Microsoft has a bleak outlook on cloud gaming's future

Microsoft's recent filings with the UK market regulator show a distinct lack of optimism about game streaming.

into the company's purchase of Activision Blizzard. It turns out that, away from the marketing for Microsoft's xCloud game streaming service, the company's outlook on cloud gaming is pretty bleak, at least for the short term.

It's a marked difference from the company's bullish public stance on its own xCloud streaming service. At an E3 event three years ago,and touted the service with characteristic enthusiasm, but it seems that Microsoft privately has far more muted expectations both for xCloud and game streaming as a whole.

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