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DECISIONS AND OUTCOMES One of the reasons porting games to Stadia was slow was Google’s decision to program games in Linux instead of C, the language used by Sony and Microsoft. "If you wanted to make a game work on Google Stadia, you had to write it in Linux," says Pachter. "Let’s sav it costs 5 million bucks. Why would you spend 5 million bucks writing a game for an audi- ence of two people?" As one of the world’s wealthiest companies, Google paid or persuaded companies to overlook those costs. EA released Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on Stadia in November 2020. Other heavy hitters, including Rockstar, Ubisoft, and Capcom, also pub- lished Stadia games. Google also opened in-house studios, hiring Electronic Arts’ widely admired group general manager Jade Raymond to run its newly formed games and entertainment division. I was skeptical because I had seen things like that before. – ED FRIES, FORMER HEAD OF MICROSOFT STUDIOS AND A MEMBER OF THE IGDA FOUNDATION BOARD They made headed deci keep this on build Stadia – MICHAEL PACHTER, WEDBUSH SECURITIES ALL THE RIGH Having seen sever missed Stadia as de prised them with hired Phil Harriso played a key role it run Stadia. Harris star players such