Shocking. https://t.co/uEIjMyPqMk

— mat honan (@mat) September 29, 2022

These decisions are never easy.

Have to applaud Google for making a big bet and entering into the cloud gaming space - driving a ton of innovation for this type of gaming experience.

Hope everyone who has continued to work on Stadia finds a good landing spot within Google. https://t.co/rFbVO81Cvw

— Josh Munsee (@joshmunsee) September 29, 2022

never used it but assume it's another messaging app https://t.co/vj0tmo2DQ3

— 9to5Mac (@9to5mac) September 29, 2022

who could've possibly seen this coming https://t.co/AOm5dVbzcW

— Andi Hamilton (@andihero) September 29, 2022

It is truly unfortunate that the "I give this x years until Google shuts this down" memes continue to be correct year after year, but here we are.

Still, it was a good step in creating a push towards cloud gaming in the industry. And I loved the controller.

RIP https://t.co/srxRYgoWye

— David ImeI (@DurvidImel) September 29, 2022

Stadia dying is such an amazing Rocket Rule scenario. I’m laughing so hard.

— Christina Warren (@film_girl) September 29, 2022

Apple didn't approve an iOS version of Stadia with gameplay. Other streaming services face the same problem: Apple says each title needs to be separately reviewed. That's unreasonable, but more flexibility on Apple's side probably wouldn't have made Stadia commercially viable. https://t.co/cFbsMfM2rS

— Florian Mueller (@FOSSpatents) September 29, 2022

genuinely quite sad about this.

as someone who doesnt game often, Stadia has been great. goood performance, great games, actually good latency.

i see myself gaming less because of this, not moving to something else like GeForce now or whatever microsofts one is called https://t.co/lp1mNNp6nU

— Domenico Lamberti (@Mobile_Dom) September 29, 2022

The shame is that I think there is a market for cloud gaming. And if there is, this all comes down to the implementation and business model. Or maybe the initial lack of trust that this day would come. https://t.co/CpCoPpmK9g

— Kevin C. Tofel 🇺🇦 (@KevinCTofel) September 29, 2022

Google already had a terrible reputation when it comes to killing products resulting in places like @killedbygoogle and https://t.co/s3WCL3111Y.

Now it's going to tank to a new low. Who will trust them to keep a major initiative going? We've been burned so many times.

— Artem Russakovskii 🇺🇦 (@ArtemR) September 29, 2022

When we said don't buy games from a streaming platform, this is why https://t.co/HEmiWZ10hd

— Devindra Hardawar (@Devindra) September 29, 2022

Google Stadia will be merging with Google Meet/Hangouts to become the new Google Hangouts with Meet Stadia. Separately, Google Stadea will continue to operate independently, but soon will merge with Google's other streaming game service, Google Stado, which was rebranded from the https://t.co/uqhn7vXSyL

— Zach N. Hofer-Shall (@znh) September 29, 2022

I know people memed on it, but it was good to have a cheaper way to play games out there that didn't necessarily require purchasing a console or high end computer. I know friends who started and had great communities in Destiny on Stadia.

It's a damn shame. https://t.co/xDWUZ5HKlR

— My name is Byf (Lore Daddy) (@MyNameIsByf) September 29, 2022

Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it. I'm not sure why it exists. But it seems to exist because it *could*. Google knew how to make it, & it would be a good thing for Google if people wanted it, so they just *made* it & assumed the reasons why would follow.

— mcc (@mcclure111) November 18, 2019

From Google's Stadia eulogy

- Google will refund all Stadia hardware purchases through the Google Store & games + addons through the Stadia Store
- Majority of refunds to be completed mid-January
- Stadia's tech will be used by other products & industry partners

— Nibel (@Nibellion) September 29, 2022

This is tragic, but I can't say I'm surprised. The writing has been on the wall for months https://t.co/uqHcEZtBBi pic.twitter.com/MLFUnPfxfb

— Brian Fung (@b_fung) September 29, 2022

RIP, Stadia. The refund part is a surprise. The ideas never got to evolve into what I thought would happen, but cloud gaming’s sticking around. https://t.co/ocfefTzJ8U

— Scott Stein (@jetscott) September 29, 2022

Maybe the people who keep popping up in my mentions convinced that Assassin's Creed Mirage will come to Stadia and not just Luna will quit it.

Hope everyone at Stadia lands on their feet. https://t.co/644Kx4MB58

— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) September 29, 2022

Please check in on your local stadian (singular) https://t.co/efWBxrMVps

— cullen; guy who owns a sega saturn (@DrCullenPHD) September 29, 2022

Goat Simulator x Fortnite happened the same day Google announced Stadia is being shut down. pic.twitter.com/OB64jOLa1J

— 🎄 Santa Ricky (@_FireMonkey) September 29, 2022

Left: Google Stadia boss Phil Harrison to me in 2019
Right: Google Stadia boss Phil Harrison three years later pic.twitter.com/VEGTDlYHuY

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) September 29, 2022

Imagine if this company had been allowed to build a neighbourhood in Toronto. https://t.co/6IEcSdshHz

— James McLeod (@jamespmcleod) September 29, 2022

It was obvious to everyone except Google apparently that this service was destined to being shut down.

