Stadia will shut down all its servers in just two days. On January 18, Google will say goodbye to its most serious attempt to get its head into the world of video games to date because of a strategy that, practically from the beginning, was clear that it would lead nowhere. Of course, despite being at the end of the road, those who trusted this cloud platform are going to be pleasantly surprised. Do you know which?
Refunds and final gift
You have to give Google credit that he has known how to say goodbye with class. Few companies close a business and do so by paying for every purchase in their store, be it a game, a gamepad or a Chromecast Ultra. Although now we are going to stop at the control command of the entire system, which many thought that once its useful life in Stadia was over, it would remain forever as a beautiful paperweight.
If you have never tried this system, you have to know that the Stadia controller works thanks to the Wi-Fi connection Since before starting to play, the platform looks for the ID of your peripheral and when it finds it, it links it to the game session that you have started. There is no trace of Bluetooth in this process, which is the standard that companies like Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc. usually use. to wirelessly pair your controllers to consoles (or PC).
Well, that Wi-Fi connection made it unfeasible that once Stadia was closed users could enjoy those gamepads with other systems since it was impossible to pair them to do anything with them. Now those fears have turned into welcome news for everyone who owns one of these gamepads.
Google will publish a fix this week
It was Google itself that announced it on its official Twitter account, which Will it allow the Stadia Controller to work with Bluetooth? through a tool that will be published this week, when the service says goodbye to everyone. They have not specified how it will be but it means that both in the case of PlayStation and Xbox or Nintendo and PC, it will be possible to give a second life to the control of the game platform in streaming.
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We’ve also got Bluetooth news: next week we’ll be releasing a self-serve tool to enable Bluetooth connections on your Stadia Controller.
We’ll share details here on release. https://t.co/6vYomngfmA
January 13, 2023 • 21:41
In the message, Google states that “we have news about Bluetooth: next week [por esta] we will release a tool to enable Bluetooth connections from your Stadia Controller. We will share details here about the launch.” So we will be attentive to, first, prove that this new type of connectivity actually works and, second, that it will not have limitations of use with existing hardware. That is, with PS5, Xbox Series X | S, Switch, Steam Deck and any other device with this type of wireless technology in its hardware.
It is evident that Stadia says goodbye sadly after just two years of operation (at least in Spain) but, without a doubt, it does so by leaving the players fully happy: because their purchases have been refunded and because we can reuse the hardware. Can you ask for more?
