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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by flohofwoe on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:31AM (#25998928)
> Failures should be celebrated and not shunned.

If it's something completely new, then yeah, celebrate failure, because at least you learned something. But game streaming had been tried and failed spectacularly before (remember OnLive?). Stadia didn't add anything new except "this time it's Google, they know their network stuff". Turns out that isn't enough if the business model makes no sense.

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by hiptobecubic on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:59AM (#26026489)
Failures being celebrated is about being willing to try out a new thing to see if it's viable.

You don't celebrate failure and you certainly don't celebrate causing failure by having such a poor strategy that random cartoonists predicted your failure mode on launch day and then riding it into the ground.

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