Google Stadia
2019 - 2023, 4 years old
Google's cloud gaming platform, marketed around machine-learning features for streaming and game development.
Stadia launched in November 2019 with promises of negative latency, ML-driven style transfer for in-game art, and a Stadia-exclusive games studio. The studio was closed in February 2021 before shipping anything original, and the service never reached the user numbers Google needed to justify the data-center cost. Phil Harrison's team kept adding titles into 2022, but on September 29 of that year Google announced the platform would be turned off and that all hardware and software purchases would be refunded. The Stadia servers went offline on January 18, 2023; the underlying streaming tech survived inside YouTube and Google's immersive efforts but the consumer product was gone.
- Founded
- 2019-03
- Shut down
- 2023-01-18
- Funding raised
- Undisclosed
- Years alive
- 4
- Founders