The handful of companies that can afford to spend $100M+? Sure. There are only so many of those, and plenty of them go bankrupt after spending that much.

Man, I feel ya there, I think I have Lenovo's entire 2015 enterprise portfolio. There's a channel called Hardware Haven on youtube and I realize I may have gone too far as whenever there's a new video on old tech released it's for something I already have in my basement.

Don't forget the latency. I can barely tolerate streaming between my PC and Deck witg Sunlight/Moonlight.

There's a lot of companies thinking about it that are big enough that they don't have to profit immediately. I think they're mostly waiting to see Geforce Now raise prices and enshittify more. My prediction is we'll have the various datacenter providers giving more deals on compute to make use of wasted cycles, maybe leading to various services renting that compute and dynamically tuning quality based on current cost. I.e., high performance gaming during off-peak hours and degraded performance during AI peak hours. Time limits will definitely become more frustrating.

Google might jump back in then if they didn't have to run the service. For them, I think they exited because they established that they'd have to actually support the product if they wanted it to grow and there is nothing they hate more. Part of me feels like the dystopian future we're heading to may be publisher based subscription passes similar to xbox game pass but more focused and providing drastically less value.

I think I'm out though, I don't have to buy a battlepass for the chickens and if support ends I get to make curry.

From experience, if you do, take a very long look at your neighbors. I almost ended up with what I now realize was suspiciously cheap land down the street from a cockfighting operation.

It's all consequential to me. Nothing is without rhyme or reason and it is all interconnected.