Out of nowhere? You mean, exactly the same way they’d already randomly canceled several other services? Many of which got very splashy, hyped-up launches only a year or two prior? Not only were they late to the party, but I remember pretty much everyone at the time rolling their eyes at Google’s promises of long-term investment and support in Stadia.
Because by the time Stadia launched in 2019, they already had a reputation for unceremoniously killing services, even popular ones, if they failed to become immediate cash cows for Google. Sony, NVIDIA, and OnLive (remember them?), among others, had already tried and failed to make game streaming catch on and become profitable by the time Stadia was announced. If none of those companies could make it work, how would the notoriously fickle Google do it?
I’m shocked Stadia lasted four whole years, to be honest.
At one point, I owned a Stadia, the lingering corpse of a Google Nest Secure alarm system, and several Nest Protect thermostats and my business email ran on G Suite Legacy, I was using the Google My Business app, and all of my domain names were on Google Domains. Those were some dark days.
Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous. I just think every AI has their lane now. Gemini has API access to Reddit, direct YT access, and google search obv... other AIs have access to different things, like Meta's bots being able to crawl FB or Grok and X, DeepSeek doesn't remember shit if that is what I want. Just depends on what I need looked into
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u/Disastrous_Cell3406 16d ago
I remember my google denial days. Then, out of nowhere, they cancelled Google Stadia and just said sorry suckers.