Forget Google Stadia, This is the Cloud Gaming Battle to Watch

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google launched its cloud gaming platform Stadia last month, but it received a chilly reception from gamers. Earlier reviewers criticized its unstable gameplay and confusing business model, which required gamers to buy the individual games they wanted to play on Stadia.

That was a far cry from the "Netflix of games" many industry watchers had expected. Instead, it was basically a cloud-based locker for purchased games that ran on Google's servers. This approach seemed clumsy compared to Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass and Apple Arcade, which both granted gamers unlimited downloads from a large library of games for a flat monthly fee.

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