The future of video games was supposed to be in the cloud. Forget the bulky console beneath your television, Google told us way back in (checks notes) 2019, all you need is a controller and an internet connection, and it would stream games right to whatever device you happen to be playing on.
The product was Google Stadia, and following the launch Google signed up a number of the world’s biggest publishers to offer their games on the platform, including series, and EA, the company responsible for .