Microsoft’s Walmart partnership isn’t about retail — it’s about streaming

This sudden, extensive push toward streaming games to devices instead of running them from hardware paints a new vision of the possible future of gaming. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot even recently said that the next console generation would be the last, and that he thinks “streaming will become more accessible to many players and make it not necessary to have big hardware at home.” - Stefan Birrer, Phenix via VentureBeat [via/web:http://streaming-tv.us]