> The trajectory is clear I'm afraid. Games will in the future be streamed from the cloud, so that there are neither assets nor logic to steal.
That is a good point but could it be also for the following reason; cloud streaming will be "encouraged" as hardware prices keep high and will encourage a monopoly on data centres to protect those hardware asset values?
Yes, stuff rarely is monocausal.
But just because there already is fuel, doesn't mean that one has to add even more to the fire