The Google TV Streamer is one of the best and most surprising Google products launched this year. It’s Google’s first non-Chromecast streaming product (the Nexus Q doesn’t count), and it incorporates features you don’t find in many other streamers, including access to Google Home controls and working as a Thread border router. During my Google TV Streamer review, I fell in love with how speedy, simple, and powerful the device is.
One thing the streamer does not explicitly do is operate as a gaming machine. However, it runs on the Android TV platform, meaning it at least has the capability of both on-device gaming and game streaming too. This, of course, begets the question: Is the Google TV Streamer any good for gaming?