Stadia doesn't run on fairy dust. It still uses CPUs & GPUs, and the more people use Stadia the more it will need. And since Stadia uses AMD GPUs I don't think AMD would be that sad about selling more super high margin enterprise GPUs to Google.

And of course you still need that local client to play it, which might as well be an AMD-powered ultrabook. At which point Stadia just resulted in AMD selling up to 3 products instead of just 1 (GPU & CPU in the server + APU in the laptop)

Stadia doesn’t target enthusiast gamers, I don’t know why people are trying to judge it on those merits.

Stadia is for the person who has 1hr every few days to play a game casually on the TV or 20 minutes during lunch.

It caters perfectly for the crowd of people who do not want to be locked to a specific device (gaming pc) or update their console/games.

The high static time cost of gaming in 2020 is what stadia mitigates.

And anyway. Stadia is powered by AMD underneath.

The verdict is out there. Reviews of Stadia haven't been flattering.

That's true for a very small group of cities with Google fibre.

Probably good only for Google employees who are forced to use Chromebooks.

The new OnLive? Nah

Good thing Stadia uses AMD GPUs then :)