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Even Google doesnt want to make games for Stadia anymore

by royka118 on 2/2/21, 7:14 PM with 16 comments

• by gcatalfamo on 2/2/21, 7:38 PM

  Amazon game studio is struggling the same, so it’s not totally put of place this time. However:

  FWIW, Stadia the console is an amazing product. It rendered useless buying a console in theory.

  If any Stadia team member is reading: I want to work with you in this amazing project.

  Unfortunately you need to have games on a console if you don’t want to make games (making them even at loss benefitted stadia image nonetheless) you need to license them and this is the turning point: you need a stronger acquisition strategy.

• by PaulHoule on 2/2/21, 7:18 PM

  If Google regularly kills products that people use and love, why can't they kill this one that nobody uses and nobody loves?

• by andrewmcwatters on 2/2/21, 9:05 PM

  Comparatively, making games is harder than making gaming hardware. It's incredible that I find fewer and fewer great games on the market these days when both the barrier to entry is lower, and the available technologies are so much more powerful.

  But I think the problem results from the above. The barrier to entry is so low that entrants don't make many fun games (there's just more of them), and the available technologies to saturate usage of are so expensive to fully utilize and staff for that making a fun game falls by the wayside (too few games produced by those that can make great games, and of those, most of them are not even good).