As time moves on, there are more and more different ways to enjoy all manner of video games, from a range of different devices, and at a variety of different price options as well.

With the recent advances in the sophistication of mobile technology, it’s already now the case that some highly acclaimed classics of yesteryear, such as Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic 2, can now be downloaded and played directly from your tablet.

At the same time, a new generation of consoles has just hit the market – stock shortages notwithstanding – and many new PC games are taking advantage of hardware specs that would have been unthinkable even a few years ago.

Out of all the recent trends in gaming, however, high performance cloud-based gaming has really taken off in the last few months, with Google’s Stadia platform becoming known as one of the best ways to play Cyberpunk 2077 with minimal performance issues, and with NVidia’s GeForce Now bringing games from users Steam libraries to the cloud.

Despite a lot of the controversy surrounding cloud gaming, could it be the way of the future?

Here are a few benefits of cloud gaming