The biggest issue I've had is internet. Outside of my own home the internet has been slow, laggy, or compressed the image to much. It's generally unplayable.

In between being able to afford a gaming device. I used parsec, and rented a machine to play games. FPS online multi player games were very difficult. The latency was to much for that. But other games, strategy, sports, etc. Worked fine. It was also great being able to connect anywhere and have my full game suite.

Right now I'm trying something similar in my home setup. I switched mobile gaming to old emulators and indies. With a bluetooth controller. (Ryzen 2700u). My home server is running a windows vm for gaming, and I stream everything over gigabit lan. That is working wonderfully so far.

I see this going two routes. For the casual gamer. As long as we have good internet. Then this can be a big win. Discarding the drm and ownership concerns.

For the more enthusiast / pro gamer. With the spark of 144hz freesync and gsync monitors. I don't see these streaming services being able to keep up. I still see a number of gamers wanting to build a gaming rig. I want to because I think it's fun. I just hope that this doesn't harm/limit any of the other gaming stores.