{"id":17467,"date":"2022-09-29T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/stadia-is-shutting-down-in-january\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:46:57","slug":"stadia-is-shutting-down-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/stadia-is-shutting-down-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadia is shutting down in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nGoogle is shutting down Stadia, with the beleaguered cloud gaming service set to remain live for players until 18th January 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStadia&#8217;s misfortunes are, of course, well-documented; despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2019-stadia-tech-review\">initial praise<\/a> for the service&#8217;s streaming capabilities at launch in 2019, a slow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/google-issues-statement-after-stadia-owners-say-it-broke-promises-over-game-performance\">problematic<\/a> roll-out meant Google failed to capitalise on initial consumer interest. The extent of Stadia&#8217;s failings started to became clear when the company announced it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/google-shutting-down-internal-stadia-studios-offering-streaming-tech-to-publishers\">closing its first-party game development studios<\/a> less that 14 months after launch, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/new-reports-detail-stadias-demise-cancelled-projects-and-wasted-millions\">subsequent reports<\/a> claiming the streaming platform was missing its targets for monthly active users by hundreds of thousands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd while Google continued to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/google-wants-you-to-know-stadia-is-still-alive-and-well\">insist<\/a> Stadia was &#8220;alive and well&#8221; as 2021 progressed, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/stadia-reportedly-deprioritised-as-google-focuses-on-selling-streaming-tech-to-third-parties\">claimed<\/a> it had &#8220;deprioritised&#8221; the consumer-facing side of its game streaming platform, having largely shifted its focus to selling the services&#8217; underlying technology to third-parties.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/stadia-is-shutting-down-in-january\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. 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