let's go over the stadia's failure
I'm sure act-man's going to do a really
thorough dive on it this is just such a
Victory lap for me I still remember the
second this got announced and like their
first trailer I was outspoken about how
silly it is I like I didn't believe it
was a good idea and I was firm in my
stance that I didn't think it would
succeed and I had so many [ __ ]
doubters and especially in chat that
were like no Charlie this is actually
the future you're just too you know
reptile brain to see the potential of
the stadia this is how Gaming's gonna be
from now on I can't wait to get my
Stadium I've already pre-ordered and I
called you a [ __ ] idiot and now look
at it it's already dead
it was a complete waste like an absolute
Crash and Burn project another Google
stinker right into the trash bin just
like Google Plus and the million other
products Google has tried to Launch
now maybe there's still some Merit to
the idea itself but the stadia was never
going to be the one to execute it well
it never stood a chance
after just three short years Google has
announced that they are pulling the plug
on stadia all future support for cloud
gaming why like watching a kid stick a
fork in the electrical outlet
we all saw this coming true console or a
theme it represents thousands of people
who are working on this business
thousands of people
no longer working on this business and
that's just if they ever were to begin
with I don't really think this is like a
good argument for the sake of it
sticking around either to be honest this
doesn't really
address the question super well it's
just like hey we put a lot of money into
it we have a big team of course it's
going to succeed down the line
like the answer I would look for is how
are you going to ensure that it stays in
the market like in his competitive
not like well we already poured so much
money into it so of course it's going to
stick around you know what I mean it's
just it's such a non-answer
but it's backed by Google so they've got
a pretty good Channel I say it all the
time first impressions are so important
in gaming oh such a bad little patience
for such a bad first impression don't
work this is how does anyone remember
the old stadia commercials they used to
run during I think it was E3 2019
they've made like a big push and I think
I really think it was E3 they were like
floating around through like space and
time or something after going through a
kid's room oh my God it was so
embarrassing Jesus Christ
I have no regrets the first impression
didn't stick the landing and I was never
given a reason after this to ever pick
up a stadia or try it do you remember uh
[ __ ] I think it was a year after launch
they still only had
was it sub 10 games on their service
I wonder if I can still find the old
articles I think it was like a full year
and they only had like five or six games
on the entirety of stadia and they were
all full price let me get the exact
number
let me pull up an old article Google
stadia only has one exclusive game which
is tequila Works guilt
which was a system launch
there's no word yet on what exclusives
could be
and then they speculate that typhoon
Studios might have one which I don't
think they ever did
but yeah as of January 16th there was
one exclusive on the game
as of February 19th of this year they
have 200 games
286 games as of February of this year
the service launched with 22 games and
added four more in December of 2019 by
the end of 2020 the service had 130 okay
thank you
Google stadia is not a video game
console it's a controller software not
hardware and I only just the controller
the cloud gaming after it was canceled
that's how poorly the marketing got the
message across that's how Mountain
nobody talked about it I mean this was
supposed to be a massive new competitor
to Sony Microsoft Nintendo and it was so
close God damn it Battlenet and I don't
even know what was on the cusp of
greatness
if you actually go I'm sure he's gonna
show it but I'll I'll tell you right now
I'll rip the Band-Aid off I also thought
this stadium was a console for like the
first two years it wasn't until we were
doing an episode of the podcast where we
were joking about it that we learned the
Google stadium was never a console it's
a controller and it's a controller that
like gives you access to the stadia
cloud Fair gaming so you never even got
like a console you got a controller it's
basically yeah like you said it's
basically a software
and I think you could access the
software without the controller I I
don't think that was necessary but if
you purchase like a stadia I suppose you
get a controller these are all games
that are think they're running through
these very quickly right now damn that's
that's a sick controller with their
platform with stadium looks like the oh
yeah like I legitimately think they're
gonna be x y and around the back here uh
it's just a pretty standard controller I
wouldn't say it's a sick controller but
it's a functional one like this is just
the tried and true vanilla controller
the design
nothing crazy about it not Reinventing
the wheel but it's fine it seems in the
Absurd gaming platform on Earth yes
supported 4K resolution 60fps with HDR
they had a premium Subscription Service
kind of like Xbox's Games with Gold
where you'd get free monthly games and
once you've got them you what's crazy is
this 50 games instantly is their whole
catalog
they launched with 22 games
so they're already promised well I don't
know when this was but they're promising
more games than their service currently
had
and they finished with 286 titles which
is actually less than the Nintendo 64
had
I think among all consoles it is the
lowest amount of games total at least of
consoles I can think of even the Sega
Genesis I think had more and that was a
console that was Dead on Arrival because
they surprise announced it at E3 and
said go buy it right now it's in stores
let's see
that's considered one of the biggest
console flops of all time and Sega
Genesis had or uh was it the Sega Saturn
I don't know I'll check both but Sega
Genesis had 800 and let's see the Sega
Saturn
this Sega Saturn head
1046. so it was definitely the Genesis I
was thinking of
and I was wrong Sega Genesis still had
more titles than Nintendo 64. Nintendo
64 had 385
380 something I think
how many did the Ouya have before it
died let's see
at least
oh [ __ ] me
before the uyas untimely demise it had
1250 games
as of June 2019
Jesus
yeah I guess it just ported all the
mobile games so it's kind of cheating
let's see how many exclusives Ouya had
because the stadia finished with uh I
think the article said 10.
