Yesterday the news broke that everyone had been waiting for a long time. Google has shut down Stadia and has made the decision to return all the money invested in hardware and games to all users, which means millions in losses for the technology corporation. However, those are not going to be all the losses you take. And now we know that Google spent tens of millions to bring games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Assassin’s Creed to Stadia. So he gave it to know journalist Jason Schreier for the Bloomberg media.
“I already reported it last year in Bloomberg, but the amount of money Google has spent on getting games for Stadia is so impressive that I still can’t believe it, even after checking with multiple sources. We talk about tens of millions of dollars per game for Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin’s Creed, etc.”, says Schreier. Google has also left in the lurch developers who were working on games exclusively for Stadia and are now left in limbo.
Several developers protest not having been notified of the closure of Stadia and fear they will not be paid
They are not the only ones, since others exclusive to the system, such as gilt from the Spanish studio Tequila Works, are now trapped on an officially dead platform with a very uncertain future. What is clear is that the great winner and survivor of the end of Stadia is Xbox CloudGamingwhich has integrated cloud gaming through Xbox Game Pass and the entire Xbox ecosystem with great success.