Google Stadia is a social cloud-gaming service that will deliver console-like quality via streaming Wi-Fi and 5G to your smartphone from the second half of 2019. This boosts the gaming phone market that has long held so much promise.

To put it another way -- Google Stadia is like Spotify for gamers.

Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Apple and others will be very worried.

The Stadia revolution could end the era of console hardware, finish the era of game cards (cartridges), and accelerate a painful "race to the bottom" on pricing for games.

Clients of our EDT (Techs) service can read our analysis of Stadia and its impact on gaming smartphones here.