Cloud Gaming and AI Threaten to Make Home Consoles Extinct
THE SO WHAT
If cloud gaming really grows to a $38B market by 2035, the control point shifts from living-room hardware to GPU-rich, low-latency infrastructure and content IP. Studios and platforms should be planning for a world where distribution, personalization, and anti-cheat all run server-side with heavy AI assist.
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