Funny as stadia might have seen huge adoption IF they didn’t have a reputation of killing services and leaving the service user to hang.
Killing of stadia only reaffirms peoples fear to use google products. This includes GCP.
Killing of stadia only reaffirms peoples fear to use google products. This includes GCP.
I'm glad to be forever cautious with Google's new products, they've burnt me a few times the past 15 years.
To be fair, most gamers I’ve talked to don’t even know what Stadia IS.
By definition, gamers play games. To do that, they almost always own a console or gaming pc to do so. As a result, they have no need for Stadia in the first place.
You have casual gamers, that are perfectly happy playing natively on their phones or laptops at low settings.
Then you have “serious” gamers, that tend to be happy spending hundreds of dollars to make sure they have up to date hardware to get the most of their games (and thus, likely won’t be happy with the latency or game selection of Stadia).
Somewhere in between is a market of people that say “gee, I really want to play Destiny, at full graphics, and I’m ok with a little latency, but I can’t or don’t want to buy a better PC or $500 box for it”.
I’m sure that market exists, but it’s gotta be rather small in the best of circumstances, right?
IMO they need to fix the internal corporate culture and move it away from short-term OKR goals and promotions based on launching new stuff and a bit more towards helping to maintain and grow existing projects.
Those people don't exist in any significant numbers.
Every self-identifying gamer (me included) knew this service was DoA.