"Rainway" Eshop Third Party App will let you stream Pc Games on Nintendo Switch

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d21lewis said:

sc94597 said:
I don't see why this can't be smooth enough. Plenty of people play games on their Wii U tablets at the ugly 480p video quality, streaming PC games to the Switch would be pretty cool. I'd love to play Dolphin on my Switch.

Never knew what the resolution of the WiiU game pad was but I always thought it looked great. Oh well. My biggest problem with streaming is connection issues. When streaming to my admittedly shitty PC/Laptop or to my Vita via Remote Play, there has always been problems or lag--even with PS4 Pro. WiiU somehow never had that problem. I don't know why.

 

If they can replicate WiiU performance and stability on the Switch I'll change my tune 180 degrees.

The wiiu uses proprietary method of streaming to it's gamepad which doesn't use your wifi. There is a specialized hardware built into the wiiu console and gamepad that allows it to send and recieve the data. Remote play and pc streaming does it through wifi so its success is entirely dependent on the quailty of your router and the devices it is streaming from and to. In order to get the lowest possible results lag and latency, your pc/ps4 pro would need to be connected via ethernet to the router and the router has to have at a minimum wireless N at 5ghz. And of course, the switch has 5 ghz wifi.

But even with that, it would also depend on how the software will handle the streaming and compression. The more uncompressed the streaming is, the more likely you will get lag. And even if thats perfect, it still won't be as low as wiiu's low latency. But in ideal situations, there shouldnt be much lag and the input lathency should be good enough.