September 30, 2022 11:00 am
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/30/23378757/google-stadia-commitments-shutdown-rumors
Remembering all those times Google said it was committed to Stadia
Come January, Google will be shutting down its Stadia cloud gaming service. In some ways, the move isn’t much of a surprise — as my colleagues have pointed out, there’s been doubt about whether Google was in it for the long haul with Stadia basically ever since it was announced in March 2019.
If you’ve been listening to what the company said about the service, though, you’d be forgiven for being blindsided. Up until the very end, Google insisted there’s a wonderful future for Stadia, and that players should keep signing up for and using the service, despite rumors that it was about to go bust. Now that Stadia’s officially being shut down, let’s take a look at the times Google promised us this wouldn’t happen.
October 2019 — “It is a long...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/30/23378757/google-stadia-commitments-shutdown-rumors
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