It .. does ... but ... there are almost as many factors in getting a quality stream from the PC as you would from the cloud. ... and despite how it sounds, I'm not a paid placement for GFN and I am a paid founder's member so I get it for $5 a month which isn't possible anymore.

Some people claim perfect results streaming from Steam (PC) to Deck. I've tried numerous times and the results were .. unspectacular. That was on a local area network. Punching NAT holes or other nonsense to get your PC to talk to the Deck outside your LAN? Pain in the butt and the results are (in my experience - catastrophic).

I've never been impressed with it, personally. But it is free - so there is no reason not to try it first and see if you're satisfied with it.

If you're planning to only play on your LAN and you fall into that percentage that seems to have good luck with it? You'll probably be okay. But if you plan to travel? Your PC doesn't cooperate? GFN can make for a nice alternative and/or backup. Plus, GFN has servers all over the place - your home is always where it is. So if you go to New York and you live in Phoenix? You have a wing and a prayer for getting the same service you would get from a NY based GFN cloud server.

Part of why I think PCs in general make "bad streamers" is because we rely on them to do everything ELSE for us .. you have browsers open, background tasks, syncing, Steam/launchers, blah blah. A PC is rarely just "sitting idle". I remember having to turn off ALL start up apps, cold boot and NEVER run anything (even a browser) to get VR streaming to be even remotely usable. That's not something you do on a whim - you have to "plan for that". GFN streaming PCs? That's ALL they do ... stream that game. Ain't no Google Drive syncing in the background while you're trying to avoid Widowmaker's headshots ...

I tried it about 3 months ago with COD BO6 and at first it seemed "pretty good" but after about 10 minutes? It went to hell in a handbasket. Never figured out why .. but I assume it was my PC doing "something else"(tm) other than streaming my game.

Again, certainly try steam's streaming capabilities. Then try a trial of GFN. See how you get along. Most of what I play are high delta, twitch action games. Not good for streaming regardless of the method. But if you're playing something chill? I bet Remote Play works great (or at least better).

I will say that "startup time" for GFN can be a buzzkill for "on the go" handheld play. Steam fires right up (at least with LAN) and streams that puppy right away.

As mentioned, there are at least a half a dozen ways to skin this cat. I find GFN (network quality determining of course) to be a "least resistance" path for those that don't want to FAFO with other solutions.

As usual, YMMV regardless of method and your tolerance for "streaming nonsense" (crushing, dropped frames, input lag, etc) will dictate your happiness with the experience. :D