Game Streaming Round-Up: NVIDIA GeForce Now, Google Stadia, XCloud, PS Now, & Amazon Luna

This game streaming services round-up reviews GeForce Now vs. Xbox Cloud Gaming, PS Now, Amazon Luna, and Google Stadia. Testing considers latency, game selection, & hardware.
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There's a lot more we could do and say about each one of these services, but not while still including them all in one video. If you have a particular service you'd like to hear more about, please comment below to let us know which one!

This piece attempts to be a somewhat full look at multiple game streaming services (as a potentially emerging market), but with how many services there are and how complex each is, we obviously have to limit how long we spend on each one. Benchmarking is particularly hard to do in a like-for-like fashion, as latency benchmarks would ideally be done using the same games or software and input for each test. We were able to control the games and the input, but the list of games shared across all these services is limited. We still were able to match enough services against a few titles to build a good idea for basic latency behavior. Other considerations during the review process include billing (whether it's truly free or requires payment info to sign up), accessibility, controller or desktop support, games selection (most importantly), and server-side hardware.

Check out our coverage of the Nvidia Reflex enabled monitor that we used for latency testing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqP3zPm2SMc
Google Stadia "negative latency" testing from previously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVTsj66g9bA

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Game Streaming Service Shoot-Out
04:16 - Methodology
05:46 - Latency Comparison of Game Streaming Services
07:25 - Google Stadia Test
11:52 - GeForce Now Testing & Review
19:42 - GeForce Now Alternatives
20:38 - Amazon Luna Review
21:38 - Quick Aside on Ubisoft Plus
22:09 - Back to Amazon Luna
25:28 - Playstation Now Review
28:56 - Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) Review
31:39 - Conclusion

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