Remote play is amazing. You can play your own games on your own hardware while you’re away from your screen and console/PC, as long as you have a reliable internet connection. Now, Razer is making its own option.
Razer has announced the release of PC Remote Play, currently in beta, as a way for gamers to stream their PC game library directly to their mobile devices. This service will allow you to play your PC library remotely from your smartphone or tablet, enabling you to enjoy your favorite titles without being tethered to your desktop setup.
Central to the experience is the Razer Nexus app, a subscription-free platform that serves as the hub for PC Remote Play. Through Nexus, gamers can access and launch their entire PC game collection directly from their mobile device. Razer says that the streaming technology ensures no compromise on visual quality or game speed, delivering the full fidelity of the original PC gaming experience. This is, of course, relative—even if the compression method used by Razer to stream video is effective enough to achieve this, your smartphone might also have a lower resolution that your monitor, so it will never actually be 1:1. But we’ll have to see how well this claim actually holds up in real life, as Razer is also not giving us absolutely any more specifics on this “full-fidelity” gameplay experience.
PC Remote Play is also designed to work seamlessly with the Razer Kishi Ultra, a high-end mobile gaming controller, and this is probably what will work best with it. When paired with an Android device, the Kishi Ultra’s Razer Sensa HD Haptics technology provides tactile feedback, further enhancing the immersion of mobile gameplay.
The service itself looks really similar to Steam Remote Play, and we’d need to see how Razer’s offering stacks up compared to that one. Make sure to check out Razer’s website if you want to know more about this.
Source: Razer