https://onezero.medium.com/google-just-showed-us-the-future-of-gaming-37ccec59e2dd

Eric RavenscraftBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingMar 19Photo: Justin Sullivan/GettyOn Tuesday at GDC 2019, Google announced Stadia, a new game-streaming service that will let you play AAA video games — the industry’s blockbusters — on almost every device you own, including your laptop, phone, TV, or even a Chromecast. If it works as advertised — a big “if” — it could end the gaming hardware market as we know it.

With Stadia, which is slated to launch later this year, Google is aiming for nothing less than entirely detaching video games from the hardware you own. Instead of downloading a game to your computer or putting a disc in your console, the game would be installed on a remote server that Google owns and operates.