Google Stadia Pivot

Google isn't cancelling Stadia; they're just not making their own games.

Stadia is a brute force attempt to grow GCP revenue

not the reason. stadia isn't the only offering in this space; both GamePass and GFN are doing fine

Its ok. Stadia is a google product, it wont exist by the end of 2020.

I think the reason this is a big deal is that one of the selling points of Stadia was that "cloud gaming" would enable things that consoles and PCs didn't, like huge persistent worlds with a ton a players in a single area. With no first party support, Stadia is just going to be a way to stream ports of games designed for consoles and PCs. Imagine if Valve released the Index, then announced that they aren't making VR games any more. That's basically what Google is doing b

Never heard of Stadia until now <== might also be a factor

Stadia is absolutely amazing.Google are insane to not double down on it. I’m not much of a ‘gamer’ but it’s amazing just to open up chrome and be able to play flawlessly, it works so much better than other streaming services, there are so many things they could do with it but they simply haven’t, it’s ridiculous.Why invest in the tech anyway if you don’t have a plan for it afterwards? It seems they misunderstood what was needed in the space and then just walked away, instead of adjusting.

I use Stadia, its actually very good, its fantastic technically, but it should have been a subscription service with Google doing what Epic did by throwing money at developers to get games on their platform, they should also have used it as a way of showcasing demo's of games. Im not going to buy anymore games on it now, its probably going to be shuttered in before the end of the year, which is a tragedy, because it could have been something special.

Stadia should have made something like this obsolete but...Google.

Hey man don't forget about Google Stadia! It was a fully featured and complete product when it released last year!