https://stratechery.com/2022/google-kills-stadia-why-stadia-was-a-bad-product-microsoft-activision-and-antitrust/
Google Stadia is, predictably, dead: the company never had the business model to match. Microsoft is showing just how hard it is to get that business model off of the ground.
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