Vapourware Google Stadia - "a game streaming service for everyone"

[The_Sloth_Sleeps]

Stadia might be dead. But now its technology powers a cloud demo instantly playable in your browser. https://blog.google/products/stadia/discovery-and-trial-immersive-stream-for-games/

First game is Resident Evil Village: https://play.cid.capcom.com/

It's only available in countries that Stadia serves though.

Its stuck on the loading screen.

 

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[rusty_shackleford]

nothing convinces me to buy a game quite like the demo not working

 

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[anvi]

I feel like this is giving villages a bad name, which offends me as a village idiot.

 

[Venser]

Spoiler

Scoop: Two hot games' secret Google connection​

• Stephen Totilo, author of Axios Gaming

The Quarry. Screenshot: Supermassive, Take Two
Google was involved in the creation of two notable video games in the spotlight this month, before the downsizing of its Stadia gaming operation sent those projects elsewhere, two sources familiar with their development tell Axios.
Why it matters: The games’ Google connections help fill out a picture of what Stadia could have offered, if Google hadn’t abandoned its ambitions in 2021 to create a gaming platform to rival PlayStation and Xbox.
Details: Neither of the games — the well-reviewed horror adventure The Quarry, and comedic sci-fi game High on Life — has been officially associated with Stadia.

• The Quarry, developed by Supermassive and published by Take Two Interactive, was released on June 10 for PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
• High On Life, from Squanch Games and a team led by "Rick and Morty" co-creator Justin Roiland, was revealed during a Microsoft gaming showcase last week and is slated for an Xbox and PC release later this year.
• But Axios sources say both games were projects that previously were being made for Google and presented as signature Stadia releases, meant to draw players to the streaming service.

What they’re saying: Reps for both games declined to directly answer Axios’ questions about the games’ Stadia roots.

• Supermassive Games “was looking for a publishing partner as the project came to completion,” a rep for Take Two said of The Quarry, noting the publisher was proud to help release the game.
• Google had announced a partnership with Supermassive in 2020, but neither party had shared details on what they were making. When The Quarry was announced by Supermassive and Take Two this past March, Stadia fans were left guessing if it was the product of that Google partnership.
• A spokesperson for Squanch offered less context and simply stated which platform High on Life is slated for.
• A Google rep did not reply to a request for comment.

Catch up quick: Google announced Stadia in March 2019, attempting to shake up the games industry with a device-free cloud-based platform and a line-up of games from a mix of outside studios and internal teams staffed by veteran game designers.

• But an awkward roll-out, confusing price structure and lack of exclusive games at launch has hampered the project.
• In February 2021, Google began closing its internal studios. Its underlying cloud tech has since been licensed by AT&T to offer 5G subscribers access to a top Batman game and by Capcom to allow people to play a demo of the latest Resident Evil game in a web browser.

The big picture: In the super-secret video game industry, projects can be in development for years at major companies, with no stakeholders so much as acknowledging them.

• When a publisher or platform provider begins cutting projects, those games can be lost, or sometimes reemerge in unexpected ways.

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/17/the-quarry-high-on-life-google-stadia

 

[Venser]

Scoop: Two hot games' secret Google connection​

• Stephen Totilo, author of Axios Gaming

The Quarry. Screenshot: Supermassive, Take Two
Google was involved in the creation of two notable video games in the spotlight this month, before the downsizing of its Stadia gaming operation sent those projects elsewhere, two sources familiar with their development tell Axios.
Why it matters: The games’ Google connections help fill out a picture of what Stadia could have offered, if Google hadn’t abandoned its ambitions in 2021 to create a gaming platform to rival PlayStation and Xbox.
Details: Neither of the games — the well-reviewed horror adventure The Quarry, and comedic sci-fi game High on Life — has been officially associated with Stadia.

• The Quarry, developed by Supermassive and published by Take Two Interactive, was released on June 10 for PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
• High On Life, from Squanch Games and a team led by "Rick and Morty" co-creator Justin Roiland, was revealed during a Microsoft gaming showcase last week and is slated for an Xbox and PC release later this year.
• But Axios sources say both games were projects that previously were being made for Google and presented as signature Stadia releases, meant to draw players to the streaming service.

