I bought hundreds of dollars worth of games and controllers. Now it's about to be worthless 🤦‍♂️

I’ve never tried Stadia. I never really thought it would go anywhere so the fact that it’s still around is impressive. But I hope other companies learn from this and either change what their doing or scrape it all together. Love the hair btw

Stadia was a fantastic platform. Sadly, it was Google, so this was expected from the start.

Stadia is targeted a none gamer who never google search something about gaming and truely believe every single gaming device cost around $10,000.

I thought about trying Stadia but since I'm either at work or ar home, remote console play just tends to do a bit better IMO. Google, Amazon (maybe even Apple) just aren't names for games.....make hardware, app software that's geared for communication...just don't do games

Google sent me a free stadia premier edition as a promo tied to my KZfaq premium at the end of 2020. Prior to that i played casually on ps4 and retros. I was a successful marketing conversion in that I started using stadia as my primary platform and still do today. My refund will be about $600. It makes me really sad to see it shut down. TBH anyone in the community would have said it felt like we were about to grow, not close (upcoming games, regional expansions, new UI teases, etc). Things were feeling promising, which makes this all the more shitty

In my opinion, cloud streaming is not dead, just somewhat starting. The fact that u don't have to download and update,be worryless about space on your drive, is one of the reasons I sticked around. everything just flows. but what happen is that when a good concept and product ends on the hands of bad business like Google, it wont last.

Raises hand: Made Stadia my primary way of gaming. Glad for that refund. I have been playing on cloud for almost two years. I may migrate over to Amazon Luna. EDIT: As for the future of cloud gaming. I disagree that Google's failure with Stadia sets that part of the industry back or somehow 'proves' it's not going to grow in the future. I don't believe Microsoft or Amazon are looking at Google Stadia and saying "Welp, pack it in" for their own cloud gaming investments. It's a niche gaming market. Massive companies like Amazon, Microsoft, NVidia etc don't make large investments in things they don't see potential for future returns on. I do agree with the first half of your video though. Google as a company simply lacked the will to see Stadia through the early years to find some returns or profit later.

I know I will be the only one but Cloud Gaming is the future. I might be the lucky guy living in some small Eastern EU country however the internet here is quite good. I can pay 5 EUR and have 100 Mbps fiber or 15 EUR and have 1 Gbps fiber. The whole country is covered by 4G/LTE and big cities with 5G. Cloud Gaming is for me the thing. I no longer need to own a bazillion of plastic boxes. I can just open the browser (or app), connect a controller, and boom, I am gaming AAA titles from the Cloud. I have been using this way Nvidia GeForce Now, Google Stadia, or Xbox Xcloud and the experience has always been decent. I understand that hardcore gamers need physical hardware for the lowest latency possible and the best graphics possible (aka 4K on their home OLED). I am not saying e-Sport will move to Cloud (probably never will). However, for casual gamers, Cloud is the best option as you do not have to own physical boxes. Maybe in the future Cloud will be possible for e-Sport too. And I am writing this comment as an owner of Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, Switch OLED, and LG CX55 4K OLED TV, who still loves the convenience of the Cloud.

They're shutting it down because our internet is shit here in the US. LOL

Congrats on reaching 30,000 subscribers!

geforce now is great, but when it comes to online competitive games like apex or fortnite, i feel like the latency is too much of a factor none the less playable, you just may not reach the heights you could on a physical machine

another point to be made is that gaming is also a collectors activity and that will include ownership of said video games you buy and since a lot of these companies are hell bent on subscription and streaming locking away products behind online only paying for access, very anti-customer

I wish I had stadia now. I don’t play old games anyway and I spent like thousands of $$ on games during stadia’s lifetime.

They have to pay that money to avoid the lawsuit.

