Comment by genxy

12 hours ago

Youtube comes with "free 1080p" infinite streaming and it makes double digit billions a year.

You can't be interrupted with ads every few minutes when gaming.

  • You absolutely could though. They could just pause the game in a solo game or detect you are in between matches in a multiplayer game.

File serving is cheap vs rendering a game. A single core can serve many video streams but may be insufficient to run even one game.