• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    And the more they kill the more the reputation grows

    Like when stadia was announced my friends and I took bets on how long it would last or if any stadia exclusive games would ever get to launch

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      4 months ago

      Ironically, if Google were upfront about how it would handle the shutdown, it likely would have increased consumer confidence enough that Stadia may not have needed to be shutdown.

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        4 months ago

        Honestly yeah that probably would have been the case

        But if they were open about it then it probably would have gone over poorly with the shareholders and stock value by “openly planning to fail”

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          4 months ago

          Everyone already anticipates new Google services to fail. Expecting people to spend hundreds of dollars on content that is locked to a service run by a company that is known for canceling services after a couple of years was always going to fail.

          Stadia was essentially just a demo of Google’s cloud capabilities. Even if Stadia was a massive success, it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to Google’s ad revenue and have no impact on stock price.

    • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I still don’t understand how Google thought it had a chance at success. They had the same model as Onlive had 10 years prior. It ended up failing for much the same reasons.