I predicted July 2022 when it was announced, off by a couple months :)
Google is shutting down Stadia
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#892Just 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
Even worse, there are developers with games due to come out in a few weeks or months who are just hearing about this from the articles.
https://twitter.com/sfbtom/status/1575558078367690752?s=21&t...
https://twitter.com/burgerbecky/status/1575585277594066945?s...
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#893Everybody is talking about how terrible Google and their culture is, so I'll just put it out there that this is great news for gamers. Cloud-based gaming services are a terrible deal for gamers. Gamers shouldn't cede so much control to some 3rd party who will be watching over their shoulder and collecting every scrap of data on them and their friends while they play. We don't need our performance in games being used…
How is a terrible deal? I would literally need to spend at least a 1000 dollars for a gaming pc, and that is 4 years of GeForce now, without considering maintenance, the space, etc. I’m playing cyberpunk 2077 max settings on a 2cm thick MacBook Pro, I don’t have a bulky pc to move every time I move, and most importantly, if I ever get bored I’ll simply stop paying instead of having a pc collecting dust
>How is a terrible deal?
you got the answer to that right in the title.
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#894Anyone has their numbers? With this mass refund, I believe it is the biggest financial failure in the history of the videogame industry.
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#895Earlier quoted context omitted.
So that was a lie
I doubt the social media guy even knew. They were posting promotional tweets just 2 days ago. Source: https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1574790973443522566
Why would s/he? S/he is prob. 10 levels below the actual decision maker and sometimes is not even a fulltime employee.
Re: Google is shutting down Stadia
#896Just 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
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#897Just 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
This is what drives my hesitancy toward subscribing any Google paid product. The company is very short-term focused and fickle on measuring the success of a product. They have the cash to throw at new problems, but they lack the stamina for any of their products to weather-out a storm. Google itself has the reputational problem of being weak on product longterm visions; that makes it a non-starter for buying into the…
It’s amazing since, ever since I stopped using any Google product, nothing I use has shut down any more.
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#898Who else has noticed that when an HN post reaches critical mass, people mostly just reply to the first comment and don't see anything beneath? (even if there are other very worthy top-level comments). Anyone have a good idea for how to remedy this? Or do you feel like it's a feature not a bug?
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#899At what point does working for Google (on anything released after 2008) go from being prestigious to embarrassing?
You're being downvoted, and I have no idea why. It is embarrassing. It's not just embarrassing, it's fucking embarrassing. Google Stadia could have been enormously successful. What killed it? The same thing killing all manner of innovation in this country - poor broadband Internet service. But... oh God, if only... if only Google had something they could use... something they could do to solve this problem!? Oh... wa…
>If Google had been willing to sacrifice some of their profits for the past 12 years
Sad thing is they did not even have to do that. all they had to do was put some lobbying effort in empowering municipalities to do their own broadband and the rest would take care of itself. ISP monopolies have been kneecapping municipal broadband effort right and left and just some push from otherside would have cleared up the way for some competition. But they did not, as you said, its classic short term thinking and 'not my problem' syndrome. What really troubles me is that Google & FB have sucked up almost all of ad market but none of that revenue is trickling back into society except for these 'promotion packet' side hustles.
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#900Really unfortunate, and I think Google is making a long term mistake here. Stadia worked extremely well for me and some friends who all basically didn't want to invest in a gaming tower. I had a theory though, that if you were a serious gamer, you probably stream or do a bunch of other things on your computer. As the serious gamer would need a reasonable GPU either way to accomplish this, the benefits of Stadia didn'…
> they should have worked on something that could stream directly to youtube gaming
This is actually one of the two supported streaming modes, see https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9825342?hl=en.