^ this.

Then it becomes the norm, and bidding wars break out between streaming services.
Then that + exclusive content, makes or breaks, some of these services.

You thought it was annouying to keep track of differnt accounts / passwords, and multiple game launchers?
Welcome to the same thing happending with game streaming.

If you end up haveing to own multiple $/month type active subscription services to stream games.....
Im just more and more inclined to say f*** that.

Just give me a normal pc or game console.

It could well be if this becomes the norm.
I could imagine all these services in bidding wars to keep stuff exclusives or off other services.

And I highly doubt most people would be willing to own and pay for more than 1 active game streaming service subscription at a time.

And people think I'm mad that I buy my music, movies, series and games. The complete balkanization of streaming services is rendering them more and more of a bad deal. The only service I have is Netflix (for now).

I'm beginning to agree with that. It seems to me that it's becoming more and more inevitable.

I think it's probably a little to early to celebrate, but yeah, fuck cloud gaming.

A lot of games on PS4 already have sections blocked off from streaming on the PS4 Twitch app. I assume it's the same for the X1 versions of those same games. Persona 5 was really bad about that. And I've seen a few Switch games that block screenshots and video on the Switch sharing app.

Yes MS is know for its rich catalogue of 1st party games, totally independent of 3rd parties for their console and Xcloud =p

The greed of those companies will pretty much destroy cloud gaming, or what it could've become. If that trend continues, exclusivity will become a norm and we'll be forced to pay well over $100 per month (and I'm being generous with this estimate) to enjoy AAA games, or any new games in that matter.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if, in the near future, games from those big publishers, would become stream platform exclusives. And THAT terrifies me as that'd mean end of consoles (and PC gaming), end of ownership, end of modding, end of cheap games, end of emulation and end of offline gaming.

I mean, we're already doing that with the media sector. It's likely to happen with the gaming sector, and we've also got it happening with the music sector as well. Pretty sure ebooks are following this trend slightly as well. Pretty much every facet of media is being split up and turned into sub fees. Sure it looks affordable to some, but really if you add all these subs, from every type of media, we're actually just paying more, and owning less of it.

I don't agree. Not every company has the capacity to deliver a worldwide infrastructure to support their games on the cloud. It is the same as thinking every company could have had the capacity to sell their own consoles for their exclusive games.

The problem lies on companies wanting their share of the cloud revenue. Capcom and Square Enix also removed their games from GFN. Nvidia will need to come with an agreement with developers if more companies decide that they will only allow their games on cloud services they authorize.

The only ones that can deliver robust cloud gaming infrastructure to the world are Google, MS and Amazon, maybe Valve.