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Google is discontinuing Stadia after almost three years – customers are to be compensated
Stadia lets you stream games straight to your TV
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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.
The supposed revolution is over after almost three years: 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.
Google Stadia couldn’t win over enough gamers
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. At the highly acclaimed start in 2019, the star after a test: “With Stadia, the vision of gaming from the cloud becomes an impressive reality”. However, there were also some points of criticism and “a lot of room for improvement”. In the end, Stadia apparently failed to convince gaming fans.
Because: Stadia did not get enough encouragement from users, Google admitted in a blog entry on Thursday. So in Mountain View you draw the consequences and the ripcord. Customers will be able to use their games until January 18 next year and will be reimbursed for Stadia hardware such as gamepads and software.
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