They kept canceling bits and pieces of it each year but kept pretending there was still a core product left to save.

Until there was nothing left. https://t.co/7T8ONwSZT1

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) September 29, 2022

Spooky season is almost upon us — which scary games do you have queued up?

— Stadia ☁️🎮 (@GoogleStadia) September 27, 2022

RIP Stadia

you...existed https://t.co/PRZHi1xHxr

— Paul Tassi (@PaulTassi) September 29, 2022

Only 4 months of life left in Stadia. What a huge bummer, we use it nightly.

"Players will continue to have access to their games library and play through Jan 18, 2023 so they can complete final play sessions. We expect to have the majority of refunds completed by mid-Jan, 2023"

— Artem Russakovskii 🇺🇦 (@ArtemR) September 29, 2022

man oh man. the tech worked! it was everything else https://t.co/eb71PbGLm5

— Andy Orin (@andyorin) September 29, 2022

A sad development that I think we all saw coming for, oh, a good three years or so. https://t.co/n28jo3Adov

— Tim Stevens (@Tim_Stevens) September 29, 2022

but... game streaming is the future https://t.co/TGGLC2AxIU

— 🖲️ tom (morning mist era) 🖲️ (@slimefiend) September 29, 2022

"We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Google Store, and all game and add-on content purchases made through the Stadia store. Players will continue to have access to their games library and play through January 18, 2023..." https://t.co/yPSavtw9LC

— Wario64 (@Wario64) September 29, 2022

I Googled to see if anyone ever got a Stadia tattoo, and... Google did not let me down on this one. https://t.co/2P8t5dRz1S

— Gabe Rivera (@gaberivera) September 29, 2022

The Verge: Google Stadia to shut down on January 18https://t.co/KXjAtCIwrn pic.twitter.com/Fb4ufY0lC3

— Nibel (@Nibellion) September 29, 2022

Press F to pay respects to Google Stadia

Shutting down for good in January 2023. Can’t say I’m surprised tbh.

— Jon (@MrDalekJD) September 29, 2022

Google continues steadily culling its science fair projects while Amazon held a big event yesterday including upgrading "Hunches" for Alexa so that it will detect if your kid is eating crayons again and yell "nein" at them in a stern German accent. https://t.co/nUDFb81SzO

— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) September 29, 2022

It’s still weird to look back and see how poorly it launched. Maybe soon Googlers can explain the huge disconnect that must have occurred: https://t.co/5w7Wkw8LyS

— Sean Hollister (@StarFire2258) September 29, 2022

Confirmed by Google: Stadia is donehttps://t.co/W1TKwJrP8v pic.twitter.com/5ttGDjqj5z

— Nibel (@Nibellion) September 29, 2022

Stadia's death was a long time coming, but still shocking it took them this long after shutting down their internal studios to throw in the towel. I have to wonder why they delayed the inevitable for so long when it meant consumer purchases / employee livelihood on the line.

— Nick Statt (@nickstatt) September 29, 2022

they need the "stadia" name for a new messaging service https://t.co/l4pJLUuqO0

— Anil (@anildash) September 29, 2022

Google spent a gazillion dollars trying to crack video games. Couldn’t do it. Amazon is also flailing. Helps explain, sorta, why Microsoft wants to pay $70 billion for Activision. https://t.co/CK9Dm3GMXD https://t.co/Dn0JXAjXzs

— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) September 29, 2022

this is the biggest inherent problem with cloud gaming. stadia is going down, so you lose your whole library forever with nothing to show for it. imagine if google wasn't doing refunds https://t.co/E6n0nGLtMd

— FZP | SolarBeam (@SolRidley) September 29, 2022

Google killing Stadia is very sad and not even one tiny little bit surprising https://t.co/6Qhvt7aGB1

— David Pierce (@pierce) September 29, 2022

Stadia was pronounced dead as soon as Google announced it. It simply launched too soon and felt beta for a long time. I liked it a lot, but the world isn’t ready for cloud-only game streaming just yet. Cloud is successful when it’s an option right now pic.twitter.com/8cdcC687Li

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) September 29, 2022

it's still so crazy to me how everyone said "this isn't gonna work, it won't last very long" and that's exactly what happened. https://t.co/tqDaPSxvzi

— 🟡Noah N. Copeland🟡GAME OUT! (@NoahNCopeland) September 29, 2022

Oh my god https://t.co/3lX9ExEfKB

We have a game coming to Stadia in November. Who wants to guess that Google will refuse to pay us the money they owe us for it

— Mike Rose (@RaveofRavendale) September 29, 2022

Godspeed stadia, you were the only way people could run cyberpunk higher than 35 fps at launch

— Ralph Boxxy (@Java_jigga) September 29, 2022

Damn. The hardware was honestly great but never found a real reason to use it https://t.co/oqh5tekAmj

— Austin Johnsen (@AustinJ) September 29, 2022

Everybody fucking called it on day 1. Not only does game streaming just not work well enough to be a platform, but this is Google and this is what Google does.

