Keep in mind that I write all of this as someone who preordered the Stadia Founder?s Edition the moment it was up for pre-sale. I believe in the idea of Stadia. I believe that we?re on the precipice of a major change in the future of games. Stadia fundamentally solves a ton of the problems inherent to gaming on a console (updates, download/installation, being tethered to a single screen), but it introduces a number of difficulties of its own. Google has pieces of the answer in the same way that Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and the PC platforms all have their own unique pros and cons. In a perfect world" Google holds the keys to the streaming kingdom, but it needs to partner with the likes of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, rather than competing with them in order to convince players to adopt it. The reason I was so quick to adopt Stadia wasn?t the ability to buy ethereal full-priced games to play from the cloud on any screen. No, as a matter of fact, that part of Stadia is downright nerve-wracking to me. My PlayStation will always be the go-to place to purchase and download big releases for me, partly because I?m so ingrained in the ecosystem (thanks, Trophies?) and partly because I like the relative security of having a physical piece of hardware (even if my games have transitioned into a largely digital catalog. The reason I preordered Stadia was because of Destiny 2.

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