Google Stadia has a lot of ‘last mile’ challenges

Google Stadia’s technology is probably going to work. I haven’t used it, but for whatever it’s worth, I thought that OnLive was good enough. And I’m sure that Google’s game-streaming service will work better than that now-defunct equivalent. But that doesn’t mean that Google Stadia is going to work.

The company debuted its gaming platform at the Game Developers Conference in March. And it answered a lot of questions about how it will work. It also avoided a number of other answers, like its business model. The reasons we don’t know how much it’s going to cost is probably because Google hasn’t even decided that yet. Its GDC presentation was all about getting game makers on board, and it’s probably going to have to still negotiate deals to actually make that happen.