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Skies darken for streaming as cloud gaming fails to take off

There have been plenty of attempts to lure gamers away from consoles to the cloud but it may be some time before it become the norm, writes Jonathan Keane

Sarah Bond, Xbox’s head of creator experience: said cloud gaming is a ‘feature’ and not yet a market unto itself

As Microsoft spent the summer months in legal skirmishes with US regulators over its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the future of the game industry was the subject of much debate.

In its lawsuit against Microsoft to prevent the acquisition, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said cloud gaming was an integral part of the tech giant’s games strategy.

Microsoft’s acquisition of the Call of Duty maker is “reasonably likely to substantially lessen competition or tend ...