Stadia was doomed to fail:

- You have to buy all the games all over again

- people, that are familiar with google ways, didn't want to invest anything into stadia

- stadia controller, while nice, didn't want with anything, but stadia until recently (still doesn't work with ATV for some reason)

- Google own devices didn't support Stadia for absolutely no reason (you could have side-loaded the app, and it worked just fine)

xCloud always felt much better than Stadia when playing.

Yes, but sometimes ideas come ahead of the infrastructure that would enable them, in this case fiber rollouts and geographically distributed data centers with GPUs. I've been really impressed by GeForce Now lately and XBox Cloud Gaming is a thing.

Didn't really fail, GeForce Now is still available and working well. Stadia was abandoned by Google but worked really well for the ones that had good internet and lived close enough to the data-centers.

The bad part is needing to live close to a big, expensive, GPU-heavy data-center, but if mobile GPU's are getting that good, maybe in the near future we could have single servers or small racks serving a few dozen to a few hundred players, that would be much easier to co-locate, grow as needed, and improve latency.

Yes and? Does that mean it can never be tried again?

If car makers gave up with EVs 30 years ago, and never tried improving, where would we be today? Because EVs are not the ICE replacement today, does that mean it won't be in 30 years' time?

All I'm saying is that the natural outcome for gaming is cloud + subscription. Maybe not the next xbox console, but possibly the one after next.

This was the inevitable outcome of music and video. Gaming is next.

We are going to own nothing and we will love it.

Only if you build it. Stop building it, and get those you know to stop contributing to that nonsense, and suddenly it doesn't happen.

That's collective action though. No one wants to do that.