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Google Stadia shuts down its first-party game studios

Google Stadia shuts down its first-party game studios

Google Stadia is shutting down its first-party game studios and will not be producing first-party exclusive games for the platform anymore.

Google made an announcement yesterday stating that they are shutting down both the Los Angeles and Montreal game studios. These two studios were functioning under Google Stadia to create first party exclusive games for the cloud gaming platform.

Future of first-party games:

Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially.”, said Phil Harrison, VP & GM, Google Stadia in the announcement. “We’ve decided that we will not be investing further in bringing exclusive content from our internal development team SG&E, beyond any near-term planned games.

Over 150 employees working on the project will now be moved into “new roles” at Google. It was also made public that Jade Raymond, the former Ubisoft and EA producer who was heading the Stadia Studio teams will soon be leaving the Stadia project & Google entirely.

Focus on third-party games

We’ll continue to bring new titles from third parties to the platform. We’re committed to the future of cloud gaming, and will continue to do our part to drive this industry forward.”, Harrison says in the announcement.

What this means is Google is no longer interested in making first-party games as they realized that it involves a lot of expenses, time and other resources. Instead, the company will keep supporting third-party games and focus on bringing even more third-party titles to the platform.

While the cloud gaming future looks near yet very far, we might just have to wait and see if Google can bring something unique to it’s cloud gaming platform. Perhaps a few big third-party exclusives. Something to keep it relevant till cloud gaming reaches the remote corners of the world.

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