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Re:Google announces update to unlock Stadia controllers to w... by dijit on Sunday January 15, 2023 @03:50PM (#34393215)
The major reason stadia failed was sentiment.

Why buy games full price? All my gamer friends say its crap!

Google shuts things down, why invest?

The tech was pretty good for casual gamers, it also pushed linux gaming in the AAA studios.

I think a lot of negative sentiment also came from gamers thinking that Stadia intended to replace their gaming setups.

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Re:Google announces update to unlock Stadia controllers to w... by abofh on Sunday January 15, 2023 @04:36PM (#34393747)
I will tell you I 100% refused to buy anything from stadia because I was sure Google would cancel it in a year or two. You can attribute sentiment wherever you want, but Google failed because it was Google, not because it was a bad idea.
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