Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google
by YurgenJurgensen on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:37AM
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Now that I think about it, Stadia launched into an extremely favourable market where both GPUs and next-gen consoles were unobtainium and 'price drops' are a thing of legend, but they still couldn't make it work. Any other time without that advantage and they'd have failed even harder.
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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google
by 2muchcoffeeman on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:19AM
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They barely tried though. Did they expect to rival Xbox, Play Station and Nintendo in 2 years with their shitty reputation and without a AAA exclusive game? Were they even prepared to invest in the platform at all?
Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google
by sofixa on Sunday October 02, 2022 @10:39AM
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> Were they even prepared to invest in the platform at all?
They probably spent millions on getting the whole Ubisoft and EA catalogues on Stadia. There was also Red Dead Redemption 2 quite early on, Football Manager 2020, Destiny 2, some Doom, Hitman, Cyberpunk. Not to mention hundreds of indie games. Saying Google didn't invest enough is showing lack of knowledge about the platform.
Thet didn't need an exclusive, that money would have been better spent on convincing more studios to port, marketing. And reassuring potential users with a promise for a refund.