I Loved Google Stadia, Which Is Probably Why It Failed

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An apparently very small number of people around the world received some bad news this week — Google is shutting down its cloud-gaming service, Stadia, in January.

This was a real bummer for me (although Google is being good enough to provide refunds for everything people have bought from them on the platform). I loved Stadia! But, as I thought about what I liked about…