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[caligula13]

Only for hardware and direct game & add-on sales through Googles storefront from the sounds of it. No monthly/Pro/whatever reimbursements.

So for all the Games I bought?

 

[SSfox]

Jason is such a noob, of course it's gonna cost millions $ to get those port. You are asking Rockstar to put some their hands on this port that were supposed to be in the making of GTA6 that will bring them some billions. Porting games isn't done with one click.

 

[Ribi]

Great now everyone will jump to luna...

 

[Warnen]

cool they are giving refunds. Still have hopes of playing destiny on the shitter, steam deck prob best bet these days if they ever make it work out of the box.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

Congrats !

Welcome to to killedbygoogle.com family !

You are also welcome Fat Frog

Digital future baby:
"something is done, everything is gone"

I feel really bad for the 3 Stadia users.
It's a lie, I don't, fuck Stadia

Phil: “We don’t see Sony as a competitor. Google is our competitor”

Reminder to people: Phil is not your buddy, he's a corporate employee and doesn't give a single shit about you.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Overdue.

Jason is such a noob, of course it's gonna cost millions $ to get those port. You are asking Rockstar to put some their hands on this port that were supposed to be in the making of GTA6 that will bring them some billions. Porting games isn't done with one click.

I like how he's trying to make it about himself. He needs to fuck off into the sunset. "look at me, I reported this shit last year" *punch*

 

[GhostOfTsu]

The comment was regarding potential acquisitions not seeing cloud gaming as a threat.

Bethesda Acquisition by Microsoft Factored Into Stadia Studios Shutdown

Google Stadia's Phil Harrison reportedly states that Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda played a role in shutting down Stadia studios.

gamerant.com

Google tried to buy Bethesda and Amazon bought Double Helix who made Killer Instinct. They don't want Google or Amazon to buy the studios that Microsoft could.
Phil always said that streaming is just a convenience that will never replace local hardware.

Phil Spencer : "Streaming games is convenient, but playing locally will flat-out always be better"

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/12/23/forward-facing “The best place to play is locally; I’ll say that flat-out,” he says. “Streaming is a technology of convenience. It’s a technology of choice when you’re away from your console and you want to play.”

www.neogaf.com

No it was about Cloud, not about Double Helix or whatever

Keep doing damage control for your hero. He will need it to explain to Satya why Google is the real threat

 

[Maiden Voyage]

So for all the Games I bought?

Games, yes, seems so.

 

[johnjohn]

The business model never made sense. Like people were seriously expected to buy full price games that they would only be able to stream? The only way Stadia had a chance of being successful was if it was a service similar to Game Pass.

 

[RoadHazard]

The business model never made sense. Like people were seriously expected to buy full price games that they would only be able to stream? The only way Stadia had a chance of being successful was if it was a service similar to Game Pass.

Nintendo does it on Switch (or maybe it's the 3rd parties themselves that do it). And yeah, I don't get it there either.

 

[MarkMe2525]

This is lame. I got borderlands 3 for 99 cents, and I will pop in and play a little bit of destiny 2 went away from the house using stadia. Service worked well 99% of the time. Yet, I am not surprised.

 

[jm89]

No it was about Cloud, not about Double Helix or whatever

Keep doing damage control for your hero. He will need it to explain to Satya why Google is the real threat

Cause it's easier to compete with a doa brand(stadia) and irrelevant one(luna) and now even easier for philippe.

 

[Zones]

The comment was regarding potential acquisitions not seeing cloud gaming as a threat.

http://[URL]https://gamerant.com/stadia-studios-shutdown-microsoft-bethesda-acquisition-factor/

[/URL]
Google tried to buy Bethesda and Amazon bought Double Helix who made Killer Instinct. They don't want Google or Amazon to buy the studios that Microsoft could.
Phil always said that streaming is just a convenience that will never replace local hardware.

http://[URL]https://www.neogaf.com/...cally-will-flat-out-always-be-better.1517434/

[/URL]

Stop shifting the goal post, Phil said this literally in the context of cloud, and definitely not acquisitions.

Here's the direct section taken from The Verge...

"Microsoft’s head of gaming and Xbox, Phil Spencer, has revealed that the company sees Amazon and Google as its main competition for the future. Speaking in an interview with newly launched technology publication Protocol, Spencer dismisses Sony and Nintendo’s ability to create a cloud infrastructure that will challenge Microsoft, Google, or Amazon.

“When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a ton of respect for them, but we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward,” says Spencer. “That’s not to disrespect Nintendo and Sony, but the traditional gaming companies are somewhat out of position. I guess they could try to re-create Azure, but we’ve invested tens of billions of dollars in cloud over the years.”

 

[Fredrik]

At least they're refunding everyone

Yeah that’s honestly a fat pleasant surprise, sounds like we’ll get refunded for both hardware and games too. Zero hard feelings here. Time to buy Ragnarök!

 

[MScarpa]

Stadia owners, come on over to Gamepass and PSPLUS. It's good eating here.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Anyone else considering buying one just to get their money back in a couple months when they need it?

 

[TGO]

But it just arrived in India!

 

[Oddvintagechap]

Sony calling Google right now for a little partnership. Give us some some of those Stadia Patents, we’ll integrate youtube into our streaming.

https://www.engadget.com/amp/2015-04-02-sony-buys-onlive.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikka...million-are-consoles-headed-to-the-cloud/amp/

 

[pasterpl]

Everyone was expecting this. Amazon Luna next?

