{"id":124,"date":"2020-03-02T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T12:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T12:08:51","slug":"stadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/stadia\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.sg\/why-are-so-few-games-on-google-stadia-2020-2\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.sg\/why-are-so-few-games-on-google-stadia-2020-2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This concern \u2014 that Google might just give up on Stadia at some  point and kill the service&#8230; was repeatedly brought up, unprompted, by  every person we spoke with for this piece.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Notably the only real\n media distribution platform Google has successfully sustained is \nYouTube, which A) wasn&#8217;t started by Google and B) was initially \nsustained by amateur videos before being monopolized by professional \ncontent creators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> A is something they cant change and B is something you cant really\n recreate with videogames, unless they literally cloned itch.io which \nthey won&#8217;t because 1) itch.io already exists and 2) they&#8217;re so \nchronically shortsighted they&#8217;ll shut it down anyway when it doesn&#8217;t \nmake money within 2 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n Google, in its behemoth state, seems to have lost any understanding of \nhow to build network effects (if they had any understanding to begin \nwith) and thinks they can just buy a userbase with their huge wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.businessinsider.sg\/why-are-so-few-games-on-google-stadia-2020-2 &#8220;This concern \u2014 that Google might just give up on Stadia at some point and kill the service&#8230; was repeatedly brought up, unprompted, by every person we spoke with for this piece.&#8221; Notably the only real media distribution platform Google has successfully sustained is YouTube, which A) wasn&#8217;t started by Google and B) was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parallelsuns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}