At least they’re refunding everybody’s purchases. https://t.co/8wiA28sq5r

— FreakZone Games 👾 (@FreakZoneGames) September 29, 2022

stadians…how are we gonna worm our way out of this one… https://t.co/IQlQr5JznK

— Aizen alone against all (@AerospaceCowboy) September 29, 2022

Shoutout to Cody, who has been locked out of @killedbygoogle but today isn't Stadia is Dead day, it's Cody was right day https://t.co/XMDJbb06l7

— Ian Morris (@IanMorris78) September 29, 2022

Stadia is finally giving up, it says a lot about the viability of streaming games that it couldn't survive even with the help of the pandemic making people spend more time at home.https://t.co/tbKDIwtgSa

— Scott Manley (@DJSnM) September 29, 2022

It was assumed dead by almost everyone the moment they announced their business model. The market expected a Netflix of games, they launched a platform to buy games you don't own.
In the end, nobody bought games, expecting it would die soon, resulting in self fulfilled prophecy. https://t.co/PTZx7DzqNz

— Juan Linietsky (@reduzio) September 29, 2022

Apparently the Stadia team was only told about the upcoming shutdown of the service 45 minutes prior to the public. Really shitty move, Google https://t.co/rto4E4YyKQ

— Andreas Proschofsky (@suka_hiroaki) September 29, 2022

Stadia must go down as the biggest money loser in Google history.

Free hardware for everyone, refunds to consumers for games while still having to pay the developers, who knows how many make-nice deals for developers that ended up making a game for a dead platform.

Yikes.

— Ron Amadeo (@RonAmadeo) September 29, 2022

ある意味予想通り。GoogleがストリーミングゲームサービスのStadiaを2023年1月に終了すると発表。しかし、Googleって、長期目線での戦略継続はやらず、伸びなかったら速攻でサービスやめてしまいますよね。VR関連しかり。
Google kills Stadia https://t.co/vKys0flTey @VentureBeatより

— 新清士『メタバースビジネス覇権戦争』発売中 (@kiyoshi_shin) September 29, 2022

Google kills Stadia https://t.co/v5VS5R8d42

— GamesBeat (@GamesBeat) September 29, 2022

So long Stadia. Big tech companies that move into games with long-term plans don't always stay. They stayed longer than I expected, but I did expect this. I hope those out of work can find jobs. https://t.co/q8aYUA18Rz via @GamesBeat

— Dean Takahashi (@deantak) September 29, 2022

. @Google has announced it is winding down its Stadia video game streaming service and will shut it down on January 18. 2023.

Read the full @IGN article here: https://t.co/U0VRbCzEsl#GamingNews pic.twitter.com/CNsfY9b3mN

— KontrolFreek (@KontrolFreek) September 29, 2022

I covered Stadia from the start, and let me tell ya, Stadia summarizes everything wrong with Google. https://t.co/JuhJLlgtH6

— Matthew S. Smith (@Matt_on_tech) September 29, 2022

Yeah. Surprise. Never, ever rely on a Google service. EVER.https://t.co/qHrGUFuq7I

— Matt Grandis 👽 (@MattGrandis) September 29, 2022

It's sad to see it go. I haven't used it in a long time, but I did think it was one of the best versions of cloud gaming out there. Cloud gaming is an awesome "additional" way to play, but expecting people to buy full price cloud games was always silly. https://t.co/e2TkvxAtDh

— Mark Medina (@Mark_Medina) September 29, 2022

This was the obvious decision after three months, never mind three yearshttps://t.co/hD5lkpBQvF

— Vlad Savov (@vladsavov) September 29, 2022

Google $GOOGL ゲームサブスクのStadiaが終了へ。開始からたった3年。

ユーザーにStadiaの返金を行うそう。Stadiaには大金を投資してきたとのこと。

他のサブスクと比べて立ち位置が微妙だったかも🐽 Google+やGoogle Glassも失敗に終わったが、手の広げすぎ？https://t.co/BMv3ZxXOxD

— ブタ丸🐷米国株投資 (@Butamaru_Butako) September 29, 2022