Last Thursday, something long suspected was confirmed, the closure of Google Stadia, a service that came with very good intentions and with an interesting design, but which, for many reasons, never got off the ground, and as time went on began to threaten to be shot down, without any movement being seen on the part of the seeker to support it, much less attempt to fight in the front line.

It can be said that it all started with a bad communication policy, so much so that it took less than a year before we came to the conclusion that it was necessary to explain what exactly the service consisted of. And that’s it on one side was the game store and on the other was the subscription service. It’s not really a particularly complex approach, but the lack of clear communication about it has taken its toll.

Then we find the catalog. OF the promise of thousands of titles from so many developers, we move to a forecast of 120 titles in 2020, an offer that would be bolstered by the company’s own studies. Studios that ultimately failed to bring a single title to the platform and that closed at the beginning of 2021. A year for which Stadia once again promised a catalog growth that never materialized.

Along with the lack of communication Another big problem with Google Stadia is found in its catalog, which never turned out to be what both Google and those of us who expected the service expected. And in this regard, we learned today that Google Stadia can play a sensational trick, but Phil Harrison, the head of the platform, decided to rule it out. Or at least that’s what 9to5Google tells us and claims a Stadia executive ruled out Hideo Kojima’s new project as exclusive to the platform after the release of Death Stranding.

The reason for abandoning the project, always according to the source cited by 9to5Google, is this Kojima wanted to create a title one playera type of game that, according to Harrison, does not have the necessary market volume. And it’s true that multiplayer is in a golden age, but the last few years have seen the release of many single-player titles that demonstrate that this premise is fundamentally wrong as to be absurd.

Now, of course, we are left with a question what would happen to Google Stadia if it had an exclusive signed by Hideo Kojima, but I can hardly imagine that it would not significantly change the success of the platform. Something added to Phil Harrison’s syllabus requires him to ask about the percentage value of a manager’s responsibility when closing a service. The good news, yes, is that Kojima’s project has not been ruled out. On the contrary, it is the one we told you about a few months ago, which is already being developed with Xbox Games Studios.