Stadia is shutting down for good in January.
"While Stadia's approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service," Stadia general manager Phil Harrison wrote.
Stadia owners will continue to have access to their libraries until January 18, 2023, and all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Google Store, and game and add-on content purchases made through the Stadia store, will be refunded. Most refunds are expected to be completed by mid-January. Despite Stadia's failure to catch on with gamers, Harrison said the technology behind it"has been proven at scale and transcends gaming."
"We see clear opportunities to apply this technology across other parts of Google like YouTube, Google Play, and our Augmented Reality efforts—as well as make it available to our industry partners, which aligns with where we see the future of gaming headed," he wrote."We remain deeply committed to gaming, and we will continue to invest in new tools, technologies and platforms that power the success of developers, industry partners, cloud customers and creators.
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