This should be game streaming’s moment. It's not | Opinion

Earlier this week, there was a ripple of excitement among long-suffering Xbox fans over news that the platform had struck an exclusive deal for the streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto VI – suggesting that while the game would launch on both PlayStation and Xbox, Microsoft’s Xcloud service would be the only place you could stream it, at least initially. That turns out not to be true. Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball debunked the report, stating that “the game will not be streaming exclusively or to PC” – suggesting that not only will GTA 6 be available to stream…