Google is closing down its Stadia cloud streaming service.

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AJUMP23 said:
We all knew this would happen from day one.

What will this guy go destroy next.

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Never knew this guy changes companies every 3 years.

Give him credit. He's a got a knack for 9 lives in gaming. Every time the product tanks when he's there, he bolts (or gets fired?) and another giant corporation gives him a job to help launch another product line.
 
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Oh that means I will get my money back. heh. I remember saying that is one thing we don't have to worry about with Google. They have always been good about that.
 
This is actually good for consumers that they're getting refunds. Most companies would probably not even do that much. A lot of us knew this was coming
 
didnt they like announce last week that its coming to new gaming monitors as well and oleds ??

at least they are going to refund me
 
brian0057 said:
What!? Google killing yet another project that didn't live up to the hype?
Surely, you jest.
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Google has released some great products in it's time, hell, I tried Stadia and thought it was ok, for what it was, it worked well, but it just doesn't have a place in my house as I'd still rather play on native hardware. But the tech was there, just not great timing. The market for them would almost certainly have been households that can't afford the native hardware, and I'd bet that most of the people that fall into that category don't live in areas that have the infrastructure to make that a good experience.
 
If google refunds everything, hardware and software, i don't how anyone can see this as anything less than a win for the users.
If they don't know how to waste money next tell them i have a virtual bridge to sell
 
Well, at least Google countered the argument that you can lose everything you purchased in cloud. I can't believe they are giving everybody's money back. I did not get anything back when OnLive went under. I wonder if the refund is feasible because perhaps the player base was very small?
 
Stadia got things wrong from the get-go, and even if it was cloud gaming and not console, it stepped into the space of the big three, and competing against Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft in this space is absurdly difficult.

The only way Stadia was gonna work is if it was free-to-try and had a few major studios under its umbrella that could produce exclusive games that were worth trying the service for.
 
Sorcerer said:
Well, at least Google countered the argument that you can lose everything you purchased in cloud. I can't believe they are giving everybody's money back. I did not get anything back when OnLive went under. I wonder if the refund is feasible because perhaps the player base was very small?
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Possibly but Google has refunded stuff in the past when they have shutdown services. I got refunded the coupon I got from Google Offers and they refunded it (even for those who had used theirs, and I had used mine). I think there was a time line kinda thing, like if you had bought it within the last 2 years or so but I cannot confirm this for sure. In this case, the cost of refunding was probably better compared to whatever other situation they could face.....they made the right call but they are still a business after all.
 
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We've predicted this from the moment they announce that this was a cloud service. If Google actually came in with a console they might have a better chance.
 
Shutting down, and refunding all purchases ever made on the platform. Damn.
 
legacy24 said:
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Yeah, this has to be the biggest financial blunder in gaming history. Gat damn.

DeepEnigma said:
So RDR2 got tens of millions on top of 50+million in sales, and those cunts can't be fucked with a PS5/XSX patch, or a 60fps patch at the very least for console gamers.

Take 2/R* man, I swear.
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Yeah, it's an entirely different company these days. I have not much faith in the single player side of GTA VI. I'll happily eat crow though if it is still good.
 
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legacy24 said:
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The heads running Stadia have misread what players want and they overestimated cloud interest.

People like Ubi and Rockstar knew there was no audience on Stadia and required massive incentives to put any sort of work into putting games on Stadia.
 
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