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I don’t understand why Google doesn’t ever try to sell these aborted projects off rather than just killing them. Stadia is (was) a means to make recurring reven
by fisherjeff 4y ago
I don’t understand why Google doesn’t ever try to sell these aborted projects off rather than just killing them. Stadia is (was) a means to make recurring revenue off other people’s games! I’m sure margins are thin but I also don’t doubt that there are some scrappier businesses out there would love to take a crack at it.
- sowbug 4y agoGoogle projects are built on Google's proprietary tech stack. Which itself has at least two of everything. So not only is it hard to separate a software project from Google, but it's also hard even to separate a project from the specific team that built it.
- fisherjeff 4y agoSure, I get that - it’s not zero cost to spin them out. But neither is issuing a bunch of refunds, for example. And at this point, they must know that memory holing projects is costing them a ton of credibility when it comes to launching new products.