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Comment by marklar423 | Hacker News Reader

The Stadia tech was so much further ahead of others, it's such a waste it didn't get time to flourish. They could have really changed the paradigm if it had better management.

One example of an intriguing idea I heard discussed on a podcast - imagine you're watching a streamer on YouTube and think the game is cool. If it were integrated with Stadia then with one click, you could be playing the game! In browser! Maybe even playing with the streamer (for multiplayer)!

So much potential wasted...I can only shake my head.

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This idea was actually in the launch keynote! Along with a bunch of other cool ideas that never shipped.

Maybe someday someone will explain what went wrong.

My guess is that competitors were quicker to market than they expected, and had unique advantages (Microsoft owns windows and Xbox, nvidia owns … nvidia).

It's a cultural problem. Google fails to follow through after the initial shiny has worn off. In Google, you are rewarded for shipping not maintaining. That's why they have a gorillion messaging apps instead of one really good one. They weren't willing to commit the engineering time to implement those features because the interest wasn't there.

Then again, Stadia's streaming performance and graphical capabilities were subpar compared to established competing services like GeForce Now, Xcloud, and ShadowPC. If it were better it might have been worth it.

On which metric was Stadia inferior to xcloud?? GFN, I could understand, but Stadia would smoke XCloud

As I recall, my gripe with Stadia was the limited graphical capabilities. I don't recall if the graphics settings were locked but I remember only being able to play games on medium settings and not being able to achieve any better performance than a GTX 1080.

Meanwhile, your XCloud stream is hosted by an equivalent of an Xbox Series X, which while a console-level experience, the games were shinier and prettier than Stadia.

And otherwise I've found their streaming quality, performance, and latency, to be about equal (not the best) although XCloud continues to improve to this day.

Latency, total DRM, games completely disappear on whim of copyright owner, no modding.

Nope, I dont want this potential.

Good riddance.

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