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vivster on 24 April 2017

As if the Switch isn't already suffering enough from Shield comparisons^^



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JRPGfan on 24 April 2017
Soundwave said:
Would Nintendo allow this? It'd be awesome if true though.

It would end up costing them game sales they profit on, so its not a good deal for them.



Barozi on 24 April 2017
Soundwave said:

Apparently the beta will be released next month. Devs are either really confident or delusional.

Can I get a video player app while they're at it? 

Funny point -- You'd be able to play Rare Replay and Killer Instinct on Switch if this is actually true, lol. 

How? The game isn't on PC.



TomaTito on 24 April 2017

It is a Nvidia Shield after all, but I thought they meant Moonlight!

I'm building Rainway which will work on all GPUs and have support for streaming to your web browser, phone (iOS/Android), Xbox and Nintendo switch.

We're hopefully launching the beta next month.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/673xd1/streaming_the_witcher_3_to_my_s8_plus_it_works/#dgnm39a



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SuperNova on 24 April 2017

The sexy Brutale on my Switch? Hell, yes!

Eherm, yeah it would be a cool feature if it works well, but I really can't imagine Nintendo letting it on the eshop...



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TomaTito on 24 April 2017

As I posted above, if the app doesn't go forward, it can also work via a browser too.



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dgboweniii on 24 April 2017

If this works smoothly its a game changing feature. The problem is that it wont, even streaming Steam to Steam over STEAM LINK is a "Steaming" (pun intended) Pile of crap. no way a 3rd party app will do it better.



sc94597 on 24 April 2017

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.



dgboweniii on 24 April 2017

they will lock it down to steam only streaming, probably via big picture and the Nvidia Geforce experience app.  Tbey would never allow open streaming of an emulator to the switch.



sc94597 on 24 April 2017
dgboweniii said:

they will lock it down to steam only streaming, probably via big picture and the *Nvidia Geforce experience app.  Tbey would never allow open streaming of an emulator to the switch.

Not a problem. You can add games to steam as executables. *Do you predict that they'd limit this to Nvidia GPU's?