Discussion

• @stephentotilo Stephen Totilo on x

  Google shuts down its internal Stadia game studios. Stadia service continues and will still see more third-party games, but focus is now on partnering with other companies. Jade Raymond out. https://kotaku.com/...

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  Google's move will make developers wary of investing in the work to bring games to Stadia. If Google can kill off its own game studios so quickly, it doesn't send a confident message about the future of Stadia as a consumer service https://twitter.com/...

• @danstapleton Dan Stapleton on x

  It's a damn shame we'll never see the “only possible in the cloud” game concepts that might've made Stadia exciting to people who already own/planned to buy game consoles and PCs. https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Google Stadia's failure has been expected for a while. A company can't stray too far from its core without a transplant of culture and tech. Android & YouTube were transplants. Maps, Chrome & Gmail were extensions of the core of capturing eyeballs for ads. https://kotaku.com/...

• @slasher Rod Breslau on x

  Google is shutting down its internal Stadia game studios. just like with Mixer, Google and Microsoft are both really great at convincing hundreds of people to come work for their new gaming platform only for it to fail miserably and then leave everyone out to dry

• @jfslowik @jfslowik on x

  Do you like a Google service? Well, just wait a year or two, it will go away to at minimum being rebranded/renamed to something else - or just disappear entirely in the end. https://twitter.com/...

• @ibogost Ian Bogost on x

  Amazon and other tech firms got into the film and television business because it brought the companies cultural prestige and their executives entry into a desirable social circle. Games offer neither benefit. https://twitter.com/...

• @imranzomg Imran Khan on x

  The thing about Stadia's internal studios is, they poached *exceptional* talent from other places and made acquisitions with strong potential. They then tasked them to establish new teams and make AAA games, which takes around 3-4 years at best. What did they expect would happen

• @jeremypenter ACG on x

  Seriously though, how long did the devs really get time to make games for this internally? It seems insanely short timing for a company that should have known better. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @killyourfm Jason Evangelho on x

  Oh no, who would have ever predicted this? /s https://www.engadget.com/...

• @genepark Gene Park on x

  contrast this with the news today about Nintendo just absolutely killing it when it comes to their own games. Nintendo is a creative outlier in the industry, even compared to Sony.

• @froml Leroy Athanassoff on x

  😢 To all the friends/colleagues devs over there, if you are in a difficult situation . don't hesitate to reach us , plenty of opportunity at ubisoft Hold on and I hope everything will be fine in the end for you ;( https://twitter.com/...

• @qorquiq Shayna Moon on x

  Laying people off is always shitty, laying people off in the middle of a pandemic when your market cap is $1 trillion is as cruel as it is stupid. https://twitter.com/...

• @slasher Rod Breslau on x

  Stadia is still alive (for now), but in true Google fashion that could come to an end anytime now. Stadia actually works pretty well now imo but Google has not done the product justice https://blog.google/...

• @kalebprime Kaleb on x

  OH NO MY FELLOW STADIANS, WE GOT TOO COCKY!! https://twitter.com/...

• @linuswilson Linus Wilson on x

  RIP Stadia first party games https://blog.google/...

• @edbott Ed Bott on x

  Google's Third Law of Software: For every internal startup there is an equal and opposite shutdown. https://twitter.com/...

• @gavkar Gokhan Avkarogullari on x

  Stadia devs: Apple is hiring in every area that is related to gaming, graphics, servers, audio, video, compression, etc, you name it. Please keep in mind when you are looking for your next job.

• @artjwink @artjwink on x

  I legit forgot Stadia was a thing until now. https://twitter.com/...

• @frank_supercell Frank on x

  Sorry to hear about this. About 150 people affected by the closure. 😞 #gamedev #stadia https://twitter.com/...

• @jetscott Scott Stein on x

  The promises of Stadia's unique in-house games are gone. What about the YouTube hook-ins and all that was promised there? https://www.cnet.com/...

• @tha_rami Rami Ismail on x

  It's so hard to trust these massive corporations with game dev, because somehow it seems they never understand that games take time & effort & risk. They can afford it, they'd just rather put 100-200 folks that just bet on them out of the job they got. https://twitter.com/...

• @sparksechidna @sparksechidna on x

  Well that didn't last long https://twitter.com/...

• @geoffkeighley Geoff Keighley on x

  Google Stadia has announced it is stopping production on any first party games and shutting down its Stadia Games & Entertainment studios, although the Stadia service will continue to support third party titles. https://blog.google/...

• @genepark Gene Park on x

  “Google was a terrible place to make games. Imagine Amazon, but under-resourced.” https://kotaku.com/...

• @ronamadeo Ron Amadeo on x

  We all expect Stadia to fail, but holy shit, not THIS FAST. It's been 14 months. https://twitter.com/...

• @jasonschreier Jason Schreier on x

  Stadia boss Phil Harrison keeps his job while 150 game developers lose theirs. Naturally https://twitter.com/...

• @kylemhilliard Kyle Hilliard on x

  I really wanted to see what Shannon Studstill was working on. I'm guessing that project's scrapped now, which is a bummer. https://twitter.com/...

• @patrickklepek Patrick Klepek on x

  The thing that everyone figured would happen, that Google would make a big splash and eventually get bored when they realized it was hard, is happening. Still, woof. https://twitter.com/...

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  this doesn't sound good for Google Stadia. Google is shutting down internal Stadia game studios ⤵️ https://twitter.com/...