AbsolutSurgen Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Quote Google Stadia, the late 2019 streaming platform that promised to revolutionize gaming by letting users stream games without needing to own a powerful PC or console, is altering course, getting out of the game-making business and will now offer its platform directly to game publishers alongside offering Stadia Pro to the public. The company is announcing the news today, though Kotaku began to hear rumblings from sources close to Stadia last week that Google’s service was heading for a major change. One games industry source told Kotaku that Google was canceling multiple projects, basically any games slated for release beyond a specific 2021 window, though they believed games close to release would still come out. Today brings some clarification. Google will close its two game studios, located in Montreal and Los Angeles. That closure will impact around 150 developers, one source familiar with Stadia operations said. The company says it will try to find those developers new roles at Google. Jade Raymond, the veteran producer who helped build Assassin’s Creed for Ubisoft and moved on to EA several years ago before leaving to run game creation at Stadia, is exiting the company, according to Google. Google will continue to operate the Stadia gaming service and its $10 monthly Stadia Pro service. It’s unclear how many, if any, exclusive games will still come to the service, though the company has indicated that it can still sign new games. It nevertheless will look to many like a draw down of the plan to have Stadia run as a bona fide competitor to console platforms. Shocking. Google shutting down a division. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Does that mean Typhoon Studios (Journey to the Savage Planet) is already dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 1 minute ago, crispy4000 said: Does that mean Typhoon Studios (Journey to the Savage Planet) is already dead? It looks like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Deal with the devil, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Funny Jade Raymond gets a special shout out when she has not made a single game since leaving Ubisoft. bummer about Typhoon Studios. I like Journey to the Savage Planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 When SV meets game development reality, can't just throw $$$ and expect something done in 3-6 months like they're use to. Stadia tech will end up as a GCP product before years end for devs to use but Stadia itself will be dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I find it difficult to understand the decision making here. Why go through the trouble of purchasing and setting up this whole division if you're not going to give them time to make games? Why build out a platform like this if you can't give it any time to catch on? It's so odd to me they'd get to this point, having thrown all this money at it, and decide now to start shutting things down. It doesn't surprise me, but it's still strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 12 minutes ago, TwinIon said: Why go through the trouble of purchasing and setting up this whole division if you're not going to give them time to make games? Google 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Google works like network TV, it announces all new shows and then cancels all but the top performing ones. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 6 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said: Google works like network TV, it announces all new shows and then cancels all but the top performing ones. Nah Google is way more irrational about it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 3 hours ago, TwinIon said: I find it difficult to understand the decision making here. Why go through the trouble of purchasing and setting up this whole division if you're not going to give them time to make games? Tax cut? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Someone buy the remnants of Typhoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Typhoon should have gone to MS. Maybe Google offered more money. Maybe they can form a new studio and see if MS is still interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaxick Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Stadia Reddit is on full on freakout mode over this. Everybody saw this coming expect for them. I knew this was happening real soon when Google started giving away Stadia kits for free to paid subscribers of YouTube. I'm very curious as to what will happen to the customers who purchased games from this as this will be the first instance of a games streaming service shutting down that sold games. Prior to this, it's all been subscription based. Hope the crew over at Typhoon lives on in some capacity. Journey to the Savage Planet was a fantastic first outing for a startup games studio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 5 hours ago, Dodger said: Typhoon should have gone to MS. Maybe Google offered more money. Maybe they can form a new studio and see if MS is still interested. Typhoon should have gone anywhere but Google (or Amazon). MS isn't the only publisher with money either, lots of places are funding studios their size these days. Everyone from the THQ's to the EA's and SquareEnix's. They kind of had to go out of their way to find a partner as bad as they did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 I am sure the owner of Typhoon knew Google’s history but didn’t give af because of the tendies. Feel bad for the employees who didn’t profit from Google purchase and are know out of a job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 First step towards the Google Services Graveyard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Stadia was working on Savage Planet 2, a multiplayer project and more | VGC WWW.VIDEOGAMESCHRONICLE.COM This month's decision to end internal development resulted in dozens of cancellations… Quote The Google cloud gaming division cancelled a multiplayer game led by a former Assassin’s Creedcreative, a sequel to Journey to the Savage Planetand backed out of proposals for Hideo Kojima(Death Stranding) and Yu Suzuki (Outrun) to create exclusive games for Stadia, the sources said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDunks4 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 This should kill Stadia completely. Part of their sales pitch was exclusive content that would take advantage of cloud computing and allow things to be done that wouldn't be possible on one system. Also the whole integration with YouTube for their exclusive games or whatever that was all about. Entire thing was just terrible thought out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 Stadia head of product has departed Google WWW.GAMESINDUSTRY.BIZ John Justice had joined the company in 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 He and others have joined Haven Studios, who's working with Sony on a new game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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