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I give this 2 years before Google removes all references of "Stadia" from it's product lineup. They have never stuck with a product which, relative to rest of t

I give this 2 years before Google removes all references of "Stadia" from it's product lineup. They have never stuck with a product which, relative to rest of their products, has smaller but dedicated adoption. For example, Valve will keep updating/supporting/hosting events of CSGO even if it has <1Mil active users on PC, but I can totally see Google pulling plug on it and burn dedicated followers.

kllrnohj 8y ago
> For example, Valve will keep updating/supporting/hosting events of CSGO even if it has <1Mil active users on PC, but I can totally see Google pulling plug on it and burn dedicated followers. Bad example because CSGO has been sitting at #2/#3 on steam's active player charts for years and years. Consistently ~10x the player count of, say, Rainbow Six Siege. Continuing to invest resources into a game with CSGO's player count is just all around solid business strategy, particularly since it has ~500k concurrent users at any given point. Active player count would be way, way over 1Mil. TF2 would be a better example, but I don't know how much (if anything?) Valve is still doing with the small TF2 community. It still has a respectable 50k concurrent user population, but has Valve been ignoring them? Are there still updates for it?
munificent 8y ago
> They have never stuck with a product which, relative to rest of their products, has smaller but dedicated adoption. Google Books (14 years old), Google Finance (12), Google Scholar (14), Google Fonts (9), etc.
- rasz 8y ago
  >Google Books broken and abandoned http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-go... >Google Finance https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-finance-as-you-know-it-is-going-away-here-is-what-will-remain-2017-09-27 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-finance-as-you-know...
technofiend 8y ago
Particularly if Facebook overtops them with some sort of streaming Oculus appliance. This is already a killer app for people on the edge about upgrading older PCs. I beta tested this as did a friend - he was able to play on a chromebook! But if I could play Elite: Dangerous on a streaming VR console I'm not sure I'd ever buy another high end PC again.

kllrnohj 8y ago

> For example, Valve will keep updating/supporting/hosting events of CSGO even if it has <1Mil active users on PC, but I can totally see Google pulling plug on it and burn dedicated followers. Bad example because CSGO has been sitting at #2/#3 on steam's active player charts for years and years. Consistently ~10x the player count of, say, Rainbow Six Siege. Continuing to invest resources into a game with CSGO's player count is just all around solid business strategy, particularly since it has ~500k concurrent users at any given point. Active player count would be way, way over 1Mil. TF2 would be a better example, but I don't know how much (if anything?) Valve is still doing with the small TF2 community. It still has a respectable 50k concurrent user population, but has Valve been ignoring them? Are there still updates for it?

munificent 8y ago

> They have never stuck with a product which, relative to rest of their products, has smaller but dedicated adoption. Google Books (14 years old), Google Finance (12), Google Scholar (14), Google Fonts (9), etc.

rasz 8y ago
>Google Books broken and abandoned http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-go... >Google Finance https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-finance-as-you-know-it-is-going-away-here-is-what-will-remain-2017-09-27 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-finance-as-you-know...

technofiend 8y ago

Particularly if Facebook overtops them with some sort of streaming Oculus appliance. This is already a killer app for people on the edge about upgrading older PCs. I beta tested this as did a friend - he was able to play on a chromebook! But if I could play Elite: Dangerous on a streaming VR console I'm not sure I'd ever buy another high end PC again.