[lumost]

If your going to make money on the backend via services then there is no point in cheaping out on hardware. You make money by having more customers, in a competitive marketplace this means that you need to be the best, a distant #2 won't make you anything once you start needing to offer incentives to both keep customers on your platform - and keep developers onboard.

[emodendroket]

The pitch is presumably that it's the cheapest way to play. In fact MS looks to be pretty interested in chasing that same streaming dream as Google Stadia and others are.