 

[DaGwaphics]

But it just arrived in India!

Just the trademark I think.

I think Mexico was the only official expansion they had announced. Maybe they weren't getting much of a response from efforts there. Weird they would be talking up the Mexico thing in June and shutting down in September. LOL

 

[Fredrik]

Anyone else considering buying one just to get their money back in a couple months when they need it?

Could invest waste the money on stocks instead for a couple months

 

[GhostOfTsu]

Stop shifting the goal post, Phil said this literally in the context of cloud, and definitely not acquisitions.

Here's the direct section taken from The Verge...

"Microsoft’s head of gaming and Xbox, Phil Spencer, has revealed that the company sees Amazon and Google as its main competition for the future. Speaking in an interview with newly launched technology publication Protocol, Spencer dismisses Sony and Nintendo’s ability to create a cloud infrastructure that will challenge Microsoft, Google, or Amazon.

“When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a ton of respect for them, but we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward,” says Spencer. “That’s not to disrespect Nintendo and Sony, but the traditional gaming companies are somewhat out of position. I guess they could try to re-create Azure, but we’ve invested tens of billions of dollars in cloud over the years.”

No, Phil got a blank cheque and spent 80 billions because Amazon bought Double Helix in 2014

 

[GreenAlien]

Time to use those 3 months of free Stadia Pro LG is offering to OLED owners

Edit: Damn, registration might no longer work.. WIll try again tomorrow :-(

 

[Solarstrike]

 

[RoadHazard]

Anyone else considering buying one just to get their money back in a couple months when they need it?

You mean the controller? It's not available to buy anymore. Not from Google themselves at least, not sure if it's sold by anyone else.

 

[Jeeves]

Finally I get to use this for real

 

[NickFire]

Stop shifting the goal post, Phil said this literally in the context of cloud, and definitely not acquisitions.

Here's the direct section taken from The Verge...

"Microsoft’s head of gaming and Xbox, Phil Spencer, has revealed that the company sees Amazon and Google as its main competition for the future. Speaking in an interview with newly launched technology publication Protocol, Spencer dismisses Sony and Nintendo’s ability to create a cloud infrastructure that will challenge Microsoft, Google, or Amazon.

“When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a ton of respect for them, but we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward,” says Spencer. “That’s not to disrespect Nintendo and Sony, but the traditional gaming companies are somewhat out of position. I guess they could try to re-create Azure, but we’ve invested tens of billions of dollars in cloud over the years.”

There's gonna be a lot of moving goal posts over those comments. I would also expect at least one or two countries regulatory reviews will take note of the reduced competition in the industry now that Stadia is dead.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Maybe Google can get some money back selling the logo.

There's got to be a company in the world that makes magic markers that would be interested in it.

 

[Captain Toad]

Phil: “We don’t see Sony as a competitor. Google is our competitor”

Now they can claim they "won"!

 

[wolywood]

Phil Spencer now that he pretty much has the cloud gaming market to himself:

 

[THE DUCK]

Really great that they are refunding all the software and hardware, actually keeps some faith in the company itself.

I dont really understand the intense hate, I tried it a few times and it wasn't really for me as I had most of the games elsewhere.
Google didn't support it at all, they needed exclusive aaa games and an actual budget to advertise it. Even when they launched the new Google tv, they didn't even have stadia working on it when it came out. To say nothing of how network issues could affect things.

RIP stadia.

 

[kyussman]

Imagine Microsoft and Sony closing down a streaming service and then giving everyone their money back,lol.

 

[Bartski]

 

[Fat Frog]

So many notifications.

 

[Kuranghi]

So many notifications.

Will you be holding a memorial service?

 

[Bojanglez]

Shame, it was technically sound. Glad they are giving people refunds, I hope they release a firmware update for the controllers to open up the Bluetooth connectivity.

 

[SLB1904]

Cloud is the future people in shambles

 

[Josemayuste]

So agent Phil Harrison did his job in the end huh..

 

[AtomicStarving]

Cloud gaming sucks and always will!

 

[lukilladog]

 

[Esppiral]

Has this been officially announced?

 

[Hellmaker]

Hahahaahhahahahaha aaaaa ahahaahhahah

 

[Melfice7]

Nothing of value for gamers has been lost

 

[Davevil]

 

[Arcadialane]

Has this been officially announced?

Yes

https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-streaming-strategy/

 

[Mung]

I'm actually surprised that even that many people chose that option to play games. That's nuts to me.

 

[Drew1440]

Didn't they just launch it in a couple of countries recently?

Very sad news, one less competitor in the gaming space.

 

[Little Chicken]

Don't really think they were really in it to win it to begin with. It's so hard to become an established platform in this industry. Their main competitor (Microsoft) was leagues ahead of them in terms of investment, they probably didn't feel it was worth sinking billions over the next decade to catch up.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

It is very gracious of them to buy back the hardware and the provide refunds for the games, didn't expect that.
I ended up loosing nothing (I own the games multiple other places...who doesn't) and I got some decent Chromecast hardware for free!

 

[MacReady13]

Reminder to people: Phil is not your buddy, he's a corporate employee and doesn't give a single shit about you.

I wish some people in this very forum would understand that. The future of digital/sub services- own nothing and be happy. Fuck this bullshit. Glad to see Stadia fail miserably. Fuck this streaming only bullshit.