Why quote an article talking about another article. Just use the original article:
"Google last year also pitched its technology to Bungie, the developer behind the "Destiny" franchise, which was exploring a streaming platform of its own, according to three people familiar with the discussions. Under the proposal, Bungie would own the content and control the front-end experience, but Google would power the technology that beamed the games to users' screens."
Insiders say Google has shifted its gaming ambitions to focus on deals with names such as Peloton in an effort to save Stadia's underlying technology.
www.businessinsider.com
So Google was going to bring in partners to "save" Stadia. Not sell it.
That would be a crazy way for Sony to aquire stadia....must have been some back door way to avoid any issues with the current case.
I mean how could Sony say they have no way to compete with xcloud when they've just acquired overall ownership of stadia.
I would put money that if they'd pulled this off it would have been bungie has bought stadia and then some time after the acti blizz deal (whichever way it went) they would announce that its rolled into the wider Sony umbrella.
Interesting.
When did Sony say they have no way of competing with xCloud? And none of this had anything to do with Sony as Sony wasn't even involved when this happened the previous year.
"Sony, which owns PlayStation, announced this week that it would acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion. While Bungie said it would continue to support Stadia, insiders did not know if the merger would affect plans between Google and Bungie."
Thread title is just wrong. And it seems we now know that the plans between Bungie and Google were abandoned after Sony acquired Bungie probably due to the fact that Sony has a deal with Microsoft to use Azure.