Google Stadia will shut down on January 18, 2023, a streaming service once thought to be a threat to Sony. However, the platform will go ahead and take a full-blown leap into its running. Google is reprimanding all the hardware purchases made through the Google Store. As a refresher, Jim Ryan announced a partnership between Sony and Microsoft in 2019 to develop future cloud solutions. The partnership sounds like a lifetime ago given the ongoing battle between both companies over the Activision acquisition.
Sony and Microsoft were temporary allies against Google.
Four years ago, the play field for cloud gaming and streaming services was still uncertain and fluid, though Jim Ryan believed they would be major features for the next console. At that time, PlayStation Now played for more than five years, and Xbox Game Pass broke up in June.
The deal signed with Microsoft was an attempt to fight a growing number of companies like Google, which invest in the cloud gaming space. Adversity makes strange bedfellows and everything else. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Ryan explained the reason for the partnership because Sony was extremely risky of having events around us overtake us, and that company needed to keep an open mind about a desire to do that, even though we had to.
Sony even tried to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft. This Memorandum explored how companies can collaborate, with Sony attempting to use Microsoft Azure to create a virtual reality package.
While Google Stadia is soon going out of the way, Sony and Microsoft can again focus on fighting one another’s rival subscriptions, and the reality is that the deal has been a long legal battle over Microsoft-Activision.
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