Google Stadia closed 2022 with less than 5% of total subscribers to cloud services

9 Feb. (Portaltic/EP) –

He Google Stadia cloud gaming service accounted for between zero and five percent of all subscribers to cloud gaming services in 2022, according to figures shared by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

It was last Wednesday, January 18, when, after months of rumors, Google decided to end support for its video game service in the cloud, which was no longer available for not getting number of users and the development that the company expected.

Until then, this ‘cloud’ service competed with the one offered by Microsoft, Xbox Game Pass, Sony PlayStation Plus either Nvidia GeForce Nowowned by the manufacturer of graphics cards Nvidia.

A recent report produced by the CMA, belonging to the investigation that is being carried out on Microsoft and Activision Blizzard within the framework of the acquisition agreement of the video game developer by the manufacturer of Xbox, has revealed that the total number of subscribers to this cloud service was much less to the one registered by the rest of the platforms.

Specifically, its share of subscribers is between 0 and 5 percent of the total number of online players, the same value registered by the service offered by Amazon, Amazon Luna, in the year 2022.

In the first place and as the most used platform is Xbox Cloud Gamingwhich got between 60 and 70 percent of the total of users. they follow him Nvidia GeForce Now, with a percentage that It hovers between 10 and 20 percent.as well as PlayStation Plus, with an identical value.

Compared to the data recorded in 2021, this British body shows that there was a general drop in the number of subscribers to these platforms, with the exception of the service offered by Xbox, which grew from 20-30 percent to the aforementioned in just one year.

PlayStation Plus (which until last summer divided its payment services into two modalities, PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now) went from 30-40 percent of total subscribers to cloud services in 2021 to 10-20 percent in 2022.

Something similar happened to Nvidia GeForce Now, which went from a value between 20 and 30 percent of total subscribers to cloud services to 20-20 percent.

From the CMA they point out that “many see the lack of content on the Stadia platform, based on Linux, as a major contributor to its failure” and they insist that “this shows that porting games to an alternative operating system – that is, forcing developers to create new compatible versions – is not a feasible option for Windows.”