Cloud gaming service Stadia joins a long list of Google services that the company has discontinued over the years. The software giant announced that the operation of the Stadia service, which is also available through Samsung's gaming platform gaming hub on its smart TVs, will be discontinued early next year.
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Google will refund all Stadia hardware that customers purchased through the Google Play Store. It will also refund all games and expansion content purchases made through the Stadia store. Players will have access to their game library until January 18th next year. Google expects most refunds to be completed by mid-January.
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The company with the service, which it already launched in 2019 (a year later it also arrived to us), ends because "didn't get the attention we expected". Not many users will probably regret its end, as it is considered one of the least user-friendly gaming cloud platforms. As Google says the technology on which Stadia is built has proven itself, it can imagine using it in other areas of its ecosystem, including YouTube, augmented reality or Google Play.
