Brave
Brave Especially with a company as famous for cancelling their own projects as Google, they were never going to persuade the number of people they needed to.
Well, this kind of isn’t helping with that reputation, tbh.
Google is shutting down Stadia
Well done Phil.
The refunds for hardware and software is a nice gesture that deserves a mention.
DrDamn that’s true
But then developers currently working on stadia exclusive games only finding out when we did, that kinda balances things back out 😉
Brave oh, ouch. 🙁
DrDamn I’d wager one of those was a Phil Harrison decision, but not both 😉
https://www.eurogamer.net/google-reportedly-turned-down-a-stadia-exclusive-death-stranding-successor
According to a new report from 9to5google, the project received initial approval but as it was intended to be a strictly single-player experience (instead of the asynchronous multiplayer in Death Stranding), the Kojima collaboration was cancelled as Google believed there was no longer a market for solo games. Despite reaching the early stages of development, the project was reportedly cancelled by Stadia’s general manager Phil Harrison in mid 2020 following the first mockups.
According to a new report from 9to5google, the project received initial approval but as it was intended to be a strictly single-player experience (instead of the asynchronous multiplayer in Death Stranding), the Kojima collaboration was cancelled as Google believed there was no longer a market for solo games.
Despite reaching the early stages of development, the project was reportedly cancelled by Stadia’s general manager Phil Harrison in mid 2020 following the first mockups.
Delicious
Seen a lot of comments recently saying that the culprit in all this is Google’s promotion system, which incentivises launches above all else.
Alex this is exactly why AWS has as many similar and overlapping products. I work for a company which has a lot of ex-FAANG staff and has adopted many of their practices, includes packets for bi-annual promo cycles. You can see why this happens.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ex-stadia-boss-phil-harrison-has-reportedly-left-google/
He managed to hang on for a good while. Despite being entirely invisible from about launch day onwards.