Iāve been chasing the next big thing in gaming since the early 2010s, and by the end of last year I realized that the real shift was already happening. In 2026, the average gamer spends more than 20% of their playtime on titles streamed from the cloud rather than downloaded.
Last year, the first cloudābased mobile esports league dropped a 30āminute tournament that drew 12 million viewers worldwide. That number dwarfs the 3.5 million peak in 2023 for onādevice tournaments. donbet.
United Kingdom: When a game runs on your phone instead of a console, the line between device and experience blurs. In the past year, four major cloudāgaming servicesāGoogle Stadia, NVIDIA GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Amazon Lunaāhave each shipped a new version of their streaming stack…