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Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by Applejinx »

taurath wrote: post #520
ren_engineer wrote: post #411

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I agree wholeheartedly - I’m currently using google fi which hasn’t had an improvement of any real impact in over 3 years, and it still barely works on my iPhone. I suspect it will be shutting down soon - which is a shame, it was a fantastic idea but they launched and then promptly did nothing but let it slowly rot.

Hope not. I use that to barely have a cellphone service and not have to pay much when I don't really use it :)

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by Reason077 »

Hopefully this means they will release the streaming rights for PUBG, so it can finally come back to GeForce NOW?

Ever since they banned keyboard & mouse PUBG play (forcing you to use the game controller) I pretty much gave up on Stadia.

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by welcome_dragon »

stephc_int13 wrote: post #154

Streaming is not sexy for gamedevs. We all know that latency is going to suffer. I don't understand the pain point they are trying to solve for end-users. Gamers are used to buy shiny new hardware to run their games. This is again a case of a solution looking for a problem.

Have you tried it though? It's so much better than any other streaming game service from Xbox or PSN

When cyberpunk came out, it was crashing everywhere except the stadia version. I've rarely had performance issues with a stadia game, and even playing over 4g is pretty good.

The technology almost works like magic here.

Now if only there had been more games on it and if people didn't dismiss it before it even launched it MAY have had a shot (and I guess if Google didn't have a knack for killing off things).

I am fully convinced that stadia represents a good future for gaming, and as hardware costs go up with sinking bandwidth costs, I am sure the concept will come about again in a similar way.

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by polytely »

faefox wrote: post #242

Feels like the writing was on the wall almost as soon as they launched. It seems telling to me that Stadia couldn't get any traction even during one of the most protracted GPU shortages/crypto manias in history; connectivity requirements and lag issues aside, I think a lot of gamers just aren't interested in outsourcing the hardware side of things the way these corporations might expect. Building and maintaining your…

I think they might have made it if they went with a gamepass style service, pay a fee per month, get access to the full catalogue of games, you could even bundle it with youtube premium.

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by Reason077 »

This is a bit sad.

Stadia was pretty cool while it lasted. I was a Stadia subscriber for a while. Great technology, but (mostly) crappy games. The store was also pretty lame with just a huge list of (mainly B-list) titles, and no indication of whether something was good or not.

With a better game library and a better store, Stadia could be a winner. Shame they didn’t just partner with Steam!

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by rajnathani »

The top 4th and 7th comment on the Stadia launch post on HN sort of predicted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19432957

During those times I thought HN was being overly pessimistic as usual about a product being killed by Google, but now it is pretty understandable, especially as despite Google’s headstart that they were overtaken by Nvidia, Microsoft, and others in this space.

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by codyogden »

mrweasel wrote: post #144
sanxiyn wrote: post #16

https://killedbygoogle.com/

They sure do try out a lot of stuff. Google really need to do the reverse an create "productsbygoogle.com". Many of the products are pretty unknown, until they get publicity for being killed.

https://about.google/products/

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by solardev »

endtime wrote: post #418
solardev wrote: post #223

Google's product strategy.. Google: We're going to launch a fancy new product in an already-crowded field, not market it at all, and everyone will jump on board and love it! Everyone else: No way, it's a PITA to port to, and knowing Google, they're going to sunset it soon. Google: No we won't, we're fully dedicated to this thing Everyone else: No way, they haven't added meaningful features in years and they're going…

I mostly agree with you, but I downvoted your comment because > We devoted an entire month of resources to this project and thought that was enough! ...is not just wildly inaccurate, but also disrespectful to the people who spent years working on it.

Sorry, but as a player, I honestly can't tell where that effort went... feels like they abandoned it as soon as it launched.

Even at the time of its death, crossplay, cross save etc. didn't work except for a tiny handful of games. The Stadia Plus Chrome extension made a bunch of improvements on their own. There was never a desktop app. No ultra wide support. No RTX. Never got vsync working right.

In the years it was alive, what did they add? How come GeForce Now saw such activity and Stadia got... nothing? I wouldn't blame the people working on it, but some manager in Google really screwed that up.

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by unethical_ban »

As someone in the tech area and likes PC gaming, I know nothing about Stadia or GeForce Now, despite having a 3070 and a Shield.

Was stadia its own platform and hardware? I thought it was a way to say, play steam games over the net on an x11 session or something.

I'm not being silly, I really had no idea how the thing worked.

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