Not that I care a whit about consoles, but this basically sums up why "executive" is the keyword in this story. If this were a story about there being substantial consensus among people on the tech end of things that, within 5-10 years, game streaming would be the new normal, I'd consider it worthwhile news.

When it comes from an 'executive', however, you gotta bear in mind that you're dealing with some pointy-haired MBA whose only purpose in life is to get quarterly earnings reports to look good to shareholders. He'd be just as happy doing it for Wal-Mart, or Amazon, or Domino's Pizza as he would Ubisoft, and probably knows about as much about the product as your grandma who keeps opening those Nigerian prince emails.

Ah okay. Hmm. A NUC motherboard with a slot for that GPU, granted that motherboard would have to have a spot for the GPU off the Hades and of course in a hypothetical scenario where they would sell the GPU on its own. However, even NUC motherboards are expensive right now on their own and of course, there is no way they would sell that GPU on its own unless I'm missing something.

fair enough

Signs, signs everywhere.. ; )

What I'm really afraid is, this solution can be easily pushed in the very next few years. The first big step to this direction was Windows 10 I believe. Some complained, some were looking forward, some even left MS OS but in general, MS won the battle. Even if may seem like their decisions are a bit chaotic, they may have a plan of some sort. I have no idea if Guillemot has any connections with MS, but that's not impossible. MS throwing money like a drunken sailor lately. Anyone remember rumors about MS plans to buy EA or Valve?
So far MS makes customers dependent on their services, pushing own solutions wherever they can, even for free. Xbox might be not leading platform yet, but MS selling games as cheap as chips most of time and throwing away game passes from their filthy sleeves. Will they start running out of money before achieving their goals?
I know, supposed to be more about ubi and game streaming but I think the subject is very expansive, not limited to gaming industry only. Look at us, many here (myself including) started gaming life when hard copies were the only way. Who'd have thought we'd move to digital distribution? Do we have any serious choice today? Personally I'm not using streaming services like Netfix or such, I'd rather find a way similar to GOG when discs become history. If there will be one in the future..
As I said, subject is not limited, we have already less and less control over the software and hardware (I'm thinking about leading programming languages). All of this, in a wider perspective may lead to Harrison Bergeron world.

The major issue is that cable companies don't want to spend the money to replace traditional lines with fiberoptics in large population areas with pre-existing outdated infrastructure in place. They want to continue to milk that for money, despite standard cable lines being much less efficient, less speedy, yada yada yada. The irony here is, countries that don't have preexisting infrastructure in place are far more attractive to put down highspeed internet lines, specifically due to that fact. It's a lot like the highway/road situation in the US, everyone complains about how bad it's becoming, but no one wants to spend the money to improve or replace it.

It's also making small towns that don't have a lot of cable lines ran to begin with, be the focal point of fiberoptics lines, because of the reasons I've stated above. Hopefully, some of the smaller, more agile companies come to see it as an opportunity to exploit Time Warner's and Comcast's unwillingness to spend money as a chance for them to steal marketshare. Otherwise, these large corps will continue to not be prepared for 4k, and the inevitable higher resolutions that will follow, and in that void, hardware manufacturers will step in. So, I agree with a lot of what you're saying.

It's also why streaming won't have any realistic market penetration in the US until those factors are fixed.

My opinions on Ubisoft are fuck 'em. They've become out of touch with their market, and release mainly tired crap anyway.

The Vega24 is integrated onto the chip, so it can't be sold separately- and a standalone card would likely be more expensive than their Polaris based 570 anyway so yeah, not going to sell it separately. 7nm might make it more economic.

In the Hades canyon? I thought it was separate. Like a MXM card or a laptop gpu. Maybe MXM and the laptop gpu are the same thing.

This is worring, expecially because many people would simply adapt to this s**t.
I already can't stand movie and music streaming..
This would mean no more DRM-free, offline SP, old games and modding..
Also, this will probably require a monthly subscription (for each service?).