Phil Harrison shows the Stadia controller.

Will Google’s Stadia console kill mobile games?

Last month at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Google announced the launch of Stadia, a streaming service that removes consoles and GPUs from gaming and replaces them with smart TVs, tablets, phones, or any computer – literally anything with a browser (Chrome, of course) and an internet connection.

The obvious question for mobile developers is: Did Google just kill mobile games? While there are some unanswered questions, the answer is: most definitely not.

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