“Moving towards a play anywhere future is something Microsoft has already been doing for the last few years, long before xCloud was ever announced.”

So too has Sony even before Microsoft expressed similar interests. They’ve had Remote Play that works over the internet and have expanded it to non-PlayStation devices since April 2010. The functionality has grown since then.

PlayStation Now has also been made available on non-PlayStation devices as well.

Yet despite those advancements in streaming over the decade that nobody seems to give them credit for, Sony has made it very clear that they’re still primarily interested in gaming on hardware. That is the right mindset to have on this subject.

You can make all the progress you want as a company in the realm of streaming, but your primary audience will always be the traditional hardware based one for too many practical reasons.

If Google wanted to make a real console system with a disc drive, but without one they won't ever be a threat. Plus they'd need exclusive games and Android games won't do anything for gamers. So I doubt Microsoft has to worry about Google and their no exclusive games.

First I though title was funny. Then I remembered what Epic is doing. The only thing is with that kind of money, Google could start buying exclusive deals to their service/ store. Microsoft at the moment has a better deal than Google, but Sony has to step up it's game. I love my hardware, and I also love to award my favorite developers. But I'm too old for this sh. I'm not the target anymore. New teens are the target, and they want to play it all, on everything. My nephew loves Gamepass. I've seen it with my own eyes. The crap that he plays is… I don't know who will play Halo anymore.

Will google have the last of us 2, god of war, horizon zero dawn and many other highly rated exclusives?

The answer to that is a no. Playstation will wreck both Xbox and Google together.

I feel unless you like Sony, everyone else is wrong right?!

Sadly Microsoft never won against any competition so far. So why would that change?

This will never happen as Google will only this whole video game thing for like 6 months then give and delete everything like they have always done with their side ventures. Don't trust Google for anything else than search, YouTube, cloud storage and Gmail. They DON'T KNOW how to do anything else.

Here today, gone tomorrow. That's the Google way, think of all the projects they've started only to cancel them a few years later.

Stadia won't be around in 5 years if Googles tendency to shut things down after 4 years is any indication.

Only solution is to make Ultimate mega ultra momomomomonster game pass, which will include xbox game pass ultimate + xCloud, google stadia access, playstation now access, Geforce Now access, etc.... Otherwise, theres no chance I will subscribe for more services (now Im subscribed to ps+, ps music (spotify) and xbox ultimate).

No, Google lack games, especially exclusive. Microsoft has learnt a very expensive lesson in XBox One gan. Sony is still the leader in exclusive titles & MS is playing catchup in this. As far as we know now, Google doesn't have any exclusive title for Stadia. All of their focus is in the infrastructure, ease of use, etc, but no solid result in game development. Also, with Google's track record in how fast they killed their unsuccessful hardware, I don't think Stadia may even survive its 3 birthday.

had a good laugh that this article, I wish you could comment on articles a couple years later.

Well if MS ditches traditional consoles and focus on their play anywhere route (AKA game streaming) then Google will definitely be their main competitor.

This article is correct, both google and Microsoft will be competing for 3rd place.

i agree.
sony will be on a level so unreachable that peasants can only compete amongs themselves

I see Google winning the cloud streaming war without buying a console.

I would say Sony is still their biggest competition because Google does not have the content or a huge game fanbase to go against Microsoft right now like Sony does. Microsoft better start becoming more aggressive next gen with Sony or they will lose more market share to them next gen especially since they want to help them with the cloud. Im not liking how friendly Phil is with the competition at all right now its really irritating me. The 360 became popular because J Allard was aggressive with the competition not friendly.

Sony killed them in the home console competition.

Good let two crap competitors squall it off.

Yeah that's why after Stadia's announcment Sony teamed up with Microsoft pronto and now they both use Azure and Microsoft's data centers.

Just no. This travesty should never have launched in the first place. Streaming is not the future despite some people claiming to be. The Stadia is yet another example of this but the same people will rush to its defence again and again.

Yes. Stadia worked (not flawlessly, because some dark games were umplayable), but it worked in the "lag free" side thanks to the "exclusive" controllers.

Who? My condolences to her family if true...

I'm not sure it was even a thing for most people.

"IS STADIA DEAD"
it was DOA
Ouya welcome you to graveyard

It’s dead to me has been since day 1

lol the end

It should be, and Google wasted their time with this useless shit.

It’s honestly like the wnba. I go so long not hearing about it that I forget it exist until someone brings it up.

If you have to ask then you already have your answer

Some time ago. Google just didn't admit it.

How can you die if you never were alive?

Yes, and hopefully it will stay that way.

The more we can delay cloud-gaming from becoming the ''main thing'' the better.

It wasn't alive to become dead.

Was never alive lol

It was never alive.

The idea of Stadia is cool.

I dipped my toe in with Football Manager (before it came back to consoles).

But the horrible pricing for games which I already have, or can get on my console, meant it isn't going to gain much traction.

I see nobody read the article.

Stadia may be niche but isn't dead and it isn't going away any time soon. Especially as a service through Chromebook.

Is this even a question?

Gee. I wonder what the site StadiaDosage is going to say about Stadia...

Dead? Was it ever alive?

Biggest hunk of junk I ever bought!

Well if you have to ask…then…yea

Yeahh, DOA!

stadia was dead on release

The fact that so many are asking this question kinda tells you it is.

Probably on life support

As of now it is unofficially dead.

How is this still a question? Common knowledge, its been dead for a while now. Move on.

Was never alive. Their studios are dead though.

Was it ever alive?

This living-in-denile write-up had more time and $ invested into it than Stadia has over the last year. Um, yeah, unsurprisingly/predictably Stadia is like Ouya kind of done.

What's Stadia? :P

Its google graveyard material always was but it's also more complicated andonked to another failure of Google's it stank of retrofitting their failing and overpriced and unpopular cloud computing infrastructure. This article really stinks.of a fan trying to convince others not to give up on the ecosystem because they drank the cool aid and if stadia shuts down they will render their investments moot its unlike retro, pc or console gaming once a cloud only game company pulls the plug they take the ball and go home.

It was never a great idea rushed put 1 year prior to real next gen hardware with specs that were underwhelming. Unable to deliver on any promises and having zero exclusive games or reasons to buy in to the ecosystem the primary selling point was basically we can stream rdr2 which at the time 32 million players already played it on ps4/x1.

Google was saying we have the most powerful console on the market but we can't prove it so please just take our word for it. Oh and we will charge you way more than the competition like ge force now, psnow or xcloud.

It wrecked of retrofitting Google's failing cloud computer systems. And for me it read like we spent the last few years building cloud data centres globally however microsoft and Amazon have that market on lock and we are stuck with all this investment no one is buying into so let's just throw some gpus in and retrofit it for playing games build a cheap gaming overlay and buy some tech from Bethesda to slot in.

While I do think Stadia is dead, this idea and concept was the just the beginning. Just like other streaming services, I think it can become a legit way to play games, but we're not there yet.

Despite the perpetual declarations that Stadia is alive and well, as far as I'm concerned it's dead.

Until they change the business model copying GamePass, it still be. When they do, it's gonna be Microsoft vs Google in gaming, and Nintendo doing their own magic.