Announced in March 2019, Google Stadia promised a lot when it was officially launched, but to this day it has not delivered everything we saw at the event. Launched in select countries, only in recent weeks has the search feature in the game library been released, as well as the possibility of filtering by genre.

Now available on Google Chrome, Android, Smart TVs and other platformsThe fact is that the Mountain View giant always offered a catch in these experiences: on Android, for example, it requires a native app. On Android TV, it only started to offer 4K HDR gaming in August of last year. Despite having a series of exclusive games, it seems that the platform needs to reinvent itself, or at least have new leadership, since the current chief executive of Google Stadia has left the company.

John Justice is no longer the search giant's chief executive and vice president of gaming product. The news comes shortly after the company close the activities of six studios in-house employees who developed original titles for the service, in a restructuring that began to focus on partnerships with major developers in the market.

Google has a history of killing products suddenly

This accumulation of not-so-positive news about Google Stadia may send chills down the spine of those who already use the gaming platform. It wouldn't be unheard of if the company killed the service in the medium term, although there has been no statement from the company to that effect. Wave, Google Plus, Inbox, goo.gl, Picasa, Orkut, Play Music, Spaces, and Talk are just a few examples of discontinuations in the last ten years.

In the case of Stadia, the situation would be particularly delicate, since consumers buy subscriptions, or games. In the case of monthly payments, the provision of services has a defined period of time. Now, those who purchase games individually would certainly be upset if the platform was no longer in the company's plans in the coming years.

Through which channels you reach those people, classic and out of the box. 9to5Google