On September 29, 2022, Google announced that its Stadia cloud game streaming service will be discontinued at the end of January 2023. You can no longer make purchases through the platform, and in particular, Google offers gamers refunds for everything they may have bought during its three-year existence: controllers, games and everything.
Despite the end coming (which many predicted given Google’s propensity to kill projects rather than make them disappear), Google arguably succeeded in delivering on its promise to bring cloud game streaming to some screens before Microsoft. , Sony and Amazon formal plans to do the same. It was also new to the industry as it was a platform that did not require any hardware purchase on the part of the user; you can connect a controller you already owned to your computer and get started by launching Google Chrome. Here’s our original review from 2019, for old times sake.
We look back and look forward to digging more into Stadia while we still can. You’ll find all the reports of Stadia’s death – and possibly its remnants that will live on – collected in this StoryStream.
