Business Google is shutting down Stadia - Google is refunding all Stadia purchases — hardware, software, and DLC. Members of the Stadia team will be “carrying this work forward” in other departments at Google.

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Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023. Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as all the games and add-on content purchased from the Stadia store. Google expects those refunds will be completed in mid-January.

“A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia,” Stadia vice president and GM Phil Harrison said in a blog post. “And while Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.” Employees on the Stadia team will be distributed to other parts of the company.

Harrison says Google sees opportunities to apply Stadia’s technology to other parts of Google, like YouTube, Google Play, and its AR efforts, and the company also plans to “make it available to our industry partners, which aligns with where we see the future of gaming headed,” he wrote.

The writing has been on the wall for Stadia for a while now, most recently when Logitech announced its new cloud gaming handheld last week and Stadia was one of the few cloud gaming services not mentioned. But Stadia has been facing rumors of its demise practically from the start. Google has a habit of killing projects only a few years after they launch, and Stadia, a cloud gaming service from a company with few ties in the gaming industry, seemed like a prime candidate for an early demise.

Last year, rumors abounded it would shut down after the number of games released to the platform slowed and the company shuttered its in-house game development studios. When those rumors popped up again this year, Google insisted that Stadia was not shutting down. “Rest assured we’re always working bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro,” the company said in a tweet. Which was true... until today.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023 (Archive)
 
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At least there's now Game Pass and PlayStation Now.

Google should just stick to operating systems and applications. Amazon tried getting into gaming, that flopped.
 
SNEED.EXE said:
b-but stadiabros... we were supposed to win...
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I can't find it right now but there's a version of this meme where the "fun-havers" aren't replying because of the delay.

Another thing I can't find is the google ventures deathwatch website (not "isstadiadeadyet.com") (maybe it's because I'm googling), I want to know how good their prediction was.
 
Never forget the time Jacksepticeye even pretended to think that this would be a groundbreaking console


I still remember the time he pretended to actually think that this console was good.
 
Thomas Talus said:
The collapse of Western Civilization will happen when Google, for no obvious reason, announces that they are no longer supporting gmail starting tomorrow.
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Pretty much. The sole reason google even dominates email is because they tied it in to every other service.

You can litterally track when they shot past Outlook to when they forced everyone to have one for YouTube
 
Thomas Talus said:
The collapse of Western Civilization will happen when Google, for no obvious reason, announces that they are no longer supporting gmail starting tomorrow.
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I don't know. Lots of people still use Yahoo Mail (to the point that it's the only thing keeping Yahoo alive, as far as being the first major free email service) as their primary email account.
 
Hire me Google! I can achieve your CEOs workload much faster and more efficiently by simply sitting in my executive washroom and flushing money down the toilet!
 
At least Google is issuing refunds. I've seen other services shut down without such a recourse.
 
Stabmaster Arson II said:
The cloud has always been retarded. Even for its original use, data storage. Local, offline storage is 169% better for everything. The cloud just means it isn't your data.

Adding in lag for this use just makes it double retarded.
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A family memeber uses Adobe Illustrator for their work. They swear like a sailor over the whole cloud bullshit. It crashes at least three or four times a day. Plus they're not providing Pantone color matching anymore, because fuck printers.
 
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