While it’s true that rivals like Geforce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming presented entrenched competition and that Google knows next to nothing about gaming, the main trouble — as with most of its products these days — is that no one trusted them to keep it alive longer than a year or two.I will admit to being a skeptic when they said they could hit the frame rates and response times they advertised, but by Jove they did it.There is now a great remembering of the much-mocked pre-launch hype display for Stadia: the doomed Dreamcast, pointless Power Glove and E.T.The console that tanked SEGA's hardware division A useless peripheral that was more successful as a meme than as a product And a game that was so badly received that truckloads of unsold copies were buried in a desert No clue where this is going but I'm intrigued #GoogleGDC19 pic.twitter.com/HOSKJNMXbb — Nibel (@Nibellion) March 19, 2019 Though it’s clear this was a hilarious misunderstanding of … just about everything, it turned out to be quite apropos.It will play and look better natively (though Stadia did look surprisingly good), and of course they’ve already invested hundreds into those platforms."