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by WanjohiRyan 809 days ago
Google Stadia

Stadia's shutdown was a great loss in the gaming world.

Its social elements were ahead of their time, allowing for unprecedented levels of interaction and connectivity.

Other platforms are still catching up to how easy it was to jump into a game with friends, share game states, or even stream your gameplay with the press of a button; no queuing.

Unfortunately, much of Stadia's potential was undercut by Google's marketing strategy :(

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The extra tragic thing is that if Google had committed up front to refund users in the event of shutdown - AKA the thing they actually did - they might have mitigated the fears that kept people off the platform in the first place.