Both my PC and my Steam link are connected via cable to the router and this removes basically all the noticable Input lag and allows the games to look pretty good when you consider they are being streamed onto the TV: I realise that this might not be the way that machine was advertised but I still think it’s a convenient little box even though you need a LAN cable for the best performance.

I tried a variety of games and actually didn’t have a problem with any of them neither in regards of input lag nor that the streamed graphics quality made the game unplayable.

Games that I played for quite some time or tried out were Contrast, Sonic Generations, Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed, Dark Souls 2, Final Fantasy 7, Grow Home and MGS 5.

My PC is a mixed bag with a fairly new GTX 970 and a pretty old i5 2400.

I have to agree though that one will definitely experience issues in terms of Big Picture mode and error messages (or launchers) popping up. These issues, where the game booted me out of BP were solvable most of the time by plugging in a wireless mouse and just clicking “Ok” or whatever, in the window that opened up, but I had my fair share of walking into the other room and doing something on my PC to fix it.

In my opinion this is a neat little device and has also helped me by providing solutions for other little problems apart from playing games on my TV like giving me a method to show pictures on my TV without using a flash drive. My Link gets turned on around once or twice every two weeks for a couple of hours for some relaxing time on the sofa and I don’t regret buying one. As mentioned above you have to be aware of the BP software issues though and that using this thing without an ethernet cable connection results in input lag. So if you can’t use a cable you should think about which games you want to play and if total precision is required for the enjoyment of these games.

Are you really suggesting that only rich people have stairs? I wish I could afford a detached bungalow.

And when you said “downstairs” I remembered about first world problems. Yes, cable can be annoying if you live in a mansion.

You don’t need to connect it to the PC with an Ethernet cable. You connect it to your router with the Ethernet cable which in most peoples house is usually going to be by the TV, or at least close to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_exclusives_%28eighth_generation%29

Glad you reviewed this, though. I’d thought about it, but it sounded iffy from what I was reading. It seems that Valve mistakenly viewed it’s de facto monopoly on PC games to be the result of some kind of world class company culture rather than just being prescient on *one* thing many years ago.

Why do you need this if you can just shove HDMI cable from PC to the screen? Especially if, as you explained, you need to connect Link to PC with Ethernet cable? Is this supposed to be a futuristic device for a time when wi-fi will give us 100mbps and you could play on a PC located in your other apartment?