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They’re gonna turn Stadia back on. Who can afford personal graphics cards and memory these days?

Microsoft are raising prices on their own streaming platform, though: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-clo...

and putting time limits on the subscription. Not enough to complete a single player game in a month at the highest tier

Who can afford to service game streaming when those GPUs could be used for LLM inference / training?

Google. Famously, even. (Hint: TPUs)