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Re:Brad Smith used Microsoft's $1B lobbying machine to win A... by ls612 on Sunday October 15, 2023 @11:03PM (#37895509)
Who cares about cloud gaming? I’m not trolling I’m serious I can’t see it becoming a real thing anytime soon, Google gave it a very good try and it flopped.
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Re:Brad Smith used Microsoft's $1B lobbying machine to win A... by asterfield on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:57AM (#37898533)
At least for me - I never took stadia seriously because google was always going to cancel it. There’s no point investing energy in new google products.

It may still be true that cloud gaming is not an interesting product, but google’s failure to enter it isn’t proof of that.

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Re:Brad Smith used Microsoft's $1B lobbying machine to win A... by nullindividual on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:21AM (#37899520)
The next XBox refresh is rumored to lack an optical drive. So you buy your games from the Microsoft Store. Or download them from the Microsoft Store with a Gamepass subscription.

That’s how you dominate “cloud” gaming— it becomes the only option you give customers to purchase games.

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