

Searching for Stadia is a short series intended to shine a spotlight on what made Google Stadia special in the wake of its upcoming shutdown and compare those traits against the ever-widening market of cloud gaming subscriptions.įor all of the things that Stadia tried to be - a bold new way to play games, a social platform, and a framework for new ideas in gaming - there’s one moniker that Google actively avoided.

Out of all of the current game streaming services, Xbox Game Pass is the one most likely to succeed in all the ways that Stadia failed, but Microsoft still has a lot of catching up to do.
