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I mean, at what point will we go full circle of going back to a "mainframe" where consumers don't really own/posses the computing power, rather it's down in datacenters. Like, you play your game through a VM basically, and your personal computer is just an AWS instance...



GeForce Now[0] - a VM you connect to from your PC, install games and stream.

GeForce Now for SHIELD[1] - Different model, more like "netflix for games"

[0]: http://www.geforce.com/geforce-now [1]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/games/geforce-now/




Pretty much already there.




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