You're so right about the Nintendo Switch and the Steam Deck. It has become so convenient for all types of gamers,casual or core gamers, to play remotely or at home with no hassle. I thank God for the Switch...I hope Nintendo continues with this path and others catch on as well 🙏🏾. I hope all is well with you too!!!! Xoxo

This may seem like splitting hairs, but.. wait, what was I going to say? 😂

Agree with your statements but I gotta say I love that transitioning light panel in the left side of the vid! Really cool I'll need to look out for something like that

Bro has been hitting the gym 💪🏼

I never got into Stadia, but I'm still raw about what they did to Google Reader, Google Music, Google Hangouts, Google Daydream. It's just never a good idea to invest in Google products when there are decent alternatives.

Omg really 😆 That sucks who bought games on there platform

I'm surprised Stadia lasted THIS long, with all the hate they got over the years. Glad they're refunding everyone's money, at least $160 Billion company took the bullet. Stadia was the first thing I uninstalled from my chromebook, not gonna miss it.

nice haircut. :)

In what can only be called the worst timing ever- I ordered a brand new Premiere Edition bundle from a retailer (not google) a matter of hours before the announcement. Oh well, I guess there's consolation in the controller working through USB for PC and the Chromecast Ultra having streaming use. Still, talk about throwing away $50 at the exact wrong time.

Honestly yes I think streaming is a great add on like game pass but if imma be honest I don’t think anyone would main it unless that all they got. I only ever use streaming at friends houses or school so 💯 agree

Honestly I think you should talk about that haircut

It's going to be interesting to see how Apple handles the upcoming AR device/platform that they are apparently working on, I don't think it's necessarily gonna be a guaranteed win for them.

Google kills Stadia and barely two weeks later they announce cloud gaming laptops......LMAO! You can't make this stuff up 🤣

This is not only a pro alien with google but any pay to stream/ online service. At any point a company can just stop their service and leave you dry. This happens with a indie Gigi campaign for a little companion robot that was online server based. Now you can no longer get the app for this little guy.

I tried number of streaming services (OnLive, GaiKai beta, ps now, GFN, xcloud). I have not tried Stadia even though there was a period with free trial or trial codes for grabs. I have to say I’m impressed google will do refunds. Back when OnLive was shutting down they stated according to out TOS we own you nothing, you loose access to games you purchased and the subscription service (they might have issues refunds for unused subscription period). I bought a few games and that was it, content gone. I was fully aware of the TOS and I bought games only on sales so I have not lost more than 15 bucks. But I have to say google approach is really good here. For me streaming is an addition but not main way of playing games. But it does not matter regardless what you use to play games the most important thing is to enjoy them! Have a nice time gaming!

I think cloud gaming will be main stream, someday. The internet will only get better with time, plus, less hardware means, less r&d, manufacturing plants, man power, overhead expenditures, etc..and higher net profits. Covid made it clear, everything will be online someday, and this needs the internet.

buzzcuts are very very hot just saying

Having to buy the games for stadia is the main problem. GFN, however is a great service that I highly recommend. I definitely believe that streaming games is the future. The only drawback of Google leaving the table is that companies can charge whatever they want without that other competitor drawing the price down for consumers. I also believe that Nintendo is going to do mergers with Nvidia to make their own games streamable in a big way. Either a cloud based switch system will prevail or the Nintendo library will be accessible via phone/tablet/PC/Mac.🌊

I am guessing that they have decided to cancel Stadia in place of another service which will be better. Maybe they couldn’t give us a better service with the current offering so the are cancelling in favour of another hopefully more improved service.

At least they're giving all your money back. They didn't have to, I'm guessing but yes, shows how much they were bleeding money if they were taking this step to just pay everyone back. To be fair, the sceptics did think this is exactly what would happen, because Google, because of their reputation. They were the wrong company to try to push game streaming. They just poisoned the concept for everyone else.

Considering big tech companies are more in line with adult daycares rather than having the brightest and best technicians and programmers, it's no surprise that Google starts and quickly kills projects left and right. Nobody there is capable and willing to upkeep and maintain it. Granted, Stadia was already redundantly obsolete at it's conception, but even great things wither and die on the vine with Google. Make something, support it, keep it running or don't do it all.

