Google Stadia was never important and never stood a chance.

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Google had lofty goals for its cloud gaming platform,

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but those objectives were never realised. Google will shut it off soon.

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As of early next year, Google's Stadia cloud gaming service would be shutting down,

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as confirmed by the company. When Stadia first debuted, Google spoke about

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its lofty intentions, but it never really presented a threat to reputable

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companies like Sony and Microsoft. Stadia has never had much of a chance

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due to Google's fundamental lack of devotion to anything but its main source of income, digital advertising.

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Tua Tagovailoa, the Miami Dolphins quarterback, injury

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