Stages: Google will close its studios and redirect its efforts to the News platform

News business Stages: Google will close its studios and redirect its efforts to the platform

Founded in 2019, Stadia is still struggling to establish itself as a cloud gaming platform, but it seems to be gradually establishing itself. In parallel to this service, Google had opened two development studios under the direction of Jade Raymond. Today we learn that the studios will be closing and that Google will redirect its efforts to the Stadia platform.

in the a recently published press release

the company will announce that in the coming months Efforts are focused on developing Stadia as a platform. Google will work closely with publishers and developers to keep Stadia growing. To support these efforts, Google has decided to stop investing in Stadia Games & Entertainment studios beyond games in development and released in the near future.

Building great games from scratch takes many years, involves significant investments, and costs grow exponentially. Given our willingness to build on proven Stadia technology and deepen our business partnerships, we have decided not to invest in exclusive content from our internal SG&E development team beyond the games that are planned at short notice.

So, The two studios in Los Angeles and Montreal will be closed as soon as their work is done

The 150 developers currently present should receive suggestions for reclassification or assistance in changing companies. For his part, Jade Raymond, who worked on Assassin’s Creed at Ubisoft before joining EA and then Stadia, has decided to leave the company.

(…) We will continue to invest in Stadia and the underlying platform in order to offer our partners and our community the best possible cloud gaming experience. This has been Stadia’s vision from the start. In 2021 we will intensify our efforts to help developers and publishers use our platform technology (…). We see an important opportunity to work with partners to find a gaming solution based on Stadia’s technical infrastructure and advanced platform tools. We believe this is the best way to make Stadia a long-term sustainable company that will help the industry grow.

For subscribers So there shouldn’t be any big changes, except that they will not discover any games developed by Stadia that go beyond those already planned. Google confirms this in This indicates that new third-party games will continue to be available in the Classic Catalog as well as in Stadia Pro.