Stadia’s technology will live on, for now.
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Google Stadia, but I’m certainly going to miss it now it’s shutting down. While the writing has been on the wall for Stadia pretty much since it launched, I was one of the many to be intrigued by this cloud-powered future of gaming. I paid the entry fee for a empty stadium, but I enjoyed it anyway.. The first few months of the service felt like a beta I was paying Google to test.
Google had also promised neat YouTube integration and the ability to share game clips with friends and have them instantly jump in to play with you, but these features were nowhere to be seen at launch and barely exist today. It was a rough start for the future of gaming, but as the years rolled on I’ve weirdly started to rely on Stadia.
. It has also been key to allowing me to play Bungie’s looter shooter on my Steam Deck in recent months.doesn’t run on the Steam Deck at all, so I’ve used the free version of Stadia to fill that gap.on laptops and phones that would never be able to power such a title. The incredible ease of use of Stadia means you just navigate to the Stadia website, hit a button, and you’re playing a game a few seconds later.
Stadia’s biggest issue was its confusing business model and lack of games. Initially you had to pay a subscription to use Stadia and then you had to buy games on top on a service that everyone thought Google would eventually give up on. A subscription model like Xbox Game Pass would have suited Stadia more, but Google isn’t a game industry veteran and can’t strike the types of publishing deals that Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and others can.
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