Google Stadia looks to be a monumental flop

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

Oopsy poopsy, wasted all those moneys.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

honestly I'm kinda perplexed at this point that Stadia is even still a thing.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Welp.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

I AM SHOCKED! SHOCKED I SAY!

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Feb 1, 2021 15:02:38 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

I AM SHOCKED! SHOCKED I SAY!

That was my exact reaction to this news as well

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Oh no! Anyway...

[Feargus McReddit]

This is amazingly the second time in two months that a big corporation closed its video game division because it hired a bunch of industry veterans and didn’t listen to any of them for no actual good reason.

At least Disney has the sense not to open a video games division anymore for pretty much that reason.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Someone also pointed out that, firing your first party studio probably isn't going to inspire faith in your third party devs...

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Was Stadia Curt Schilling's idea or something?

[BorneAgain]

While there are so many projects that show some real potential only to made that critical bad turn leading to its unfortunate end, Stadia was almost refreshing in being so deeply flawed from the beginning that its inevitable failure was something basically everyone was counting down to.

A game service advertised as one you could play anywhere still making no progress even during a pandemic where people could say home is just the icing on the cake really.

I do feel for the no doubt hard working programmers whom likely did the best they could but were stuck working for clueless execs.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Did they ever turn out any worthwhile exclusives for the platform? A console or service lives and dies on what they have you can't get elsewhere, Nintendo's first, second and exclusive third party games kept them alive when they could easily have gone the way of Sega, competing with far bigger companies who were prepared to lose money.

[BorneAgain]

Feb 1, 2021 16:42:01 GMT -5 The Dark Order Inferno said:

Did they ever turn out any worthwhile exclusives for the platform? A console or service lives and dies on what they have you can't get elsewhere, Nintendo's first, second and exclusive third party games kept them alive when they could easily have gone the way of Sega, competing with far bigger companies who were prepared to lose money.

Honestly every potential market they were going after seemed to be covered. Want a cheaper console for certain indie titles? Get a Switch. Need something to play triple A titles on? Grab an older/cheaper PS 4/Xbox One. Only interest is in playing on your phone? Try out mobile games.

The moment the Stadia boss said that not only would games be the same price as everywhere else, but that he didn't even know why games on the service would be cheaper? That basically confirmed the whole project was dead in the water, because less expensive titles were really the only angle they could have had to stand out.

Really, Stadia's systematic issues seemed to be obvious from the beginning to everyone except those at Google.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Feb 1, 2021 16:46:09 GMT -5 BorneAgain said:

Feb 1, 2021 16:42:01 GMT -5 The Dark Order Inferno said:

Did they ever turn out any worthwhile exclusives for the platform? A console or service lives and dies on what they have you can't get elsewhere, Nintendo's first, second and exclusive third party games kept them alive when they could easily have gone the way of Sega, competing with far bigger companies who were prepared to lose money.

Honestly every potential market they were going after seemed to be covered. Want a cheaper console for certain indie titles? Get a Switch. Need something to play triple A titles on? Grab an older/cheaper PS 4/Xbox One. Only interest is in playing on your phone? Try out mobile games.

The moment the Stadia boss said that not only would games be the same price as everywhere else, but that he didn't even know why games on the service would be cheaper? That basically confirmed the whole project was dead in the water, because less expensive titles were really the only angle they could have had to stand out.

Really, Stadia's systematic issues seemed to be obvious from the beginning to everyone except those at Google.

And it's biggest selling point, the play anywhere aspect was a lie as it only worked on certain devices and america's broadband infrastructure is not up to it in vast chunks of the country, with no signs it will ever improve.

It kind of reminds me of Kinect, the kind of thing that seemed like a fantastic idea in board meetings, but was basically useless in major markets, stadia was useless in the US and the Kinect was useless in Europe and Asia due to smaller room sizes

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Shocking, I know.

[Malcolm]

Welp, here lies Google Stadia...

Because it couldn't it couldn't actually go anywhere. 🤣

[Sir Woodrow]

I've mentioned it before but I am fascinated by failed consoles

[Zone Was Wrong]

New 'What Happened' coming up. Really hope McMuscles covers this story, could be entertaining.

[Push R Truth]

In retrospect it feels like the very definition of: They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Because on paper it looks great but reality ain't in paperspace.

[Zombie Mod]

google have a history of launching something (or attempting to.) and killing it off quickly either by dropping support or flat out ending it. this was something me and a couple of now ex work colleagues said at the time would happen.

[Deleted]

It might had failed but atleast google can say it wasn't the Intellivision Amico . Also wonder if Google going to refund that one guy who got a Stadia tattoo.