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Stadia has not been cancelled. It's a rumor. It has traction only because Google has cancelled too many products. Go read the HN thread on it, people there wer

by kyrra 4y ago

Stadia has not been cancelled. It's a rumor. It has traction only because Google has cancelled too many products. Go read the HN thread on it, people there were calling it poorly sourced.

SteveNuts 4y ago
At this point I'll be shocked if Stadia isn't cancelled, that's just what Google does and their customers know it by now. It's become a self fulfilling prophecy.
- solardev 4y ago
  There was a discussion about this just yesterday or so (sorry, on mobile, hard to find). But I think a while ago they already pivoted to selling/renting the underlying tech to other businesses instead of trying to be a game marketplace. What's left of consumer Stadia is just dying day by day... not that it was ever particularly healthy.
solardev 4y ago
Honestly, it's questionable whether Stadia was ever alive to begin with. It's been neglected ever since inception.
dexwiz 4y ago
Friend of a friend story: one of the POs left days after launch, because they knew it would never replace consoles/desktops. It's really struggled to find footing since. Personal theory: Stadia is a precursor to Rendering as a Service for AR/VR. It will be a long time before we can render a high-quality content for stereoscopic vision with a mobile device. But if you can solve the streaming problem, you can just offload it to the cloud. Issue is that any tracking lag that causes motionsickness now will just be magnified.
- solardev 4y ago
  It's tempting to think there was some grand plan for Stadia, but more likely it was just another failed copycat like Google Plus. Game streaming tech was around before Stadia, and Nvidia is doing it much better now. I don't see how Google could ever compete directly with that unless they get into the GPU business themselves.
etempleton 4y ago
It has not been cancelled, but it is not being supported. It might as well be dead. My understanding is they are pivoting to white label services, but I am not sure if that is more than conjecture.

by kyrra 4y ago

Stadia has not been cancelled. It's a rumor. It has traction only because Google has cancelled too many products. Go read the HN thread on it, people there were calling it poorly sourced.

SteveNuts 4y ago

At this point I'll be shocked if Stadia isn't cancelled, that's just what Google does and their customers know it by now. It's become a self fulfilling prophecy.

solardev 4y ago
There was a discussion about this just yesterday or so (sorry, on mobile, hard to find). But I think a while ago they already pivoted to selling/renting the underlying tech to other businesses instead of trying to be a game marketplace. What's left of consumer Stadia is just dying day by day... not that it was ever particularly healthy.

solardev 4y ago

Honestly, it's questionable whether Stadia was ever alive to begin with. It's been neglected ever since inception.

dexwiz 4y ago

Friend of a friend story: one of the POs left days after launch, because they knew it would never replace consoles/desktops. It's really struggled to find footing since. Personal theory: Stadia is a precursor to Rendering as a Service for AR/VR. It will be a long time before we can render a high-quality content for stereoscopic vision with a mobile device. But if you can solve the streaming problem, you can just offload it to the cloud. Issue is that any tracking lag that causes motionsickness now will just be magnified.

solardev 4y ago
It's tempting to think there was some grand plan for Stadia, but more likely it was just another failed copycat like Google Plus. Game streaming tech was around before Stadia, and Nvidia is doing it much better now. I don't see how Google could ever compete directly with that unless they get into the GPU business themselves.

etempleton 4y ago

It has not been cancelled, but it is not being supported. It might as well be dead. My understanding is they are pivoting to white label services, but I am not sure if that is more than conjecture.