Stadia failed because it had huge issues with latency and video compression. Nvidia and Xbox are doing the same now and they do have people actually using it. The whole strategy from Microsoft is building a subscription gaming empire, both in software and hardware.
Stadia also had people, question is whether it becomes the majority.
They can and do drm their way to subscribing to the game content but still letting the end devices run the game. Cheaper for them compared to hosting, so long as they assure themselves that games can’t be cracked offline, but for multiplayer games they further control the online aspects.
Stadia failed because it had huge issues with latency and video compression. Nvidia and Xbox are doing the same now and they do have people actually using it. The whole strategy from Microsoft is building a subscription gaming empire, both in software and hardware.
Stadia also had people, question is whether it becomes the majority.
They can and do drm their way to subscribing to the game content but still letting the end devices run the game. Cheaper for them compared to hosting, so long as they assure themselves that games can’t be cracked offline, but for multiplayer games they further control the online aspects.