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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by im3w1l on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:23PM (#25994164)
My guess would be that disentangling a project from all proprietary dependencies is very expensive.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by Traster on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:47PM (#25994459)
It's actually a pretty interesting element of Google, their adherence to a centralized infrastructure must make spin offs and acquisitions incredibly difficult.
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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by arthurcolle on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:42PM (#25995132)
Couldn't the spun out company just license the centralized compute infrastructure and subsequently migrate as needed?

Seems easy enough, unless I'm missing something here

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