of input lag.

When World of Warcraft got released, 2004, they optimized bandwidth usage for 56k modems in order to ensure that they can cover a big percentage of the market.

And at many places, if it's not a city, you still (in 2019) have to deal with ISPs which offer not much more.

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