Is Stadia still active?
Google Stadia is shutting down. Just three years after it launched, Google’s big bet on cloud gaming will stop operating on January 18, 2023. Its rapid demise isn’t a complete shock. Thank you for playing with us. Stadia was shut down on January 18, 2023. Find up-to-date information in our Help Center.
What year did Stadia shut down?
Google Stadia was first announced during the Game Developers Conference in March 2019. The company’s mission was to make gaming accessible to everyone around the world! It officially launched in November 2019, and at that time, it had 22 games available for players. Yes — latency, availability, and game libraries mattered. But the deeper, quieter reason Stadia died was organizational misfit: Stadia needed a publishing, operations, and partner-first culture that didn’t align with Google’s core product incentives and time horizons.