Google kills Stadia while Apple Arcade thrives
Games streaming landscape shifting
GOOGLE IS SHUTTING Stadia, its cloud gaming service, saying “it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected.”
Google will also 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 can continue to access their games library and play until January 18, 2023.
When Stadia was launched in 2019, Google called it “the
