Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by UncleMeat on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:05PM
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The company really did go from "hire like mad" to "oh shit cut stuff" seemingly overnight. It would not surprise me if Stadia was an easy way for some SVP to slash their budget to appease Finance.
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Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:57PM
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That tweet was from two months ago, long after everyone saw the writing on the wall with respect to the economy. As another commenter responded, the first tweet in response to that was:
> When you inevitably do shut down in a couple of months could you please just release Bluetooth drivers for the controller first? It's a good controller and I'd like to be able to use it.
In other words, people didn't believe them from the get go. Whether it was an outright lie, or a George Constanza-esque "It's not a lie if YOU believe it" message, is pretty irrelevant. Everyone knew or should have known it was BS.
Many companies, especially publicly traded ones, do overt knee-jerk reactions when there are big stories of economic downturns.
I actually think it's an intentional behavior designed to show investors that they are being studious relative to economic conditions (aka, covering their asses to avoid shareholder suits).