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.

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.