Here's what people are getting wrong about game streaming:
I've noticed an image travelling around whenever we talk about game streaming, whether it's with Project xCloud, Google Stadia, or whatever unnamed services we have yet to see. You see it in presentations, and it was the main way that Microsoft was showing off Project xCloud at its showcase at E3: a full controller with a stand attached to it, playing a AAA game on a phone. We see this a lot because it creates some dissonance: look at this! It seems to say.
When streaming starts up in earnest, some players like me will likely be logging on to Stadia on their phones to go visit Xur in on the road, or things like that. Some people will no doubt be excited to play Assassin's Creed on a laptop. But that's not the main market here. The main market for streaming in the next few years will be people playing on their TVs like they're used to doing, just without local computing.
Streaming removes that barrier to entry for a huge portion of what you might consider lapsed console gamers--seems like a niche group, but it encompasses the majority of people I know around my age, particularly men. These aren't people who I imagine are going to spend a lot of time playing AAA games on their phones, for all those earlier reasons.
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