Google Stadia, the cloud gaming service, is shutting down. The service launched in 2019 but wasn’t widely used. It’ll shut down in January 2023, with refunds going out for all hardware and software purchased by its users.

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The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023. Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as all the games and add-on content purchased from the Stadia store. Stadia has been facing rumors of its demise practically from the start.

Google is shutting down Stadia

<p>well I did not even shock. this is normal for google.</p>


<p>News to me, good thing I only purchased 1 game and they are going to refund it. It was pretty terrible with latency when I tried, Xbox has a much better service.</p>
