The best "streaming" game service right now is Geforce Now. It's amazing. It's damn near imperceptible to a native PC experience. If anyone has doubts, I'd highly suggest they try that. The rest of the industry just has to catch up to the standard that Nvidia has set and then they'll be converts.
It will never replace a local experience for me, but if I didn't have access to my hardware and felt the urge to play, playing on Geforce Now would easily hold me over.
Geforce Now is indeed amazing and the best streaming service "if" you already have compatible games and the expensive 3080 tier.
Nonetheless GFN isn't the best free cloud service. It has more games than rivals but it's a pretty unbalanced library.
As a Segaboy i was goddam excited to play Yakuza 6 at 60FPS (10fps on my local laptop), excited to play 60FPS RDR2 as well...
NOPE. Almost no Sega games on GFN (only 1 game), no RDR2 compatible...
People can piss on Google as much as they want but Stadia paid for an efficient library of japanese and western big publishers:
Dragon Engine games ? We have Judgment/VF5 on Stadia. We have RDR2 at 60FPS (still at 30 FPS on PS5) with no queue like the free GFN tier and unlimited game sessions...
Stadia had the best Cloud tech. Now it's the GFN3080 tier but what is the point if you cannot play the games you like ? No Sega games, no RDR2, no DQ11, no RE8... Icing on the cake, you pay 200 dollars a year for amazing graphics running... the old gen Fifa22. Fifa 22 next gen is only on PS5/Series X and... Stadia (with crossplay).
Yeah, GFN is great (and will be amazing soon with growing library) but it's not for everyone ATM.