{"id":51889,"date":"2021-02-01T13:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=51889"},"modified":"2021-02-01T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T21:26:43","slug":"google-and-amazon-have-discovered-that-making-games-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/01\/google-and-amazon-have-discovered-that-making-games-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Google and Amazon have discovered that making games is hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google has shut down its internal Stadia game studios. According to Stadia VP, Phil Harrison, the company will shift all resources <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/stadia\/focusing-on-stadias-future-as-a-platform-and-winding-down-sge\/\">away from developing games<\/a> and concentrate on providing a streaming platform where others can publish their games. Harrison cited the expense and time needed to create first-party games as a barrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The business shake-up also means Jade Raymond, originally hired on to oversee Stadia&#8217;s game studios, is leaving to &#8220;pursue other opportunities&#8221; outside of Google. Raymond came from Ubisoft&#8217;s Assassin&#8217;s Creed franchise and EA&#8217;s Motive Studios and had originally been hired in 2019 to head Stadia Games and Entertainment, but Google&#8217;s studio produced no games during its short run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, Amazon&#8217;s foray into creating games doesn&#8217;t seem to be going much better. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2021-01-29\/amazon-game-studios-struggles-to-find-a-hit?sref=uE15RiYa\">Bloomberg<\/a> dove into the recent failures at Amazon Game Studios and came away with some insights of the bungled effort. $500 million <em>a year<\/em> has given Amazon a catastrophic misfire in Crucible, a copycat free-to-play hero shooter game that almost immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazongames.com\/en-us\/support\/crucible\/contact-us?selectedCategory=1lZfHhoVLe2jfntVZCry9F&amp;selectedIssue=6blglxLuLMYpkZAzCjBdX9\">shut down<\/a> after launching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;One of the things that we hear most often from people who try\u00a0<em>Crucible<\/em>\u00a0is that it feels unique.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its MMO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newworld.com\/en-us\">New World<\/a>, changed from a survival and crafting focus with a colonizers-versus-natives theme to something a lot less racially charged, but its issues continued. After feedback from playtesting last year, the launch was pushed from August 2020 to Spring 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Game development is hard. When a company like Google cites Cyberpunk 2077 as the highwater mark of its platform, you know you&#8217;ve hit trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has shut down its internal Stadia game studios. According to Stadia VP, Phil Harrison, the company will shift all resources away from developing games and concentrate on providing a streaming platform where others can publish their games. Harrison cited the expense and time needed to create first-party games as a barrier. &#8220;Creating best-in-class games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":51890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google and Amazon have discovered that making games is hard - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/01\/google-and-amazon-have-discovered-that-making-games-is-hard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google and Amazon have discovered that making games is hard - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google has shut down its internal Stadia game studios. 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