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Google is discontinuing the games streaming service Stadia
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With great ambitions, Google pushed forward into the games market in 2019 with the Stadia streaming service. The product was regarded as a much-noticed pioneering achievement. But now Stadia is history.
Google declares its foray into the online video game business a failure. The internet giant is shutting down its games streaming service Stadia. With such offers, the video games do not run on the users’ PCs or consoles, but on the providers’ servers on the Internet and are controlled with the help of fast lines. The solutions are considered by many experts to be the future of the games industry.
With Stadia, Google was a pioneer in such services, which are also available from Microsoft with the Xbox gaming platform and the graphics card specialist Nvidia. Stadia did not get enough encouragement from users, Google admitted in a blog post on Thursday. Customers will be able to use their games until January 18 next year and should be reimbursed for hardware and software expenses.
Blog entry from Google