That’s it, it’s official: Google Stadia is dead. The Mountain View company announced the news, what about the users who still use the service?
Sad news for the video game industry… or not. Google just announced the death of Stadia, its streaming service, which never launched.
Closing Clap for Stadia
This is news that we hardly expected. Stadia will be gone on January 18, 2023. Google has in fact announced the end of its gaming service via the cloud, which never managed to find its audience. “Si Stadia’s approach is built on a strong technological foundation andle never got the hoped-for user buy-in. We made the difficult decision to phase out our streaming service.” we can read about the announcement in the blog post.
What about the few diehards who bought their games on it? Google has confirmed that ” All hardware purchases made on the Google Store and all games and DLCs on the Stadia Store will be refunded “Refunds for the majority of users are expected by mid-January 2023. Despite this bitter failure, Google is not giving up.”We remain deeply committed to games and will continue to invest in new tools, technologies and platforms that drive the success of developers, industry partners, customers and cloud builders. »
Things have been bad for Stadia from the start. The service has never been able to conquer the players, while the competition against a particularly aggressive Microsoft or an Nvidia with good arguments has become tougher. Internally, things didn’t look any better. In between studios closed overnight, lies, missed targets. And above all, Google’s habit of terminating its projects a few years after they were launched. So it was only a matter of time for Stadia.
