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Exactly. Stadia being killed off and now Colab moving to a credit system is the final nail in the coffin for my trust with Google. Google is just an ad company

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  50% I think Stadia was just a matter of "me-tooism" on the part of Google. So many vendors rushed out cloud gaming products without any consideration if users wanted them. The other 50% is that it was a huge lost opportunity. Google Cloud has monster servers that can take a large number of GPUs, such a system could stream a complex world to 30+ users simultaneously. If you wanted to make something like the fictional Sword Art Online (just not deadly) that's the way to do it. Some people would say that games should be driven by story or gameplay, not technology. I don't disagree. But some great game developers have been technology first, such as Id games. Google is not going to win in terms of story, but they can win in technology and they should have given it a try. Even if game didn't work out the IP could have been licensed to somebody who could make the story work. But no, Stadia was ultimately meaningless.