Google Stadia is closing, but it might not be the end for your Stadia controller. Find out what you can do with it here.
Google Stadia is soon to be no more, with Google announcing that the service will shut down in January 2023.
The company is promising to refund anyone who bought Stadia hardware, which may come as some comfort to people who bought a Stadia controller as part of the Founder’s Edition or otherwise. But it doesn’t prevent the waste of a perfectly good piece of hardware. Handily, however, that Stadia controller isn’t completely useless, even when Google finally pulls the kill switch on its streaming gaming service in mid-January.
There are limitations here. You can only use the device as a wired controller, it doesn’t work wirelessly as a standard Bluetooth controller. The Stadia controller does have Bluetooth built in, so now Google is closing Stadia, it would be decent of the company to let people use it as a standard Bluetooth controller. I’m not holding my breath, though.
If you’re playing Steam games on your PC or Mac, you should find the controller is automatically detected and you can dip into the Steam preferences and calibrate the controller and toggle features such as rumble . Ironically, it also works with Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service and Nvidia’s GeForce Now if you’re looking for alternative cloud gaming services, although we didn’t get the rumble when streaming a game via Microsoft’s service.
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