{"id":35696,"date":"2021-02-26T15:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=358c0e172308ae413b7fc76231f310ad"},"modified":"2021-02-26T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:51:51","slug":"report-stadia-undershot-to-the-tune-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=35696","title":{"rendered":"Report: Stadia undershot to the tune of \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: Well, that's pretty much exactly what everyone expected.\r\n \r\nThe \"Premire Bundle\" or whatever I got free with my ...YouTube subscription that I had as a side-effect of my Play Music subscription which is also now a dead product... was neat hardware, and the technical accomplishment of making the whole convoluted thing work is impressive... but I used it for maybe 4 hours the week I got it and haven't touched it since. It's not compelling on it's own, and it's _especially_ not compelling knowing Google's erratic tendencies with their consumer facing products.<\/div>
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In the wake of Google shutting down its Stadia Games & Entertainment (SG&E) group<\/a>, leaks about the underwhelming game-streaming service have started to emerge<\/a>. A Friday Bloomberg report<\/a>, citing unnamed Stadia sources, attaches a new number to the failures: \"hundreds of thousands\" fewer controllers sold and \"monthly active users\" (MAU) logging in than Google had anticipated.<\/p>\n

The controller sales figure is central to the story told Friday by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier: that internally, Google was of two minds about how Stadia should launch. One idea looked back at some of the company's biggest successes, particularly Gmail, which launched softly in a public, momentum-building beta while watching how it was received over time. The other, championed by Stadia lead Phil Harrison, was to treat Stadia like a console, complete with some form of hardware that could be hyped and pre-sold. In Stadia's case, the latter won out, with Harrison bullishly selling a Stadia Founder's Bundle—and this worked out to be a $129.99 gate to the service<\/a>. Without it, you couldn't access Stadia for its first few months.<\/p>\n

As Schreier reports, Harrison and the Stadia leadership team \"had come from the world of traditional console development and wanted to follow the route they knew.\"<\/p><\/div>

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