I'm not a big gamer but unlimited cloud gaming seemed too good to be true to me. It was a self defeating product offering for Microsoft.

It works perfectly on a fast home connection over ethernet, mind blowing how responsive it is and load times are non existent.

But as far as I can tell most people subscribe to game pass anyway? Why buy the hardware at all when I can just cloud game in the same subscription. .

I suspect if the threat of AI cloning pans out as some say, we may see a sharp return to streaming - perhaps devs releasing on streaming platforms only - as an ultimate form of anti-piracy