“Deprioritized” Google Stadia to pivot to “Google Stream” white-label service

Google just cant do anything right at this point.

Every non core product is chopped/changed/rebranded/reintegrated until it dies.

I feel behind it the minds of frenetic people with no empathy for their customers desperately scrambling to meet meaningless performance targets through the continual churn in each business area. People who wouldn't survive on their own merits for 5 minutes without vast budgets to throw into the abyss.

I've used this product and I bet not one voice involved even has a clue why its failing. They will, as in the past, invent their own reasons, pivot, which in turn will fail again

Google has zero perseverance when it comes to product development. The video game industry is very mature with cutthroat competition; you can't enter it with a few billions thinking you can make an impact in a year or two. They should have spent the money buying an existing publisher/developer.

If they gave me access to liquid nitrogen cooled CPUs running at 7-9GHz it would be a really useful service for CPU-bound games (Factorio, Paradox games). I just can't see the business case for streaming games based on what they're offering. I can buy a new GPU easily; setting up a proper overclocked CPU is an entirely different ball game.