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Google is shutting down Stadia
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#12Anyone here use Stadia? Not much of a gamer but very interested in the tech of cloud gaming.
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#13What a shame. The technology was fantastic. Good news about all the refunds but still sad.
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#14Heh, the comments in this thread[1] are hilarious in hindsight.
>Stadia will exist by the end of the summer. You don’t have to believe me. Like I said feel free to come back to this thread in October.[2]
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#15Yup, that's exactly what everyone expected since the beginning. And that's why publishers were not very interested, because they always suspected that's what would happen. Why invest when Google will get bored and shut it down in a couple years?
I think there would have been more interest if they didn't launch with folks having to the purchase games instead of it just being a subscription plan like most were expecting. Of course, pure subscriptions came later, but that was an odd way to roll it out.
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#17You know it's gonna be bad news when you see a title like that.
I've always been bearish on game streaming because it's just not practically, physically possible to solve the problem of input lag. Even an extra 10ms is going to be noticeable and unacceptable for many games.
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#18Direct from the horse's mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022775
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#19https://killedbygoogle.com/ does not confirm it. EDIT: it appeared now. This is confirmed.
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#20While inevitable, I am impressed they are refunding all purchases, including hardware. That can't be cheap.
I'm really curious the calculation here. That's a lot of money, and I'm certainly glad they're doing it, but feels both out of character for Google, and I'm surprised they have the budget allocated to just "doing the right thing". What goodwill is this saving that they aren't burning by shutting down Stadia?
I think it saves a ton of goodwill. Yes, you’re taking a platform from people, but it’s much better to not take their money too. Nobody is losing their livelihood, it’s a gaming service that can easily be replaced.