Its almost humorous at this point how many services they shut down. Starting to get worried about my google domains.
Google is shutting down Stadia
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#522Earlier quoted context omitted.
So that was a lie
What is the social media person supposed to say in this case? "we're working on a blog post about Stadia shutting down that'll be released in 2 months"? Even if Phil Harrison himself were the one running that Twitter account, he probably knew it was destined to shut down but didn't have anything official on when or the details of the shutdown.
"We're proud of our Stadia experience and we are working hard on projects for it." That would not be as misleading as we are not going anywhere.
Anyone who didn't think Stadia was going to shut down at least a year ago was either kind of inexperienced or being paid not to realize the obvious.
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#523Google's reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways. Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.
well said, literally it's getting old. no one trusts amazon/google/fb new ventures. atleast fb is going all in on vr
They are losing stupid amounts of money on VR (as part of the R&D thing) in the hope that people will use it for work. The awesome value of Oculus Quest 2 will probably never be seen again.
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#524At what point does working for Google (on anything released after 2008) go from being prestigious to embarrassing?
Well, we're still at the point where, for nearly everyone who worked on Google products between 2008 and now, it was financially lucrative and great for their resumes.
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#525Google's reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways. Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.
Super sincere question. > Google's reputation for not supporting things long term I didn't know Google had such a reputation. I mostly use drive and gmail, so it was fine to me. Does google really have such a reputation? Any place I can read more on this?
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#526For those of you who haven't tried it, it is the real deal. I've tried Xbox live, playstation streaming, etc. and Stadia's performance blows every single one out of the water. Even on 4g, performance is unbelievable. You don't even need hardware or any account. You can play destiny for free. It saddens me that this is going away but like most people, I'm not surprised. I just hope that the technology doesn't go to wa…
Hopefully Valve,Sony, or Microsoft acquires the tech.
it's gonna be spun off into Google Stream the white label service. you can find the Resident Evil demo online for free that uses this, I think it's still live.
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#527This is laughable.
Hahahahahahah
Google has degraded so badly in those years, its consumer product is officially a joke.
When is Pixel going to die, emm?
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#528I'm surprised. It seemed like a solid platform. Why can't Google build a business that just works and grows organically without having to completely dominate a field?
Re: Google is shutting down Stadia
#529Google's reputation for not supporting things long term is finally starting to affect them in noticeable ways. Developers didn't onboard because they were afraid it would get shut down. It got shut down because no one onboarded.
This is keeping me from looking seriously at Flutter tbh. Go is safe, it has a community and ecosystem outside of Google, Flutter doesn't seem to be there yet.
Yes, and even worse, the nature of Flutter means its utility is especially vulnerable to abandonment. If Go were abandoned you could at least maintain your Go applications indefinitely, but since Flutter relies on its own UI engine it requires perpetual development to stay in sync with the evolving UI design language of iOS and Android.
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#530It was a mistake to get involved with game streaming to begin with. It was never about the players, it was "everybody else is developing a game streaming platform so we should too". In the last weeks there have been multiple streaming handhelds announce which leaves me wondering... "are there product managers who believe everything they see on TV?" Most of the fun of a portable game console is using it on the bus, as…
I actually am bought into game streaming. I subscribe to both MS and Nvidia. I travel a lot and not needing a console or gaming laptop rocks. Most of my gaming is from the hotel or Airbnb, so the connection is not a problem. Even then Stadia was dead on arrival for me with a completely unattractive consumer proposition of having to subscribe but get no games (aside from some trash freebies) and having to rebuy games…
Stadia Pro subscription was optional, unless you consider 4k necessary. once you bought a game you could play it for free indefinitely at 1080p