Hot Wheels Unleashed, one of Milestone's recent tiles, finally made it onto the ill-fated Google Stadia cloud gaming platform. Just hours later, Stadia announced it would shut down at the start of next year.
Mattel and Milestone probably didn't anticipate this. Stadia, Google's cloud gaming platform, will cease operations on January 18th, 2023, less than 4 years after its inception.
But not only the Italian Milestone will be affected by this closure. Racing games like MotoGP, Wreckfest or Monster Energy Supercross will not be available to stream through Google's Service.
Now while the reasons for this development may be manifold, other services just gained the edge through plain better offers.
With competitors like NVidia GeForce Now or the Xbox Games Pass, the combination of those services might just be ahead of its time.
However you may think the future of gaming will develop, streaming will likely become an ever larger part of the whole. With less and less actual ownership of the software being accepted by end-users and internet connections becoming increasingly better, the future of this scene seems all but stuck going in this direction.
Stadia, as pretty much the first service to offer widespread cloud gaming, missed its mark, though, and will be forgotten as a footnote in gaming history.
Have you used Google Stadia? Are you surprised about its shutdown? Let us know in the comments down below!
Mattel and Milestone probably didn't anticipate this. Stadia, Google's cloud gaming platform, will cease operations on January 18th, 2023, less than 4 years after its inception.
But not only the Italian Milestone will be affected by this closure. Racing games like MotoGP, Wreckfest or Monster Energy Supercross will not be available to stream through Google's Service.
Now while the reasons for this development may be manifold, other services just gained the edge through plain better offers.
With competitors like NVidia GeForce Now or the Xbox Games Pass, the combination of those services might just be ahead of its time.
However you may think the future of gaming will develop, streaming will likely become an ever larger part of the whole. With less and less actual ownership of the software being accepted by end-users and internet connections becoming increasingly better, the future of this scene seems all but stuck going in this direction.
Stadia, as pretty much the first service to offer widespread cloud gaming, missed its mark, though, and will be forgotten as a footnote in gaming history.
Have you used Google Stadia? Are you surprised about its shutdown? Let us know in the comments down below!
