Yeah, live service games are having their backend services emulated and made self-hostable. The future is going to be streamed games. Google may be digging stadia out of the trash soon.

Why would they do that? They shut down Stadia because they wanted all those GPUs so GCP could rent them out to higher paying, less annoying customers.

I'm no conspiracy theorist - but considering GPU and storage prices, I wonder if this is the end game. Nvidia has all but abandoned the consumer gaming market. If the AI bubble does pop, it remains to be seen if the manufacturing capacity will then go back to consumer hardware.