I think your hair is cute!

sry man, cloud streaming is GARBAGE

As a long time gamer since the 80s, I was interested in Stadia, but I never understood why I should buy it. They wanted me to buy a subscription and buy each game that's on it. Then I couldn't find a game that I wanted that was only available on Stadia. So I never signed up. If they had given it more time, maybe the developers that were working on games for it would have delivered, but even they found out the same day as the rest of us that Stadia was dead. RIP Stadia.

I had Google stadia and it was my only console for gaming. I loved it and had no problems with latency or anything cuz I had a really fast internet and I kept my modem in the room that I was playing in for the most part. After Google decided to shut down stadia I said you know what, I'm done with cloud gaming and I'm going to get the Xbox series x. Having Game pass and the cloud gaming option for my computer is nice but I don't want this to happen again where a company can just come in and basically take all of my games and progress and then say oops sorry about that here's some change back.

The recesion came and killed Stadia and many Google new projects not making money. Stadia is gone but still Google can sell the idea to game publishers like Ubisoft+. I think Google called "Immersive Stream for Games" They can pay Google for the Stadia Tech/Service to put their own name and have their own cloud gaming service (running on Google Servers) with a subcription using their account. They can sell their subcription and keep more money, because they won't need to pay comission to external stores. Google get paid for Stadia.

I hope you get a refund and look after yourself peace bro✌️♥️🙏

I know you didnt want us to talk about it, bout nice hair cut🙂

Please do Easysmx ESM-9124 controller 🤗

I made Stadia my main gaming service. Loved it. 90% of gaming sessions i had 0 lag. Mostly when i got too an Airport or a hotel with slow free internet did it act up. Unfortunately i have to disagree! Cloud Gaming is 100% the future of gaming with the exception of PC. I give consoles one more full generation before everything goes to cloud. Here is the proof!! Xbox tried eliminating physical discs with the XBox "2?" generations ago. And the community was Angry because they couldn't give their friends the disc to try the game or play at a friend's house. So Xbox walked it back. Then... Later that generation they go... Hey!!! Rather than stand in line at GameStop just download this game and play right away at midnight. And now EVERYONE just does that nobody buys physical discs. In the next 5 years most people in North America will have 5G in their pockets which is fast enough to play cloud. Xbox currently has cloud and PlayStation is doing..... Something with it. And Nintendo Switch uses cloud Gaming for more intense games that it can't run natively. PC its very common to play games streaming from a different spot in your house. It's not the future it's already here, just who's going to win the long run. (It wasn't Google) Side note Logitech just came out with a cloud gaining device also Razer! And this week cloud Gaming Chromebooks!

I looked at Stadia, but why would anyone who has a PS4/PS5/Xbox, or PC, ….buy Stadia? You can stream from those for free from your phone to your console/PC at home if you really want to. Plus you have the game on console when your at home. I find that game streaming only really works well at home anyway…good for couch gaming.

it's been awhile since I've watched one of your vids. sorry I haven't been on KZfaq like that lately. lately I've been dealing with that pandemic sickness annoyingly enough.......... props on the haircut. bigger props on mic you still have kept that retro style but modernized. I like it. on to Stadia: you've basically said everything of why I think it failed one of the bigger reasons being it's Google so yeah....... but to the Stadia users which there were many on the bird app in self denial many have said it to them that its not running that strong, definitely getting defensive on the Stadia jokes, comments saying well ppl are saying this about it and they haven't even tried it. there's a reason why and that's why: hardware. ppl typically like to game on the actual hardware having the stream stuff as a side cause for the reasons you've already outlined streaming doesn't compare to playing on the original equipment. I'm sorry they thought it was really going strong which many of them have claimed. I avoided making any jokes directly to them about Stadia but did ask more than once do they see it staying alive. many answers yes. here we are today. the guy in charge behind it has recently joined with Sony blaming an acquisition of Microsoft's (that hasnt even finalized yet) so reports are. your thoughts?

