With many games easily passing 50GB, that can save a lot of downloading time and storage space. Making cloud gaming harder to pull off than video streaming is the added complication of sending controller input (pressing buttons and moving analog sticks) up to the cloud, the game actions playing out on that remote server, then beaming the resulting video output back to your screen.īut just as few people still download full movies or hoard DVDs, eventually game discs will disappear (they're already on the way out) and even full game downloads may be replaced by streaming. The content lives on a remote server somewhere and is beamed to your screen in real time.
Cloud gaming, or game streaming, is similar to watching a Netflix movie.