[ajbetteridge]

An upside to cloud gaming (the same for any cloud use) is that you can take advantage of the providers upgrades for little extra cost. So if AWS upgrade to Tesla V-series you don't have to spend the money to buy that new card, just spend a relatively smaller amount extra each month for the cloud usage. So if I buy a GTX 10-series today and AWS (magically) used Tesla tomorrow, I haven't lost out. Obviously the amount of hours you spend gaming is still very much the leading factor in whether you cloud game or not, but for the "casual" 8 to 10 hours per week gamer, cloud is possibly still the best option.

[alexgmcm]

Also as someone moving house, being able to just carry a light laptop instead of some big gaming tower is handy.