Online game streaming services are beginning to pop up all over the place, and they each promise a future in which you can kick your game system and discs to the curb. Just subscribe to their services, they insist, and you'll have instant, anywhere-you-want access to new games running on high-end computers.
As people who've tested the likes of Nvidia Grid, PlayStation Now, and GameFly Streaming can attest to, these services work to some extent—with their fair share of caveats. In particular, the server-to-user structure introduces lag and button-press delays—twitchy-gaming kryptonite, basically—and their game rosters tend to dig back a few years as opposed to being loaded with the coolest new titles.
The game-streaming crowd grew one bigger last Tuesday thanks to an entry from a company we never expected to join the fray: Comcast. They didn't offer some sort of far-off tease, either. Within hours of an announcement, the cable and Internet company's Xfinity Games service debuted, albeit in beta form, for an invite-only slew of its X1 TV customers.
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