What they’re saying: Reps for both games declined to directly answer Axios’ questions about the games’ Stadia roots.

• Supermassive Games “was looking for a publishing partner as the project came to completion,” a rep for Take Two said of The Quarry, noting the publisher was proud to help release the game.
• Google had announced a partnership with Supermassive in 2020, but neither party had shared details on what they were making. When The Quarry was announced by Supermassive and Take Two this past March, Stadia fans were left guessing if it was the product of that Google partnership.
• A spokesperson for Squanch offered less context and simply stated which platform High on Life is slated for.
• A Google rep did not reply to a request for comment.

Catch up quick: Google announced Stadia in March 2019, attempting to shake up the games industry with a device-free cloud-based platform and a line-up of games from a mix of outside studios and internal teams staffed by veteran game designers.

• But an awkward roll-out, confusing price structure and lack of exclusive games at launch has hampered the project.
• In February 2021, Google began closing its internal studios. Its underlying cloud tech has since been licensed by AT&T to offer 5G subscribers access to a top Batman game and by Capcom to allow people to play a demo of the latest Resident Evil game in a web browser.

The big picture: In the super-secret video game industry, projects can be in development for years at major companies, with no stakeholders so much as acknowledging them.

• When a publisher or platform provider begins cutting projects, those games can be lost, or sometimes reemerge in unexpected ways.

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/17/the-quarry-high-on-life-google-stadia

 

[Fedora Master]

Nothing. It could have offered nothing and it does offer nothing. Shit article.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

So stadia collapsed? How shocking. Does anything run through stadia?

 

[Duraframe300]

So stadia collapsed? How shocking. Does anything run through stadia?

It still exists, but nobody cares.

The games offered through its subscription don't stress hardware at all, so you're better off buying them normally. They also have zero chance against Microsoft and Sony, because those both offer bigger libraries and games you normally can't get on PC or you might actually have a pc not strong enough to play them at the same quality. (XBOX already as they offer XBOX Series X versions and Sony in the future with PS5 versions of games).

Stadia has no market and is just slowly dying.

 

[Modron]

Besides Amazon's Luna has it beat since it has both Judgment games. Only reason to ever use a game streaming service since you can't get those elsewhere on pc.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Stadia requiring you to buy games on their platform rather than bring your own game(GFN) or come with a library(Game pass/etc) was what killed it.

 

[Naraya]

It's official:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023

Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023. Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as all the games and add-on content purchased from the Stadia store. Google expects those refunds will be completed in mid-January.



Does it make GeForce Now the only player left in this field?

 

[Melcar]

Shocking.

 

[Dexter]

Ahh another shitty epic vapoware project to be shelved soon by retarded Google(TM)

It'll soon just be another entry here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services

https://gcemetery.co/
https://killedbygoogle.com/

Someone should Update these, only the last link contains this explosive development so far.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Luna will fail next.

Jesus must be disappointed after purchase...

How could it fail if Black God & Jesus supported it?

Rerez was right...

 

[Melcar]

Game streaming vs. game AI upscaling

Which is better and why?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Does it make GeForce Now the only player left in this field?

Stadia/Luma aren't the same kind of service as GFN/Shadow/etc.,
Former requires you to buy games on their platform, latter is equivalent to renting a VM.

This was always doomed to failure the moment they didn't let people bring their own games, or at least have a large library of games that came with the subscription like xbox's xcloud.

 

[Alienman]

Any exclusives that get lost to history with this?

 

[The_Sloth_Sleeps]

It's official:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023

Google is shutting down Stadia, its cloud gaming service. The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023. Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as all the games and add-on content purchased from the Stadia store. Google expects those refunds will be completed in mid-January.



Does it make GeForce Now the only player left in this field?

Great news. Hope they now shut all their data centres while they're at it.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

laughing loud. so damn loud.

 

[Lutte]

Will they refund the retards who bought games on stadia? the only respectable streaming model is the GFNow style.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the only respectable streaming model is the GFNow style.

except for the part where they cucked out to publishers because they didn't want to sour relations with them