Cloud gaming stopped being a novelty around the time GeForce NOW added RTX 4080-class servers and Microsoft folded streaming into cheaper Game Pass tiers. Search interest in “cloud gaming” has climbed 975% over the past five years, according to Exploding Topics’ analysis of gaming search trends, and three services now dominate the category: Xbox Cloud Gaming, NVIDIA GeForce NOW, and PlayStation Plus Premium’s streaming catalog.
The catch is that cloud gaming isn’t one product you install once. It’s three separate ecosystems,…