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The stupid thing with Stadia is that every game you bought came with UNLIMITED FREE 1080p streaming.

They certainly made a loss on this guy but it is far from "stupid" from a consumer perspective.

Youtube comes with "free 1080p" infinite streaming and it makes double digit billions a year.

You can't be interrupted with ads every few minutes when gaming.

You aren't thinking big enough.

You absolutely could though. They could just pause the game in a solo game or detect you are in between matches in a multiplayer game.

i dont mean technically, i meant players won't accept it.

Product placement, quests, coupons, etc. Hell yeah you can.

Why not?

File serving is cheap vs rendering a game. A single core can serve many video streams but may be insufficient to run even one game.

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