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This could be great for strategy games like Civilization, Sim City/City Skylines, Age of Empires. Or, you know, chess.

It's also plausible for games where latency isn't a big issue. Something like EVE Online seems like a good fit (I've never played, but I get the impression it isn't a quick reaction type game).

At the conference they focused a lot on first person action games and streaming to Youtube. Both of these aspirations are deluded. Action games are plausible if you're on a network with super low latency to Google's data centers, like say Google Fiber. Since Google just discontinued Fiber, this isn't going to happen.

Streaming to Youtube is nice, but in no way needs a dedicated hardware button.

There are definitely interesting things they could do with massively multiplayer worlds with low barriers to entry. There's real potential here, if Google manages to focus on this product long term.

If Google can stay focused. There's the rub.