Google is shutting down the Stadia cloud-streaming gaming service in mid-January and refunding all Stadia purchases made through the Google Store and the Stadia store.
Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, -2.63% GOOG, -2.63% Google is shutting down the Stadia cloud-streaming gaming service in mid-January and refunding all Stadia purchases made through the Google Store and the Stadia store, the company said in a blog post Thursday.
Harrison said Google intends to apply Stadia’s technology to YouTube, Google Play and its augmented-reality efforts and to make it available to industry partners if it “aligns with where we see the future of gaming headed.” Despite initial optimism about its potential in the gaming industry, Stadia, which debuted in 2019, faced long odds from the start. Google has few ties in the gaming industry and a history of pulling the plug on projects only a few years after they launch.Read more: Google unveils Stadia streaming-videogame service, but not a price tag
Last year, rumors spread that the service would shut down after the number of games released to the platform slowed and Google shuttered its in-house game-development studios. The death watch intensified last week after Logitech International LOGI, -2.45% announced its new G Cloud Gaming Handheld and Stadia was not mentioned among the cloud-gaming services it supports.
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