The average big tech company doesn't seem to understand the level of commitment it takes to make a successful gaming platform. You're either all in or you're nothing. You're either willing to spend billions of dollars to acquire Zenimax or you're not. Even Facebook, who is betting the farm on whatever they think the metaverse is, is letting Quest die on the vine with a sad trickle of overpriced games and doesn't seem to be concerned that Superhot and Beat Saber are their top games month after month, year after year. Amazon has flirted with gaming in fits and starts but has no coherent strategy and clearly considers gaming a side project at best. Even Apple, who accidentally became caretakers of the world's largest gaming platform, seems to have no idea what to do with it. The current market reminds me of the flood of CD-Rom systems in the early 90s. Philips, 3DO, Commodore, and even Apple thought they could just put some reasonably powerful hardware out on the market and then step away and collect royalties.

Wait wait so they try to make this a thing. Mobile games in a cloud version. I had to look this up. The only cloud game I play is guardians of the Galaxy and it actually plays very well in the Nintendo switch, probably because it doesn't play natively but it plays very good. But I also play with the OLED version and the dock does have a ethernet port and it does play better in dock mode. I do have a friend that has a lot of issues with the kingdom hearts games. Those are cloud versions on the switch but we have noticed that a lot of the PlayStation games on switch which are all cloud based games are horrible and they are full priced games and they're over 20 years old 😒😒😒 I recommendation is get an Xbox series. S. But I heard great things about steamdeck!

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The reason why stadia died is because they don’t understand video games fans or development. The had a couple of studios when stadia first launch and they thought it took 2 years for games to come out. First mistake The next is the head of stadia is not a gamer or don’t understand it from what I’m told. Cloud gaming shouldn’t be the main focus. Look at game pass, streaming is there but you can play games locally on your Xbox.

Game streaming is terrible, I will never pay for something I won’t own physically.

Stadia was my favorite way to play. I loved being able to buy a game and then just play. No long downloads and the freedom to access my 200 game library anywhere I had a high speed connection. It is a great service that never really caught on in no small part because of Google's bad reputation. After closing Stadia it's going to be a really hard sell to get me to go all in on any other product Google launches. In the end Google is not a tech company. It's an advertising company. They don't really care about any product they launch because in the end it's only a small part of their review stream and will never compare to what they are actually selling... Their customers. Now I'm moving over to GeForce now 3080 tier. The graphics are great but it's overall responsiveness is not as good as Stadia. I'm also trying out the Steam Deck. It's far more versatile than my Switch. But I digress. My point is Google SUCKS and I'll never trust them again after this BS!

"Digital Amish" saw Stadia demise as a fact of that Game Streaming is not the future. Most of that is fear, that makes sense giving the fact that the 2 big platforms failed (OnLive and Stadia). I cannot necessarily agree on that. The MAJOR problem with Stadia was: Google. Their incompetence in marketing, knowing nothing about gaming etc etc etc. The lack of catalog was mindblowing. The second big problem was USA (not European) connections and data caps. If you first BIG market have this problem. If Google have used the posibilities of the cloud to make games that will be possible IMPOSSIBLE to do in console and PC, it will be a very compelling platform. Those 2 problems can be easily fixed in the near future. Let's see.

Th e future of games will always be a console for 50 years consoles have been a thing yeah with atari

Cloud gaming is whatever. Cloud storefronts are bad. idk how many people are going to try it but. paying for full time rentals and paying more than what they cost to keep is stupid.

i think its dead ... you can see even amazon luna they have not added any noteworthy games in forever. One thing is for sure ... if luna does shut down, game streaming is officially dead. If AWS doesn't make it work nobody can.

Stadia was a bad idea from the get go streaming a game isn't inherently a bad idea but it needs to be a plus to a subscription not a service in and of itself games aren't movies there's more of a time and personal investment in them so yah who actually wants to Play Red dead 2 on there phone for 60 dollars that what killed Stadia

So Onlive was the future of Gaming and fails, Now Stadia was the Future of Gaming and fails. Yes Cloud Gaming will have its place but only has an Obtion 😌. In the next 30-50 years Consoles and PC's will be dominate Gaming has always.

Eh, just jump to nVidia GeForce Now if you can't afford a gaming computer. No need to buy a hugely expensive gaming computer and you can play most of your Steam games.

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