Google Stadia Has Officially Shut Down - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 19 January 2023 / 1,970 Views
Google in September 2022 announced it would be shutting down its cloud gaming service, Stadia, on January 18, 2023. The day has now passed and the service last night was shut down at 11:59 pm PT / 2:59 am ET / 7:59 am GMT.
"To our players and partners, our team, community and fans: thank you, for everything," reads a tweet from the official Google Stadia Twitter account.
"As of 11:59pm PT today, we're signing off from the cloud. Y'all be good to each other, and stay safe out there."
To our players and partners, our team, community and fans: thank you, for everything.
— Stadia ☁️🎮 (@GoogleStadia) January 18, 2023
As of 11:59pm PT today, we're signing off from the cloud. Y'all be good to each other, and stay safe out there.
☁️ 🎮 pic.twitter.com/aCr0gW8IQq
Google has been refunding all Stadia purchases including hardware purchased through the Google Store, as well as all software, and add-on content purchased through the Stadia store. The majority of the refunds should be completed.
Google plans to use the technology that powered Stadia in other areas of Google like YouTube, Google Play, and its Augmented Reality (AR) efforts. It will also be made available to industry partners.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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rest in pepperoni
Oh well. What's everyone having for lunch today?
Homemade chicken curry!
The twenty-first century's answer to 3DO?
It was the answer to OnLive.
With how little Stadia has been around, and how poorly the hardware has sold, Google Stadia hardware may actually become a quite rare collector's item. That's the only thing of worth Stadia is going to leave.
The controllers are usable on some other systems, correct? I feel like I saw an article about this recently.
You tried
Not really though :P
Rest in Piss.
Too passive.
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It couldn't even survive for 4 years. Streaming is the future, but Google greatly mishandled Stadia. I don't even think the gaming world was unprepared for Stadia, but more Google wouldn't put in the effort needed.
That didn't last long,
And I thought streaming was the future!
A great library is key and takes a lot of time and money no matter the methods used to acquire that library, just a quick look at the history of gaming should show companies that if you aren't thinking in terms of a decade or longer heavy investment cycle you shouldn't waste your time trying.
Lol
Would it have made more sense to create a disc based console with a couple of exclusives at launch, and a standard 3rd party line up? From there, slowly roll out the cloud service after they gained a decent library of titles, mainly system selling exclusives.
