Your 1st sentence is furthest from accurate. (IMO)
The lack of inter-corporate collusion needed to actually pull that off is evidenced by the drawer-slam ending of the vid above.
TERRIFYINGLY ACCURATE SATIRE:
Google: "We'd love RDR2 on Stadia!"
Take-Two: "Do we need to do anything?"
Google: "Oh, fuck yes you do."
Take-Two: "Fuck you, fund our port."
Google: "Okay."
Take-Two: "Is this a subscription thing? How else do we get paid?"
Google: "We have no clue at all."
Take-Two: "Then full retail. Why the fuck not?"
Google: "Yeah sure whatever, we'll figure it out by year five."
Other than greed I don’t see why there has to be profit sharing or licensing as long as the player has concrete proof of game purchase. It’s basically a “cloud console”.
The stupid greedy corporate fucks are strangling the golden goose, as cloud gaming could attract a more people to their product without having to buy hardware from a 3rd party
I mean, do you think streaming sites would be as big as they are now if their business model was ‘pay $10 per month so that you could keep watching only the movies that you paid full new retail price for’