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Stadia to close its game studios
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
The entire Internet called it... well, minus Voostropublican Gate. Unless he was arguing with himself on here.
Badlucktroll
Member
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
She should go back onto the Watch Dogs team because Legion wasn't very good.
Assassins Creed definitely progressed well beyond 1 and 2 with the Origins reboot and probably saved the franchise. It's vastly more Breath of the Wild than AC1 now.
carlosrox
Banned
SpiceRacz
Member
Care to elaborate? My experiences with them have been mostly positive.
Neo Blaster
Member
They tried their hardest to shake what they had, but nobody was buying.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
I actually tried the Stadia trial this month, and thought it was pretty good. Surprised there is this much disdain. If you have a good internet connection but no next gen system or gaming PC, its a good way to play games.
Pedro Motta
Gold Member
Good. Now give Shannon Studstll back to Sony Santa Monica.
SoloKingRobert
Banned
Microsoft now has more power to purchase publishers. Google's out of the competition. Now it's Amazon vs Microsoft
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JoeyWestSide
Member
The thing that bums me out is that you have devs (like Jade) who make great games but leave for another studio/venture, and start a new game. Going on 6 years since her last game and now we have to wait at least another 3 to see something. Meanwhile so many devs burn out or retire while we're waiting for another masterpiece (I thoroughly enjoyed watch dogs much more than 2). For those who love sunset overdrive, Drew Murray's last game in 2014, announced he's leaving the initiative after 2 years. This means fans of his, for the most part, don't get anything new, great and grand from him in 7 years and, if, he is not quitting games, need to wait at least another 3. Might just be me but it's easier to wait for games like GTA6 (easier to continue to wait rather than waiting, again, if that makes sense).
DavidGzz
Member
That too!
Mikey Jr.
Member
Lets hope Amazon gets cold feet with that fucking massive crucible failure and they completely pull out too.
Solarstrike
Member
New World is actually decent. Have you tried the Beta?
newtypepilot
Member
I think there's some misconception about people like Jade. They aren't devs, only producers, who are more like project managers and have very little say in game design process. You don't have to knowledgeable about video games to be a producer. And as the failure of Stadia has shown, these people know jack shit about video games, or how internet works in general.
D.Final
Banned
I can't wait
LordBlodgett
Member
I know this isn't the shutting down of Stadia, but it does mean that Stadia is not going to have any exclusives. Without exclusives how are they going to compete with Xcloud, PSNow, or even Amazon Luna?
Feels like a lot of Google's other half hearted ventures that they eventually give up on. I give Stadia another 18 months tops
Feels like a lot of Google's other half hearted ventures that they eventually give up on. I give Stadia another 18 months tops
Derktron
Banned
Hmm, Google > Microsoft more like it.
Derktron
Banned
Basically lol
They tried their hardest to shake what they had, but nobody was buying.
Pachi72
Member
I knew this would happen. Only the biggest incompetent company name Google can fuck this up.
https://killedbygoogle.com/
GnomeChimpsky
Member
Man, gotta love corporate speak.Update:
Focusing on Stadia’s future as a platform, and winding down SG&E
We’re expanding our efforts to help game developers and publishers take advantage of our platform technology, and winding down SG&E.blog.google
I would pay a lot of money for a tell-all book from Jade Raymond.
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TransTrender
Gold Member
This is simply the press release before THAT press release. They don't want to come straight out and say the service is dead while they're trying to part out any valuable IP. No, they'll make it seem like everything is chugging along just fine until they parted it out and have their wind down plan in place. They won't make it even a year.
supernova8
Banned
If Xbox gets the tech people from Stadia (it's not like it was a really shit system it just had no games or any draw to it) then xCloud will be even better than it already is.
megreotsugua
Banned
This is what will happen to all streaming services that only focus on games. Not enough of a target audience. Majority of gamers will always choose hardware whether PC or console.
Game streaming will only really fly among the casuals when it's included in a service targeted for the casuals.
Game streaming will only really fly among the casuals when it's included in a service targeted for the casuals.
megreotsugua
Banned
I wonder that too. She just left Sony Santa Monica for Stadia.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
Maybe I'm a casual? Honestly, the ability to almost instantly load up a new game without having to worry about downloading and installing or managing drive space is fantastic and I think something any gamer would appreciate. Gaming with Stadia is just so seamless and easy. It's a fantastic platform and I would probably be all on board it if I didn't already spend a bunch of money on a gaming Pc last year (and if there wasn't a question about its long term viability).
