It's easy to say this now that they've shitcanned it, but this product was doomed from the start. They simply did not have a market. The people who care enough

It's easy to say this now that they've shitcanned it, but this product was doomed from the start. They simply did not have a market. The people who care enough to play AAA games are the kind of people who already have PCs or consoles, and the notion of paying a subscription fee on top of the actual cost of games is astoundingly stupid. You buy a game and decide to stop paying and suddenly you can no longer play that game (at least in the fidelity you originally played it). It's such a non starter and I've been saying it for years. For having so many smart people working for them, Google sure makes some absolutely braindead decisions. They lost hundreds of millions if not billions thanks to their own hubris.