Google launched its Stadia gaming service in 2019 with the expectation it would gatecrash an industry long dominated by Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. But it failed to find much of an audience and is shutting down less than four years later.
Reports suggest an internal target of one million monthly active users wasn't reached, with 2020 numbers peaking at around 750,000., beginning a countdown clock which ends at 8am UK time on Thursday.:"The writing had been on the wall for a while."No More Robots was still working on a game for the platform when its closure was announced, but releases by then were few and far between.
Its closure has been marked with a final release, Worm Game, which Google used internally to test features.Stadia's games library offered some big hitters, but never got close to its rivals Its Pro subscription tier, which was required to stream games in the best possible quality, offered a relatively paltry selection of titles, far removed from the vast libraries that have kept people hooked elsewhere.
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