One last note I wanted to touch on was game streaming. I looked into this after trying a relative's Wii U out and being fascinated with the Wii U Gamepad's ability to stream games to the handheld wirelessly without a hitch. This is something I am eager to try, but sadly I don't have the necessary hardware (namely, a modern day wireless router) to do so, and will not be able to afford these things for several more months. I do have the computer hardware, phone, and controller for it.

I actually got very close to getting it to work with my current hardware. I can stream games to my phone from my computer with perfect or close-to-perfect performance and a good resolution. The problem is that my controller is bluetooth. And as it turns out, when I enable bluetooth on my phone, it interferes with the wifi signal and it goes from streaming pretty much perfectly to becoming incredibly slow, ugly, and dropping tons of frames, stuttering, staggering, and generally being totally unplayable. On the bright side, the controller absolutely worked with the PC through this method, and I was able to play Xbox 360 controller compatible games without even having to mess around with x360ce.

It is my understanding that 802.11g works on the 2.4GHz frequency, as does bluetooth, and this may well be the root of my problem. I'm hoping that, one day, when I am able to get an 802.11ac router (I've been looking at the TP-LINK Archer C7), which works on the 5.0GHz frequency, that this could solve my problem and I will be able to play my Steam controller-compatible library and emulate PS2, Gamecube, and Wii games without having to sit at my desk or use the TV.

If you want to do this, you will want a controller, an Android device, a wireless router, an Nvidia card (as this uses the Nvidia software's Gamestream feature), and the Android app Moonlight. It was actually really painless to set up. And if you have all the necessary hardware for it, you don't have to give up on PC gaming to enjoy Android gaming. You can use just about every controller compatible game in your Steam library to turn your computer into a handheld game system. Of course, it would need to be within range of your router, though I've heard of success with people streaming games with a remote wifi connection, not unlike the late OnLive. I did play Just Cause 2 on OnLive, back when I had a computer that couldn't have hoped to play Just Cause 2 on the very lowest settings, and it was surreal playing something like that on that old computer and having it look better than anything else it had run and actually playing pretty smoothly. So I can see how remote streaming with Moonlight might actually be viable.