RIP Google Stadia

The writing was on the wall…

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On September 29, Google announced it is pulling the plug on its cloud gaming service Stadia.

Here are some key points:

• Stadia launched in late 2019, allowing users to play modern games with minimal hardware via “the cloud”. Such technique is relatively similar to video streaming services such as Netflix.
• The service has suffered from latency and connectivity issues.
• Few games were available relative to other platforms.
• Google shut down the “Stadia studios” (the in-house Stadia game development unit) in February 2021. This generated a fair amount of rumors on the future of the platform.
• Users will continue to have access to their games library and play through mid January 2023.

This story was first published on The PhilaVerse (my Substack newsletter).