While Google proceeds with its direction for Stadia, the firms’ approach to the video game industry, the cloud-streaming platform continues to unveil more unappealing truths that were dealt internally at the tech giant. At the beginning of February, Google announced the division’s internal game studio – Stadia Games and Entertainment – will be relinquished as Stadia pursue outsourcing its tools to publisher and developers.

Abrupt as the news came, the discovery emerged to be just as surprising to the roughly 150+ developers who were employed under the Stadia label. A separate report from Kotaku issues that sources familiar within Stadia’s operations learned of the layoffs around the same time of the announcement. Stadia Vice President Phil Harrison days earlier praised the progress of Stadia Games and Entertainment before closing its doors via email to its developers.

To source the decision, on source tells that the finalizing for Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda’s Zenimax Media is to blame for it as Google aimed to purchase the firm later in 2021 originally. To elaborate more on the ambitions at Stadia, Google already pour “tens of millions of dollars” into helping ease publishers welcome is titles to Stadia.

Already, we witnessed the response of the capital invested with games like Red Dead Redemption II & Cyberpunk 2077 on the platform. The reports namely mentions Take-Two Interactive and Ubisoft for Google’s party of choice for more game to the platform. Even more, Google’s efforts proven to be in favor as a result at the time.

Previously, Ubisoft featured an exclusive timed demo for Immortals: Fenyx Rising on Stadia. If that is not enough, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick also commented on the “transformative” direction Stadia is heading in which he said to show striking results in a few years. You can read the full report by heading here.

Are you surprised the amount of money issued for Stadia to bring praise to its platform?

Source: Bloomberg