Microsoft is unhappy with the state of the Xbox (should Spencer be substituted?)

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SvennoJ said:

Same was said about streaming TV/movies in the early 2000's... vs Music streaming.

MS doesn't think it's years away, nor do 5G providers
https://www.tomsguide.com/features/5g-smartphone-gaming

Netflix taking off depended on getting rid of the middle man, the console or PC as streaming device. Gamepass/xCloud is in that stage of still being dependent on extra consumer hardware. That's what MS is working on, to get rid of the box in the middle and stream directly to your tv or phone. Project Keystone is the Roku stick. But MS is already negotiating with TV manufacturers to get xCloud on your TV, and is looking at getting it onto your mobile phone as well.

Sure, it means in addition to now. In 10 years the hardware (if still available) will be in addition to streaming. Maybe it will take a bit longer without the ActiBlizz deal going through, but it's coming. 

Dude I don't know if you read your own article but there's not a single positive word about mobile cloud gaming there, it's all negative. So I don't know why you linked it.

And your comparison to Netflix is just flaw. When Netflix launched their streaming service it grew super fast. Compare that to game streaming, we had several attempts since 2014. PS Now, Stadia, Geforce Now, they all went down the tubes. We have Amazon Luna which also looks to be a total flop.

The arguments you're making is the same arguments we seen the last 10 years and nothing has happened except all streaming attempts have flopped. For the next 10 years I expect Amazon Luna to be closed and Microsoft have launched Xcould as a stand-alone service but it will just flop like we seen before.

My own opinion is that cloud gaming makes 0 sense whatsoever on mobile phones, very little sense in the console space and some minor sense in the pc space. And corporations can try to change this but if there no demand for their service they can't do anything about it. But it's all speculation and cloud gaming discussion will probably go on forever.