Plenty of people I know refer to local game streaming setups as services, especially when they’re run as system services or hosted servers (like I do).
In my world, anything that runs persistently and offers functionality, whether it’s local or the cloud, is a service. I run a local game streaming setup that fits that definition exactly and so yeah, when I hear game streaming service, that’s what I think of.
That said, I get that others could associate the term more with commercial cloud solutions with some reflection. Just not where my brain goes by default, since I don’t use them and nobody I know does or would as we can host our own “services” for this purpose.
In my world, anything that runs persistently and offers functionality, whether it’s local or the cloud, is a service. I run a local game streaming setup that fits that definition exactly and so yeah, when I hear game streaming service, that’s what I think of.
That said, I get that others could associate the term more with commercial cloud solutions with some reflection. Just not where my brain goes by default, since I don’t use them and nobody I know does or would as we can host our own “services” for this purpose.
My bad.