Google has announced it is shutting down its Stadia cloud gaming service

[CelestialRequiem 5,135]

When I was doing the Google certification course for Project Management, they had someone from the Stadia division talking about risk identification and I couldn't stop laughing. 

[Rick_Sanchez 3,331]

This is quite a failure but gotta give props to google for giving everyone who bought one and bought anything on the service a refund. 

[Rick_Sanchez 3,331]

13 minutes ago, Xugoshi said:

Good riddance! Now if only NFT's could disappear as well then we'd have ourselves an early christmas!😭

not to mention live service games!

[DavySuicide 472]

It's a good day for us gamers. This gives me hope, that future streaming projects will be warned. I love to collect games and streaming games is the worst thing i can imagine as a gamer. 

 

Also, what happens with purchased consoles and games. You won't be able to use them at all in the future i guess?

[HuntingFever 9,677]

Just now, DavySuicide said:

It's a good day for us gamers. This gives me hope, that future streaming projects will be warned. I love to collect games and streaming games is the worst thing i can imagine as a gamer. 

 

Also, what happens with purchased consoles and games. You won't be able to use them at all in the future i guess?

They'll be museum and collector's pieces for people with more money than sense.

[MaxieM0us3 3,198]

2 minutes ago, HuntingFever said:

They'll be museum and collector's pieces for people with more money than sense.

 

Yet there is no physical. Only the controller as collection. 😂

[AbOo-92-OoD 15]

Who thought that famous for canceling projects cancel another projects. 

[MiahMamoon 37]

51 minutes ago, MadEdders95 said:

Bet all 7 people who bought one will be devastated 

im one of the 7 and yes im am im punching air right now 😂😂

[Ghost-Zeus514 195]

ripbozo 🤣

You won't be missed

[SnowxSakura 6,892]

Not really surprising, forgot stadia even existed just a few months after it launched. This just goes to show that physical copies are still king. Even digital downloads is still better than this

[MaxieM0us3 3,198]

Nobody saw it coming! /s

[Dantes_994 7,641]

Gosh darnit

[Nebnit 117]

43 minutes ago, Afro_Gear said:

This is why I buy physical. Have fun playing your digital only games when the platform servers get shut down. I get the convenience, but the ability to play indefinitely and to be able to resell my games make physical games so much more valuable to me.

 

Digital is practical to players who jump from one game to the next, without hardly touching most of them, until they find one they really like. I stopped filling up my cabinet with physical games once I realized they'll just be a playground for dust mites and baby spiders.

[DFizzlio 7]

A google project failing after 3 years on the market? That's the least surprising thing I've ever seen lmao

[The Alchemist 1,565]

The saddest thing about this whole ordeal is that I won't be able to get a good chuckle out of the delusional takes from the weirdo cultists who frequent the Stadia subreddit anymore, because they'll probably never be seen or heard from ever again 🤣

 

Call me selfish, but I'm absolutely delighted (and not at all surprised) by this news. Cloud gaming is the devil as far as I'm concerned. Physical forever!

[Jamescush147 15,349]

I thought they did this months ago. 😕

[ZenaxPure 108]

1 hour ago, Afro_Gear said:

Edit: I see they are refunding hardware and software purchases. Real classy move that they have no obligation to do. 

 

I am sure they just don't want to rock the digital ownership boat. Cause eventually one of these platforms is going to implode at such a level that the government gets involved which none of these companies want.

[Sendai-Horatio 887]

I've got an entire set of all the physical releases on Stadia that are going to be worth a ton in a few years.

[Nightstream88 1,315]

And also shortly after Babylon's Fall Shutdown announcement.
Wonder what is next on the list?

[Lance_87 2,526]

36 minutes ago, Nightstream88 said:

And also shortly after Babylon's Fall Shutdown announcement.
Wonder what is next on the list?

 

My bet is on "no more major updates for GTA Definitive Trilogy"...

[Sendai-Horatio 887]

38 minutes ago, Nightstream88 said:

And also shortly after Babylon's Fall Shutdown announcement.
Wonder what is next on the list?

I'm going to guess that a shitload of Activision related stuff may be next, Microsoft buyout and having stuff tied to Battle.net is going to require a major correction.

 

 

 

[RadiantFlamberge 3,677]

No surprise (wait, that's a lie... I am surprised it didn't get the axe sooner), and no big loss. I'd rather play my games client-side instead of streaming them anyway.

[enaysoft 7,129]

Google Stadia! Nostalgic man!

 

It's honestly a bit like the Ouya!

 

I had completely forgotten about its existence, until that is, the closure announcement, and then I remembered...

 

Amusing it's still "not available in my country" (Japan)

 

So I never got to experience how shit, erm I mean, how good it was.

 

Earlier than the prediction too!

 

http://stadiacountdown.com/

 

 

Edited September 30, 2022 by enaysoft

[iriihutoR84 885]

I only used the free trial but from a tech perspective it was "pretty good". Input lag wasn't really noticeable and I barely encountered any visual artifacting. That's the problem though, it was only almost as good as playing games on a real console. If I'm going to have zero ownership over something and rely on a company notorious for shutting down services to even be allowed to play my games then it has to be either better or significantly cheaper, preferably both. It's absolute madness that they charged full retail price to purchase games on the service. 

 

An inferior experience compared to last gen Xbox or PS consoles, higher software prices and no ownership whatsoever. What could go wrong?

 

[majob 1,450]

Microsoft's claim of not seeing Sony and Nintendo as competition but Google and Amazon just got more flimsy.