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Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by JJMcJ »

ren_engineer wrote: post #411
vyrotek wrote: post #43

Just a couple of months ago. "Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro." https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656

Google needs to restructure their incentives before it wrecks the company. I have no doubt whoever launched Stadia got promoted and then bounced to a different product and didn't care about whether Stadia was a success long term. Google's ad money printer masks the rot underneath, Google is literally a meme at this point for shutting down products. No serious business or developer is going to trust them. If governmen…

> governments get serious about ad regulation

Or companies pull back on Internet advertising.

The unknown unknown is the creation of a new advertising method. I doubt that any newspaper in 1990 thought that this thing called the Internet was going to all but destroy their ad business within twenty years.

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by babypuncher »

It was clear to me that Google was completely unprepared to enter this market when their little display outside the big reveal was a Sega Dreamcast, NES Power Glove, and a copy of E.T. for Atari 2600. It was practically foreshadowing.

I wouldn't be surprised if that display was pitched as a joke, and some executive approved it knowing nothing about these products. They just saw "Sega", "Nintendo", and "Atari" logos, and loved their product launch being compared to these instantly recognizable titans of the video game industry.

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by babypuncher »

Hamuko wrote: post #150
jedberg wrote: post #40

Google'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.

I'd say the biggest effect was that consumers didn't trust Google to actually keep their purchases alive for more than two years. Techwise Stadia was actually very good and it could have been a good alternative to a full-blown gaming PC for people who are not gaming enthusiasts.

Well Google sure proved them wrong, they kept those purchases alive for nearly three years!

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by htrp »

ren_engineer wrote: post #411
vyrotek wrote: post #43

Just a couple of months ago. "Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro." https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656

Google needs to restructure their incentives before it wrecks the company. I have no doubt whoever launched Stadia got promoted and then bounced to a different product and didn't care about whether Stadia was a success long term. Google's ad money printer masks the rot underneath, Google is literally a meme at this point for shutting down products. No serious business or developer is going to trust them. If governmen…

working with the core ads platform, feels like one of the worst designed systems i have ever seen in my life.

definitely no innovation in that side of the business

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

Patrol8394 wrote: post #461

Google lacks of focus. They should take a close look at what company they want to be in the next decade and more. And yes, they should radically restructure their system of incentives. Clearly the one they have in place does not work. They have been all over the places, from cloud, finance, gaming, mobile, os, social, you name it. And most of their revenue still come from ads. Steve Jobs: “People think focus means sa…

>They have been all over the places, from cloud, finance, gaming, mobile, os, social, you name it. And most of their revenue still come from ads.

Telco, political machine, automotive, surveillance, more surveillance... and they made Flutter.

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by intrasight »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #139
jedberg wrote: post #40

Google'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.

Ironically, I bet if that Stadia would've done much better if it had launched with the promise of "if we do shut it down, we'll refund all your purchases"

"Google Stadia is a cloud gaming service whereby games can be purchased and played, but don't have to be downloaded to a console or PC."

This was a doomed business model because it blurred subscription and purchase. If it was subscription, there should have been no purchases (hardware or software) necessary. There are millions of people - myself included - who would pay for a subscription game service. Stadia was not that service.

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