No one could have seen this coming. Google has never killed something that didn't meet their expectations before. /s
This should be in the OP:
Stadia isn't quite done. The Stadia tech could still succeed. By many accounts, Stadia runs games great. But as a game-maker, Google appears to have packed it in. Said one source familiar with Stadia's first-party operations, citing another tech giant's widely publicized failure to create video games: "Google was a terrible place to make games. Imagine Amazon, but under-resourced."
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The company plans to begin offering its Stadia tech to publishers, opening up the possibility for Stadia to become the streaming tech for other video game companies.
Ten Cent lurking in the cornersAnd this is the big scary competitor MS is preparing to fight against in the future?
Amazon and google both tried and failed hard so far.
Phil Spencer must be happy today.
Did anyone think it would happen so quickly? Seems a bit early in the game to back out when the tech is so good. Unless they never really had a long term road map for Stadia.
Remember when people here staunchly refused to believe Stadia was no different?Yep, that sounds like the result another project of Googles alright.
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I'm sure she was very well compensated for her time.
Did anyone think it would happen so quickly? Seems a bit early in the game to back out when the tech is so good. Unless they never really had a long term road map for Stadia.
Stadia isn't quite done. The Stadia tech could still succeed. By many accounts, Stadia runs games great.
Building sentiment among consumers is much more difficult than just leveraging data and infrastructure.It baffles me how with the monopoly that they have in terms of Internet services with its own search engine and Youtube they managed to screw this up.