Google Stadia: 7 Reasons It's The Future Of Gaming (And 4 Reasons It's Not)

1. Longterm Game Preservation And History Will Be Impacted

As alluded to earlier, the game industry has a real problem with preserving titles. Whether it's because of a lack of backwards compatibility, video game licenses running out or servers being shut off, there's a huge chunk of releases that have simply been rendered unplayable, doomed to be forgotten as the indsutry as a whole moves forward.

There's been an attempt to remedy this through remasters and remakes, but even that robs the medium of its history, and the context in which these titles were originally released. On the surface, Stadia would be an excellent answer to this problem, as it could keep updating its library and provide a wealth of games to players from different consoles.

But what happens once Google shuts these servers down? Especially when it comes to the first-party titles released exclusively for the system, with no boxed, physical release those experiences will be restricted from future generations.

Tying everything to a license which can eventually disappear isn't the direction the industry should go as a whole, especially considering how poorly gaming's history has been preserved so far.