Stadia's Stumbles Are an Opportunity for NVIDIA's Gaming Efforts

Not so long ago, video games seemed to be on the verge of a revolution. With the games-as-a-service model already threatening the individual sales model, consoles and local copies of games seemed likely to be the next targets of cutting-edge tech: It was possible to imagine a future in which video games lived online and were streamed at home by gamers using relatively lightweight hardware without lots of local storage and other console-era necessities.

As tech companies have circled, Sony and (in particular) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have taken steps to ready themselves for a streaming video game future, but a bit of shine has come off of the concept in the past few months -- thanks in no small part to the decidedly lackluster run we've seen thus far from the Stadia video game service operated by Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google.

Stadia has botched things at every turn, from a marred launch to a recent dearth of information updates that has upset the fledgling platform's relatively small fan base. But Stadia isn't the only video game streaming platform that observers and investors have been keeping their eyes on. While its mistakes have dominated the streaming games discussion lately, it's worth remembering that there are other contenders for the "Netflix of games" crown -- including NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), which might just benefit from Stadia's mistakes.

Source Fool.com