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Google Stadia closes two studios and cancels multiple projectsStadia will focus on third party partnerships
Stadia will focus on third party partnerships
Google have announced today that they are shutting down both of their Google Stadia game studios. They will focus on Stadia as a tech platform and making partnerships with third party studios to expand the service’s library of available games.
In theirofficial announcement, Google explain that they’ll be changing strategies for the Stadia platform.
Accordingto Kotaku, the closure of Google’s two game studios in Montreal and Los Angeles will impact around 150 employees who Google will attempt to find new roles for elsewhere in the company. According to Kotaku’s sources, this also means the cancellation of multiple projects that these studios had in development.
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Presciently, Katharine also said that “assuming Stadia doesn’t just blink out of existence in five years time (let’s try and be a little bit optimistic here), it’s definitely got potential as long as it can continue to build its game library with the type of big, mainstream games that people want to play.”
Stadia isn’t blinking out of existence, of course, but apparently its plans to develop games internally are. There’s still a potential for the game platform to be successful, but it sounds like they’ll really need to step up their tech to make playing the biggest games as smooth as possible on their streaming platform.
