{"id":763051,"date":"2020-06-01T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=763051"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:17:42","slug":"googles-overpromising-led-to-stadia-disappointment-says-rdr2-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=763051","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s \u201coverpromising\u201d led to Stadia \u201cdisappointment,\u201d says RDR2 publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Stadia-10-of-10-980x653-1.jpe\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n          Embossed text, &#8217;cause it&#8217;s fancy.                      [credit:<br \/>\n                        Kyle Orland                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A year ago, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/gta-publisher-believes-in-streaming-services-like-stadia\/\">said<\/a> he was &#8220;pretty optimistic&#8221; about Google&#8217;s Stadia game-streaming service. The concept of &#8220;being able to play our games on any device whatsoever around the world, and to do it with low latency, well that\u2019s very compelling if that can be delivered,&#8221; he offered in May of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, Zelnick has changed his tune a bit. In <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.take2games.com\/events\/event-details\/take-two-interactive-software-inc-bernstein-annual-strategic-decisions\">an interview given during the Bernstein Annual Strategic Decisions Conference<\/a> late last week, Zelnick acknowledges <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2020\/04\/one-million-people-have-tried-google-stadia-mobile-app-estimates-suggest\/\">what has been apparent<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2020\/01\/google-stadias-latest-free-game-only-has-a-few-thousand-total-players\/\">industry watchers<\/a> for a while: &#8220;The launch of Stadia has been slow,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think there was some overpromising on what the technology could deliver and some consumer disappointment as a result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While major publishers like EA and Activision stayed away from <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2019\/11\/google-stadia-might-be-gamings-future-but-in-the-present-it-looks-rough\/\">Stadia&#8217;s &#8220;Founders&#8221; launch last November<\/a>, Take-Two provided three of the service&#8217;s highest-profile games in its early months\u2014<em>Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em>, <em>NBA 2K20<\/em>, and <em>Borderlands 3<\/em>. And Zelnick said such Stadia support will continue in the future &#8220;as long as the business model makes sense.&#8221; (Take-Two&#8217;s <em>PGA Tour 2K21<\/em>, <em>WWE2K Battlegrounds<\/em>, and the <em>Mafia<\/em> series are currently planned for future Stadia release.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1680288#p3\">Read 9 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1680288&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=GXPFByrOBa4:u6z5Bcjfays:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=GXPFByrOBa4:u6z5Bcjfays:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=GXPFByrOBa4:u6z5Bcjfays:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=GXPFByrOBa4:u6z5Bcjfays:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1680288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google\u2019s \u201coverpromising\u201d led to Stadia \u201cdisappointment,\u201d says RDR2 publisher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embossed text, &#8217;cause it&#8217;s fancy. [credit: Kyle Orland ] A year ago, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said he was &#8220;pretty optimistic&#8221; about Google&#8217;s Stadia game-streaming service. 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