Two of DF's big sponsors I think are Nvidia and MS. Folks should not be surprised here... bought and paid for. This fact is not a point of contention... no manner how much sheep and fanboys try to shield DF by claiming the contrary (mostly out of partisan console war motivations.... god take pity on the truly deluded - pea brains). Remember paid online? Similar MO with media plants. The gaming/tech journalism industry exists for one thing first and foremost, and that is to promote the products that corporations make. Everything else is secondary in nature.
The goal is an industry where you own nothing, you dictate nothing in terms of the direction of the market or the choices in business policy yet consume like a slave with little significant alternatives to the dominant market players setting the agenda. Except of course the cloud future requires a coup e'ta, a change of the old guard (Sony and Nintendo) to the new comers, (Nvidia, Amazon, Google, and the eternal pest MS). That is the cloud future. That is the physical hardware less and physical medium for software less future, and that includes precious PC too btw... although of course, they will phase PC's out in a much slower fashion, after all daddy MS and Nvidia are huge PC stakeholders who love PC whales but you bet your savings the knife is coming too for "infinite preservation "open" platform".
Anyone that cheers for it while enjoying and being attracted/brought to gaming under the reign of the traditional model is out of their goddam mind and needs their head examined just for psychological study to untangle the crazy rationale that folks can come up with to justify their conditioning by corporations and their stooges whose sole goal is their bottom-line, not the health of an industry or any other nonsense as "the future". They don't dictate the future, only when you buy into it does that "future" become a "reality". They would love to kill consoles, except those pesky Japanese (Nintendo/Sony) are not onboard yet due to their own self-interest and reasons (they got the market for themselves already - they're not stupid). It's those pesky Japanese that hold combined roughly 250-270 million affluent gamers in their pocket from the G7. The product that has a hold on those 250-270 million consumers is called a video game console, and the model for software sales is called, and has become known as the traditional model - TRIED AND TRUE. Those cloud pushers do not have those 250-270 million affluent gaming consumers in their pocket, despite all their wealth and all their attempts to shape and bend the market, despite the puff pieces from sold out influencers (Media, VIP or otherwise) despite the "inevitability" of their predicted "future". Those cloud pushers continue to fail to attract those consumers to their "future" and "vision". Google failed spectacularly, and Nvidia is a fucking fart in the wind as far as their cloud push with GeForce Now is concerned.
You can tell how much these corps hate the traditional consoles by the fact that their cloud future is one where the hardware (server blade hardware composition) is owned by the corp, not the consumer. That server blade being a literal console (that is, the hardware with the processing power that runs the software as the output). You're offered less, and the hardware is outside consumer ownership and control. The goal is to offer less, and take in more (improved margins), not offer more, and take in less.
They know they can't compete and don't want to even try to compete in the console space so they don't do it directly but instead work at the seams to try to steer the industry in their direction. Only MS for obvious reasons aka Windows protection racket has tried to do so and struck Gold with Sony's once in a lifetime display of total ineptitude and incompetence (early PS2-PS3 transition and gen). The reward however is a bitter pill, cause MS has been bleeding ($$$) for it since the OG Xbox.
FUCK OFF! Overwhelming majority of gamers don't want your shit.
