Compare to https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/ and
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/cloud-gaming
Both have their own quirks, but they don't suffer from lack of games.
Both have their own quirks, but they don't suffer from lack of games.
Publishers changed their licence agreement to exclude streaming or cloud.
Since you are free to change the licence at anytime you like, they did. My bet is we will see white labelled streaming services from Blizzard and co.
We will have dozens of gaming streaming services, much like film streaming services...
And any way, NVIDIA is in no position to challenge the games industry on such things - they are very much in bed with them and would lose enormously if games suddenly all went for a big 'best on AMD' logo.
I think it's ridiculous that a publisher can prevent me from using my license on what is essentially rented cloud hardware. IP laws have come to stifle the very innovation they were supposed to protect.
I'm still not over the fact we are all buying licences instead of copies.
Now they smell money and opportunity to fleece a bigger company for higher fees. It happens all the time, unfortunately.
That‘s why it‘s pretty disappointing that stadia killed their first party studios. You have to produce your own content (like netflix) or at least partner with publishers to be exclusive or simple. This seems to be happening with Ubisoft.
But MS just has such a massive advantage with Gamepass.
Shadow does offer Windows VM‘s. It works pretty well, but it‘s also quite expensive and not really generally available.
To me, that put Stadia in an odd place where only the more casual players without a gaming device would sign up, or those with enough money to pay twice because they spend a lot of time away (but with good internet).