Stadia officially shutting down January 18, 2023

[Legend]

A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy

[the-pi-guy]

Tweets that aged poorly:

Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro. Let us know if you have other questions.

— Stadia ?????? (@GoogleStadia) July 29, 2022

[kitler53]

Tweets that aged poorly:

Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro. Let us know if you have other questions.

— Stadia ?????? (@GoogleStadia) July 29, 2022

lol, for a second i was thinking that was recent but that's the tweet i instantly thought about when i saw the thread title.   

"we have no plans for new hardware revision for our XXX consoles" ~nintendo/playstation/xbox

**waits 1 week***

"we're excited to announce our new hardware revision!!"  ~nintendo/playstation/xbox

[the-pi-guy]

Phil Harrison

1992-2008: Quit after disaster PS3 launch
2008-2010: Infogrames/Atari, filed for bankruptcy in 2013
2010-2012: Gaikai, bought by Sony
2012-2015: Quit after disaster Xbox One launch
2018-2023: Google Stadia closes in less than 5 years

Bad juju pic.twitter.com/7adpKjHLey

— MauroNL (@MauroNL3) September 29, 2022

[Legend]

Phil Harrison

1992-2008: Quit after disaster PS3 launch
2008-2010: Infogrames/Atari, filed for bankruptcy in 2013
2010-2012: Gaikai, bought by Sony
2012-2015: Quit after disaster Xbox One launch
2018-2023: Google Stadia closes in less than 5 years

Bad juju pic.twitter.com/7adpKjHLey

— MauroNL (@MauroNL3) September 29, 2022

Gaikai is great at least.

[the-pi-guy]

I reported this last year at Bloomberg but the amount of money Google spent to get games on Stadia is so shocking that I still can hardly believe it, even after corroborating with multiple sources. Tens of millions of dollars PER GAME for Red Dead 2, Assassin's Creed, etc

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) September 29, 2022

Left: Google Stadia boss Phil Harrison to me in 2019
Right: Google Stadia boss Phil Harrison three years later pic.twitter.com/VEGTDlYHuY

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) September 29, 2022

[the-pi-guy]

I'm sorry, but I thought this was funny.  

*pauses Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia* failed? Huh, interesting. *Goes back to netrunning.

— ??? (@_pwnz) September 29, 2022

Well, shit. Glad they are refunding everything.

— ??? (@_pwnz) September 29, 2022

[the-pi-guy]

https://t.co/dgQRMHIPaI pic.twitter.com/OunpKR8sFQ

— PLAION (@PLAION) September 30, 2022