- Published on October 2, 2022
- In Global Tech
Stadia Joins The League Of Extraordinary ‘Killed by Google’ Projects
Curtains dropped on Stadia, and as per the announcement, on January 18, 2023, the service will completely shut down
- By Shraddha Goled
In 2019, Google introduced Stadia during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) held in San Francisco. A cloud gaming service, Google described it as ‘a platform for everyone’ – one that could stream games from the cloud to the Chrome browser, Pixel devices, and Chromecast. Against this backdrop, Google had also planned to establish its own gaming studio for exclusive titles. Stadia was touted to be the next disruptive thing in the gaming industry.
Around the same time, Journalist Maddy Myers sat down for an interview with Phil Harrison, VP and general manager at Google. Myres asked him, among various other questions, whether Stadia was just an ambitious Google project that will see the same fate as discontinued products like Google Plus. To this, Harrison replied, "This is not
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Shraddha Goled
I am a technology journalist with AIM. I write stories focused on the AI landscape in India and around the world with a special interest in analysing its long term impact on individuals and societies. Reach out to me at shraddha.goled@analyticsindiamag.com.
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