Category · Cloud & Streaming
Stream-first devices and the native-vs-cloud math — latency, screens, and what you give up to go thin.
Cloud gaming trades silicon for a subscription and a dependency on your network. Here is the honest math: the latency stack, the real bandwidth floor, and when streaming beats owning the compute.
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