Steam Link....

Pain..... I have it. The pain of an ear infection for me feels exactly like a massive over sensitive toothache with the added bonus of that pain being in the ear, jaw and neck.... It also affects my inner ear and in turn a loss of some balance(akin to vertigo). Alternating over the counter pain killers help but only dulls things for a time. All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again....I can handle the pain(not to boast or anything), it's the lack of sleep that's the real hassle. Why all this real world waffle?  I'm on night 2 of no sleep so hello internet lookup's!!!!!!!!!!

Tonight brings me to Steam Link for Android. I've recently updated my phone so wasn't to keen on trying to push my old phone with remote play; This new phone, no problem. No problem at all. Bigger screen, better quality, so worth a try. I really like the option of remote play being available for a bunch of games; More-so now that I've tried it than I ever thought about before with the Xbox to PC app. Not all games in my library are available and not all that are, are suited to it(imho). I tried out one that was, Euro Truck Sim 2. Really surprised by how easy it was to control with just the screen as a 'touch pad'. Graphics and latency were no issue at all. Granted the PC, router and phone are all within 5 foot of each other so no surprise that it all ran 'smoothly'. With a little practice it could be really intuitive to use.

It's rare that I'd need to game on a phone for an extended period and even if I did, to use this system would need my home PC on & logged in; That's never really the case for me. Besides out of habit the pc gets turned off when I'm 'out'. I'll stick to a gaming laptop and phone hot-spot for internet when away from home. I've no real use for this system but it is handy. Nice to have options.

On a side note I can see a more positive side to a Stadia like system, technically, if nothing else.