ZywyPL
Banned
Well what to expect, they went with the exact same terrible business model as all the previous streaming services that failed hard, so their fate can't be any different, it's only a matter of time. MS if the first and so far the only one who actually charges for using the service, not per game basis.
megreotsugua
Banned
Game streaming will appeals to casuals I agree. But it has to be packaged in a way that will appeal to them. A streaming service of pure games, IMO, will find limited target audience. It will be a hard sell among the gamer crowd who would rather buy hardware, and too expensive for the casual crowd who only really play console-type games occasionally.
I was thinking of something similar to this.
Netflix Gaming vs Netflix of Gaming
Netflix spent $17B on content in 2020. What if just $2B of that went into buying old successful games or including making their own games? = Game streaming to casuals of 300 million subs. How does it benefit Netflix? Retention. More variety of entertainment that could hook a subscriber when...
Gamepass Competitor: How about a Sony+? (PSNow+Funimation/Crunchyroll+Sony Movies&Shows)
Edit: Please ignore the thread title saying it's a gamepass competitor. I just realized this is not a game pass competitor but a Netflix (300M subs) and Disney+ (80M subs in a year) competitor targeting the masses who like entertainment but occasionally play games as well. This has larger...
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NiiloPielinen
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Lupingosei
Banned
This was another Google project after the diversity comity takeover and they all failed. Teams created not on merit, but for representation not only have to create a successful product for a market a huge part of the team is not even interested in in the first place.
Google was successful when they created stuff they themselves wanted to have. What was their last successful product after android? Now they can only buy smaller companies and leech off their creative energy until it is assimilated by the Google hive mind. Everybody with half of a brain knew that Stadia would fail. Only those morons in media thought it would prevail.
The sad part is, that the Nvidia system had to suffer because Google strongarmed developers to drop them.
Google was successful when they created stuff they themselves wanted to have. What was their last successful product after android? Now they can only buy smaller companies and leech off their creative energy until it is assimilated by the Google hive mind. Everybody with half of a brain knew that Stadia would fail. Only those morons in media thought it would prevail.
The sad part is, that the Nvidia system had to suffer because Google strongarmed developers to drop them.
funkygunther
Banned
RIP. The proposition is a mess, and now with no exclusives they're going to struggle to get anyone new to bite.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Well said. Such a weird frustrating company. I wouldn't be surprised to see the whole Stadia service get shut down within the year.
Well, Yumi Yang is head of SMS now, so if Shannon Studstill were to return (and I think she was there a long time so I'm sure they'd be happy to have her back) they'd either need to create a new position for her or she'd be lower down the ladder than she was before which she may not be happy about. Either way, I'm sure folk like her & Jade Raymond will not struggle to find work elsewhere.
I think she was heading up Ubisoft Toronto when they led development on Splinter Cell Blacklist. She also might have been at EA Motion when they shipped the campaign for Battlefront.
Whenever I've seen Stadia adverts/promotions, they always show it streaming on a smartphone, never on a smart TV which is where the majority play their games. Personally I've never considered playing console class games on a 6 inch screen, I rarely used the remote play feature of my PS3/Vita since I found the experience being difficult to play, the scaling on the HUD text being one example.
I think had they released some sort of server box that the user could plug into their router and have it stream to their devices, kind of like their own personal Stadia console so that they are not as reliant on Stadia servers, people would be more interested in it. I know a lot of people were put off by the latency issues and the prospect of Google shutting down the servers themselves and therefore loosing access to the game they brought. Also as someone mentioned earlier in the thread, a gamepass like subscription service would have fared better here.
At least the controller looks nice though, anyone know if it works with Steam or Windows itself? Is it easy to set up?
I think had they released some sort of server box that the user could plug into their router and have it stream to their devices, kind of like their own personal Stadia console so that they are not as reliant on Stadia servers, people would be more interested in it. I know a lot of people were put off by the latency issues and the prospect of Google shutting down the servers themselves and therefore loosing access to the game they brought. Also as someone mentioned earlier in the thread, a gamepass like subscription service would have fared better here.
At least the controller looks nice though, anyone know if it works with Steam or Windows itself? Is it easy to set up?
michaelius
Banned
Good - it was worst most consumer hostile bussiness model in gaming. The only acceptable one should be geforce now where you are renting hardware to play your own library remotely.
jufonuk
not tag worthy
Classic Google. Thank. Lemme find a gif to insert like everyone else.
