Google is moving away from its plans to build its own gamea for the Stadia, σταματάει την ανάπτυξη του project και κλείνει τα στούντιο της στο Μόντρεαλ και το Λος Άντζελες.
Just over a year after the launch of the Stadia platform, the Google is starting to limit its activities to games. The company closes the two game development studios and cancels its work.
The Stadia is a streaming platform which is cloud-based and launched on November 19, 2019. Google launched the Stadia Games and Entertainment division in March of the same year, assigning its direction to former Assassin's Creed game producer Jade Raymond.
Raymond is now leaving Google. At the same time, the closure of the Montreal and Los Angeles studios will affect 150 developers. Google has said it will try to find new roles for these employees.
Google will continue to operate Stadia as service gambling, for Stadia Pro, at a price of $ 10 per month.
Μεγάλες εταιρείες τεχνολογίας, όπως η Google και η Amazon, έχουν κάνει τα τελευταία χρόνια αρκετά φιλόδοξες προσπάθειες για να μπουν στην ανάπτυξη παιχνιδιών, αλλά με ελάχιστο ή μηδενικό αποτέλεσμα. Τίποτα τουλάχιστον που να άξιζε την προσπάθεια και την επένδυση. Η Amazon κυκλοφόρησε το online shooter Crucible τον Μάιο. Σταμάτησε την ανάπτυξή του τον Οκτώβριο. Το MMO New World του Amazon θα κυκλοφορήσει φέτος.
Stadia is rather a victim of bad timing and bad planning. The release of Stadia in 2019 became a difficult time, as that year the Switch entered the market strongly. Also, many gamers have been waiting patiently for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S releases. In addition, there is competition within the cloud-streaming space itself, which was reheated when Microsoft made xCloud a part of the Game Pass Ultimate package. .
Google of course has them money to take risks with businesses like gaming, but knowing that it doesn't depend on the success of Stadia to remain profitable, the company is able to very quickly and easily exit (or downsize) the venture.