Cloud Gaming Is Over, Right?

"I like the idea of cloud gaming. I think server-side games where heavy lifting is done in the back end and not in your devices is incredibly powerful," Stadia says. "But for this to work, you need people with a large group of people that have proclivity for games." The Venn diagram of how many people that satisfies was way too small, he adds. "[Google] went very hard on trying to monetize it early, which didn't give them time to actually develop an audience ... It's going to be a 15, 20-year-type thing, just like the metaverse," she writes.