It was always a strange sell, especially since you had more accommodating options like nVidias GeForce Now.
Google is shutting down Stadia
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#22Yup, 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?
Everyone based it on inaccurate predictions though, namely that it wouldn't work. It worked fantastic even for the most latency sensitive games.
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#24The main thing that initially got me excited with Stadia were the ideas around having much bigger shared gaming worlds enabled by google-scale cloud expertise.
Too bad that all it turned out to result in was video streaming optimisation.
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#25At what point does working for Google (on anything released after 2008) go from being prestigious to embarrassing?
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#26Unsurprising, as I knew it was going to shut down already as I said in 2021: [0]
>> I'm from the future. Stadia (was) a platform that tried to change gaming and replace consoles or gaming PCs by using the cloud to play games on any screen. Unfortunately, the gamers said no and ignored it. Then it shut itself down and went to the Google graveyard. [0]
This is the second time I have seen them shutdown as I already said this before: [1]
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#27Anyone here use Stadia? Not much of a gamer but very interested in the tech of cloud gaming.
I used it a bit. The performance was exceptional. I enjoyed playing Cyberpunk 2077 on my phone with a Razer Kishi controller. Although I'm not surprised Stadia struggled to find traction, I think this is mostly due to Google's ongoing struggle with entertainment branding, and despite this, I do agree with their sentiment that streaming is the inevitable future of mainstream gaming.
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#28This is a great example of why you can never trust PR statements. They outright lie. We're not working on X. We won't shut down Y. Bald faced lies.
Edit: Missed that they're doing refunds. That part's good.
EDIT2: Why I'm calling it a lie: These decisions are not made on a whim. They're made months if not years in advance. A public company making public statements about how you're not shutting something down while you're internally mapping out the shutdown process... that's a lie.
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#29Google need to open source and unlock the controllers - otherwise they just created a mountain of e-waste.
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#30Heh, 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] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276188 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32278402
"Yah, hear me now and believe me later."