{"id":828074,"date":"2025-02-19T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/should-google-stay-in-the-cloud-gaming-business\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:12:08","slug":"should-google-stay-in-the-cloud-gaming-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/should-google-stay-in-the-cloud-gaming-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Google Stay in the Cloud Gaming Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"details-section\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n        <span>February 18, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Google formally announced the innovative video game service Stadia at the 2019 Game Developer Conference. The company invested substantial resources and time into building a network able to support the demanding requirements of cloud gaming. But the early uptake by premium video gamers was disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership team faced a decision. Should they double down on the streaming strategy, refocusing Stadia on the casual gamer segment? Or should they pull the plug altogether?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer <strong>Derek van Bever<\/strong> and coauthor <strong>Akshat Agrawal<\/strong> explore Google\u2019s strategic choice, which is featured in their case \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/store.hbr.org\/product\/google-stadia-game-on-or-game-over\/325024?sku=325024-PDF-ENG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Stadia: Game On or Game Over?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/podcast\/2025\/02\/should-google-stay-in-the-cloud-gaming-business\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lyndia Drews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 18, 2025 Google formally announced the innovative video game service Stadia at the 2019 Game Developer Conference. The company invested substantial resources and time into building a network able to support the demanding requirements of cloud gaming. But the early uptake by premium video gamers was disappointing. The leadership team faced a decision. Should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[496,1140],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-828074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"category-should"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}