This is undoubtedly one of the primary motivations underpinning investment in this area, and makes me quite wary of anything coming out of it. Is any of this "cloud gaming" being backed by a love of gaming itself? Doesn't feel like it.

I mean for Flight Simulator, it's several hundreds of TB of data stored on Azure servers for all the maps services - I do see the appeal, and it looks like MS is not charging past the initial fee. But this seems like a very fringe use-case, I don't see a lot of other applicable ones.