Google Stadia Is Shutting Down Its Game Studios, Impacting 150 People Including Jade Raymond

@Richardthe3rd: It is pitched to the market. Stadia is open to all third parties.

@Richardthe3rd: Google plus all over again

@naomha1: No, what gamers really like is convenience over anything else. When the PS4 and Xbox One launched you probably would have scoffed at the idea of either of them releasing an "all digital" console because "gamers like physical media". Yet we saw digital game sales grow to cover over 50% of all games sales and now both Sony and MS launched with all digital variants for the current gen. Digital is just more convenient, you throw your CC information on your box, download the game and you're ready in 30 minutes. No going to the store or waiting for packages, no having to wait for the game to install or patch on launch day and no worry about having to get up to switch discs or losing/damaging them. Cloud gaming is the next step for convenience. Now no downloads and you're not tethered to a single device.

When will cloud gaming catch on with the main stream? No one knows but it's a matter of when and not if.

@WarGreymon77: lol simp

@Strychnine: I'm 99.99% downloadable, no cap

@BassMan: Minus the pre-existing exclusives?

@ecurl143: It doesn't sound like anything is changing about the service itself. Only the game development studio that Google has created to make some games themselves is getting shut down. So nothing really changes at all for anyone, aside from maybe those folks who thought that Google was serious about getting into game development.

@Renunciation: didn't 2077 have like 8 million in preorders and made roughly $480 million, making it one of the most successful game preorders of all time?

Words are weird.

@Renunciation: PC version of CP2077 didn't have the issues and sold amazingly well. It was the Xbox One and PS4 that had most(not all) of the trouble.

@hardwenzen: Did no one read the articel or did Gamespot change it? Cause it clearly seems to state now that only Google's game development studio, which they probably mainly created for PR purposes, gets shut down. Stadia as a service remains exactly as it was and since that studio hasn't released anything yet as far as I'm aware nothing whatsoever has changed.

@letsgame82: It will never be 100% reliable. Sites and server go down all the time. Yes, there's nothing you can do about server issues. Even the best internet won't help you if the servers go down at launch because the developers messed up. And if Stadia was very in demand, then they would reach peak capacity during big game launches. Which means that you wouldn't get to play, or the connection would be shit. The only way to avoid that is by playing games on your own hardware without requiring an internet connection.

Sony already has issues with this with their crappy PS Now service. When I signed up for it for a month, or tested it for free, I had to wait in a queue for up to 15 mins or more at times just to be able to boot up RDR, the only game they had I cared to play. And I guess I was not the only one who wanted to play it at that time as it wasn't too long before RDR2's launch.

@letsgame82: Yep, the world as a whole simply doesn't have the infrastructure for this right now. Silicon Valley might, but the rest doesn't. Idiots.

@DAOWAce: As if one had anything to do with the other. That big companies like Google or Amazon can't just create game studios out of nowhere by throwing money at them has always been shown. But this doesn't affect the streaming service in any way. Unless you see something I don't. And I don't mean random prognoses and guesswork.

@HalcyonScarlet: Who are you kidding? PSNow has been around for some time and it's a complete garbage service. They already had to lower their price some time ago because no one was buying it. And even now it's just not worth it unless you're really into shitty indie games, of which there's plenty on there. Not much else besides that, only pretty old games that you could buy for a handful of bucks on a sale.

And who cares about Nvidia's steaming service? Google is in a good position simply because of who they are and they have the infrastucture. They can do a good job at it and that's all that it really comes down to with these streaming services. Sony makes zero use of its exclusive titles to promote PSNow as they can make more money by selling those games. Like I said, only old games end up on that platform. MS will probably do a better job but only because you're willing to pay lots of money for it out of their own pocket, as they're already doing with the gamepass. Sony's service was designed to be profitable from the start while MS' will take many years until it ever gets to that point. And by then it will either cost multiple times as much as it costs now. Or it will have the same shitty offering as PSNow does cause how are you supposed to pay for proper games with a subscription fee of only $10 per month?

But Stadia does actually already exist. Unlike MS' streaming service which so far seems to only exist in the form of MS' plans for it. And yeah, who cares about Nvidia's service and why would anyone choose that over any other? They've already added this stupid requirment to create an account just to use their driver update software some time ago, which many folks are not hapyp with. And I sure wouldn't install that crap either. After that move I'd only be less likely to use their streaming service over that of any other company.