March 13 (Portaltic/EP) –
Google ha completely ceased the cloud service Google Stadiawhich still retained part of the infrastructure of this streaming platform to Google Cloud and other companies interested in this technology.
the tech giant closed its video game service in the cloud Stadia the past January 18 after not achieving the number of users and the development expected, as announced by the company in September 2022.
In this sense, although its service is no longer available to users, part of its infrastructure continued to be available to Google Cloud and enterprises from third parties who were interested in Stadia technology.
For example, the American telecommunications company AT&T reached a commercial agreement with Stadia to use this infrastructure and power offer to your customers with certain packages streaming version of the video game Batman: Arkham Knightjust like has advanced the Axios journalist Stephen Totilo.
In this framework, as reported by Totilo through a Twitter post, Google Stadia also has finished with this type of infrastructure servicesdefinitively ceasing the last activities that continued to be maintained on the video game platform.
Google’s Jack Buser told me: “We are not offering that streaming option, because it was tied to Stadia itself. So, unfortunately, when we decided not to move forward with Stadia, that sort of [business-to-business] offering could no longer be offered as well.”
— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) March 8, 2023
Also, according to statements by the Director of Games Industry at Google Cloud, Jack Buser, Picked up by Stephen Totilo, Stadia has stopped offering this option because “it was tied to Stadia itself.” “When we decided not to go ahead with Stadia that kind of offer [de empresa a empresa] could no longer offer itself either”, Buser explained.