Google's Stadia will shut down this week

A reminder that the ill-fated game streaming service Stadia is set to shut down for good in just a few short days.

[SullysCigar]

"Died suddenly." RIP

Off to the Google graveyard.

[darthv72]

I will make a little shrine for my founders edition. Alas, poor stadia... I hardly played ya.

[SullysCigar]

Lol you've got me all emotional now!

[IanTH]

Make sure the shrine has easy access to the controller since Google will be putting out a tool next week to unlock its Bluetooth capabilities. So at least a piece of it can go on, living its own life, carving its own path forward; in control of its own destiny, and of other games.

It's what Streaming Puck would have wanted for it.

[darthv72]

@ian... I have a regular edition for that. I might link it up to the steam deck.

[IanTH]

Dang, you went in pretty hard on Stadia, with two editions. I just had the one. I had the same thought about using it for the Steam Deck, given how poor the Series 2 lag is on there over bluetooth. Hopefully this one works well with the Deck.

(I think that other comment may be the tamest thing I've ever gotten downvotes for....not even sure what is being downvoted lol)

[M3talDiamond]

Good Riddance! and hopefully there will never be another streaming only videogame service ever again. We dont want to pay infinite amounts of money to rent games. Intelligent gamers prefer to own their games not rent them, streaming only services like Stadia will ruin it for everyone

[GotGame818]

You know, I could see your point accept you have to install the entire game on your HD. Many "physical" games don't even contain the game. You put a disk in and it downloads. Then many times, day 1 patch.

Switch is the only console out where most games are whole, on a cartridge.

[Charlieboy333]

Playstation first party games are all complete on disk.

[SullysCigar]

"Many "physical" games don't even contain the game."

Can you name just five?

[P4rrot]

"Many "physical" games don't even contain the game.
Can you name just five?"

Modern Warfare 2
Halo Infinite (only part of the game is on the disc)
Umm i guess every single MMO

I can't name more.. but I suppose they do exist.

[CrimsonWing69]

I feel like you should say “you” instead of “we”.

I’m sure some people thought the same about movies and music. I think once streaming tech and bandwidth get to the point, being able to stream your games anywhere on any device would be super convenient.

Like think how you can play a game at home on your console, but then when you go on a trip you could just pick up your progress on a laptop, then when you get home continue on the home console. That’s something I want.

I feel like we can live in a world where you have both options for keeping physical media and being able to stream digital.

[VivaChe]

The problem wasn't streaming games as a concept; it was Google's notorious track record of announcing new tech and then almost immediately abandoning it. People didn't trust Stadia to still be around a year after it launched, so they never bought into it.

[CrimsonWing69]

Well, I learned a valuable lesson about buying Google products.

[Old McGroin]

Same. Although we do get full refunds and get to keep the hardware. So that's nice.

[CrimsonWing69]

Very true. I have to give them props on that.

[deleted]

Literally the only thing they got right throughout this whole experience! X'D

[Thundercat77]

We knew from the start it was doomed to fail.

[DarXyde]

Most of us, anyway.

It's honestly astounding how many L's Phil Harrison takes yet he continues to fail upwards. Everything this man touches dies. That man almost destroyed PlayStation but I'm glad there was a serious shift in culture and philosophy before that could happen.

[Knushwood Butt]

This.
So sick of people failing upwards. World has gone mad.

[Elda]

Pretty much.

[Bhuahahaha]

😁😆

[jznrpg]

Many of us saw this coming when it was announced .
We all knew of Googles lack of commitment to many projects and it definitely was premature to rely on streaming especially with the pricing they had .
They needed exclusives and much better pricing at minimum. Downloads would have helped a lot and a console wouldn’t hurt either but they weren’t invested much into it.

Full priced streaming only games was a stupid idea .

I could see them getting back in later in 10 years or later with this idea but I hope they don’t .

We need companies that want to create games and grow the industry not buy them up and call them their own and I believe Google would just try the MS formula and one MS is bad enough .

[Elda]

Bye bye.

[lucian229]

Lmaooo

[isarai]

Bye Felicia! 🤚

[mudakoshaka]

Imma remember this

[isarai]

I guess 2 people dont get the reference 😂

[mudakoshaka]

@isarai

Haha, I thought it was funny

[CobraKai]

Not surprised.

[Einhander1971]

Shut down, it never started!! Lol 😆 🤣

[georeo]

Rip…. Sike!

[ken2813]

😱

[TheEnigma313]

Gamers tried to yell Google, now amazon is next.

[Unknown_Gamer5794]

I didn’t know it was still around. I never had one or even came across one in the wild, so this is more of a useless piece of trivia for me, not that I’m likely to ever come across a trivia question asking when the Stadia was shut down or even how long it lasted.

[Chocoburger]

The best exclusive game on Stadia is GYLT, and its officially getting ported to other platforms, so please look into it if you're a fan of Stranger Things type of vibes.