[drusepth]

>few believe Stadia will stay around

I think the people that still think Stadia is gonna shut down any time soon are just the gamer blogs/communities that have been running shutdown rumor pieces every month or so for the last 3 years. (Most recently the killedbygoogle guy's "my friend heard on facebook that Stadia's shutting down..." post that went viral.)

Stadia's actively signing hardware deals with Samsung/LG and other smart TV manufacturers, and about to expand availability to even more countries. AFAICT most people that actually play on Stadia don't think it'll shut down any time soon.

[hammyhavoc]

Twitter users who apparently play Stadia tell quite a different story in every encounter I've had with them.

[sofixa]

I play Stadia. Couples of weeks ago, ToS change. Couple of days ago, an ad on my LG TV that if i sign up for Stadia i get 3 months free, and the Stadia app is very prominently shown in the Applications menu. Same on my ISP's Android TV box. Each month ~10 games get added to the Stadia Pro tier.

Stadia isn't going anywhere soon, or the people working in the division haven't been told and have continued spending money left and right with partnership deals, which would be a weird waste of money.

[effingwewt]

'Stadia isn't going anywhere soon, or the people working in the division haven't been told and have continued spending money left and right with partnership deals, which would be a weird waste of money.'

LOL, that is Google 101.

Allow me to introduce you to the Google Graveyard[1]

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

[sofixa]

Very few, if any, of those killed by Google things, are products one paid for, let alone had paid partnerships with third parties. The situation really isn't comparable.

[hammyhavoc]

They just killed IoT Core.

[sofixa]

Which hasn't received updates since 2019. Unlike Stadia, which not only gets updates every month, has recent ads in third parties.

Google are still investing money and in Stadia. It's unlikely they'll shut it down soon. In most of the things they killed, there had been no investment for some time before the official announcement.

[effingwewt]

Well said, I had no words- this is literally a thread about them doing just that.

Also not just killing but making worse like the Nvidia Shield.

How are there still googlw apologists?

[pjmlp]

This year GDC Google announced a new support libraries for migration into Stadia, as very few studios want to mess with Linux and Vulkan, and then be told Stadia is no more.