so how many exclusives did Ouya have
oh [ __ ] it beat the Ouya oh wait no no
that's 2014. um
damn that's like the most current
article on it too as of 2014 the Ouya
had six exclusives
stadia had 10. [ __ ] Nintendo is doing
with switch on no no no we didn't I mean
no one played oh yeah mind you we uh was
completely a joke a huge meme I had an
Ouya and I used it as an ice tray at one
point like it was a complete worthless
piece of [ __ ]
what is the Ouya it was what do you mean
what is the U yeah
how the [ __ ] is there anyone out there
that doesn't remember the Ouya
this was the most popular Kickstarter
for a long long long long time
they hyped this up as like console 4
Gamers by Gamers it's gonna have every
game you've ever wanted on it it's also
going to be coming at the highest
possible graphical Revolution or
resolution
it's also just going to be one of the
best gaming experiences you'll ever have
in your life
just like filled with a bunch of
buzzwords and everything
this is probably just clickbait but it
was just filled with tons and tons and
tons of buzzwords but it just ended up
being mobile game ports and shovelware
yeah like I said I had an oh yeah I used
it as an ice tray
I tried it but it had no use so I just I
used it as an ice tray
like what the [ __ ] else was I supposed
to do with it foam product I can say hey
go follow me on Instagram that doesn't
cost me anything it just seemed like
Google started this thing noticed that
it wasn't gaining traction immediately
and then like was is Destiny 2 on
Stadium not until just now when they
finally yanked that last little bit out
Google also they could only trade
Destiny 2 months down some of the game
development they were doing what a
disaster their idea was to shift to more
some Destiny players had a stadia just
to play ranked because it was a much
easier because it was against much
easier players oh that's so smart
that is so [ __ ] smart
oh you're just playing in stadia gamers
[ __ ] me
especially if it doesn't offer any
obvious benefits like bro apparently
hideo Kojima was working on a new death
stranding exclusively for stadia whoa
canceled that
like how they must have watched my voice
meter it's hideo Kojima Google had
created you're out of here on a positive
note though Google will be refunding
anyone who actually huge yeah and that's
the most pro-consumer thing they can do
out of this obviously they're not gonna
like refund you know this service that
you paid for it's it's a service right
we literally signed the publishing
agreement with stadia last week so I
would assume the internal teams there
who are lovely are likely finding this
out at the same time we are since I had
a super energetic meeting with them last
week about us joining
eek oh
big stinker rooski on that one
peace
nice recipe stadia oops just another big
guy told you so moment there gamers
I told you that [ __ ] was destined for
failure
I knew it
but it's I mean it's not just me pretty
much everyone said that that was
probably trash there was just some
people that really bought into it
it really wasn't just me that was like
the coldest take of all time
it was awful from the get-go
thanks 30 sub West and JB I just always
hold these like one guy grudges or like
one guy's like super passionate about
something but I know he's wrong
this is like oh I can't wait I just
can't wait until it's like definitively
proven
like this
just like Anthem by the way I will I
will always wave that around I said with
Jackson during the anthem beta this game
is absolute abhorrent trash and it's
terrible and we got eaten alive on the
anthem subreddit to like these [ __ ]
[ __ ] don't understand that it's a
beta they don't get it all of this is
gonna be fixed when the game releases
next month all of their complaints are
going to be looked back on so stupidly
to think that they wouldn't be addressed
by launch and you know what happened
none of them got fixed because the beta
was out a month before the [ __ ] game
was they had no time to fix it delusion
and then they never even apologized to
us on the subreddit they just silently
agreed with us and then made post
whining about how bad the game was
Anthem trailers and pre-release Media
made it seem like it was the next best
game new Destiny and then and then it
flopped harder than any other game yeah
it had a lot of potential
it really did
but the beta became very clear that it
was a pile of trash steaming dog [ __ ]