Other than that, the launch of Stadia went off without a hitch.īut the problems continued. The initial launch of Google's platform, billed as a Netflix-style video game streaming service, was underwhelming and plagued with Obamacare-like rollout issues, failed promises, underperforming adoption rates, and a paltry catalogue of games on the platform. The saga of Google's Stadia product has been long, winding, and mostly disappointing.