Basically death by lack of users, amateur marketing, and poor consumer sway. There wasn’t enough selling points for the Stadia to distinguish it from its competitors—the Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch and reception towards cloud gaming has been lukewarm at best. Most gamers are content with digital gaming, but I’m doubtful that they’d want to pay a subscription fee to stream games (that they don’t technically own) on their devices.

Though the Stadia went out with a silent sour fart, the Luna is still kicking though it isn’t nearly as popular as the competition. It’s arguably had a better run than its Google counterpart, but that’s not saying much as it’s a largely unknown peripheral within gaming spheres. The absence of a similar cloud gaming service has given it more leeway, but it still has Xbox Cloud Gaming to contend with that holds a stronger connection with the household than Amazon does with catering to gamers.

Luna’s gotten so good lately, I actually cancelled my GeForce Now subscription.

I’ve been aware of Luna for a while and dabbled with it here and there, but something changed recently, coincidentally right around the recent GamePass price hike (nice timing Amazon). The platform has seriously leveled up, especially with the ability to cloud stream select titles from GOG, Ubisoft, and EA that you already own. I’d love to see Epic Games join the mix next.

The growing libraries from Prime Gaming and Luna Prime are a solid bonus too.

There’s still room to grow (21:9 aspect ratio support would be a game changer!), but I’m genuinely excited to be along for the ride as Amazon continues to evolve this service.