PSA: Google Stadia Shuts Down Tomorrow

Heads up, Stadia house owners: Google’s cloud gaming program is shutting down tomorrow, January 18. The service started issuing refunds for all {hardware} final November, however should you haven’t acquired one but, info on tips on how to receive one ought to have been emailed to the Google account used to make the acquisition. Nonetheless, previous Stadia Professional subscriptions is not going to obtain refunds.

There is a silver lining for these of you with Stadia controllers and nothing to make use of them for. The official Stadia Twitter account has introduced that it’s going to launch a self-serve software to allow Bluetooth connections. Whereas they haven’t introduced a particular date that this can happen, it ought to occur someday this week.

If you happen to missed the information concerning the shutdown, final September, Stadia’s VP and Common Supervisor stated in a weblog publish that “whereas Stadia’s method to streaming video games for shoppers was constructed on a robust know-how basis, it hasn’t gained the traction with customers that we anticipated so we’ve made the tough choice to start winding down our Stadia streaming service.” 

Stadia’s struggles had been no secret. Its first-party studios had been shut down simply over a yr in, with the service being “deprioritized” a yr later. Whereas it was an attention-grabbing experiment, some experiments are simply destined to fail. Relaxation in peace, Stadia.