[text] DECISIONS AND OUTCOMES One of the reasons porting games to Stadia was slow was Googles decision to program games n Linux instead of Cs 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. Lets say 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 worlds 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 inhouse studios hiring Electronic Arts widely admired group general manager Jade Raymond to run its newly formed games and entertainment division. was skeptical because had seen things like that before. ED FRIES FORMER HEAD OF MICROSOFT STUDIOS AND A MEMBER OF THE IGDA FOUNDATION BOARD They made t headed decs keep this on build Stadia MICHAEL PACHTER WEDBUSH SECURITIES ALL THE RIGH Having seen sever missed Stadia as do prised them with hired Phil Harrisor played a key role ir run Stadia. Harris star players such