Gaming in the Cloud: Streaming Latency and Playability
Gaming in the Cloud: Streaming Latency and Playability Cloud gaming lets you play demanding titles on devices that do not run the game locally. Latency—the delay from your input to what appears on screen—matters most in fast actions. Latency is a chain: your input travels to a data center, the game runs there, the image is encoded, sent to you, decoded, and shown. Even small delays can change timing in shooters or platformers, or make puzzle games feel sluggish. ...