Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus

Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by awill on Monday February 01, 2021 @07:05PM (#25995872)

Bingo. Ads making so much money has destroyed Google, because they can make mistake after mistake and still be profitable. Most companies think this is good, but it's actually a curse. When decisions don't have consequences, people don't care. Google doesn't care if Stadia fails.

What surprises me more is why people trusted Google enough to invest in Stadia in the first place. Had they let you import Steam games (like Nvidia does), fine, you're not risking anything. But actually paying Google for the license to a game that's ONLY available on Stadia? No thanks.

This is exactly what HP looked like a couple of decades ago. Making billions from printers meant everything else suffered.

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by spicyramen on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:53PM (#25996962)

This and Google internal promotion process focused on launches. Launch something, make a big splash of it and you will get more $$$. Recipe for disaster. In Enterprise world specifically in Cloud this still haunt them

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by lumost on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @09:31AM (#26001319)

In a large organization it's difficult to track if launches really were successful or not. "Striking while the iron is hot" is the expected behavior for leaders, and the folks who want to grow need to immediately look at the next big thing.

I haven't seen a good model for incentivizing staying with a product or team in a large company. Most of the time the "ops" work or incremental growth work will never appear as significant as a new launch (particularly if 2 years on the product isn't performing to the launch teams projections)

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by spicyramen on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:12PM (#26010533)

That's very true, pushing for new projects regardless they are successful or not is a path for success. I think eventually this leadership need a successful track history to prove is worth investing in this person/leader projects

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by hiptobecubic on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:42AM (#26026278)

Requiring a successful track record pushes people even harder to try to build one by launching new projects.

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by mdgrech23 on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:31PM (#25996511)

I bought one. I do feel like I made a mistake. Used it only a handful of times. The only way i can justified my purchase is I got the founders edition and paid maybe $100 for the chromecast ultra, the controller and 3 months of Stadia so considering i can still use the chromecast I chalk it up as maybe a $50 loss.

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