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Google was willing to spend five years building AAA games for Stadia — if it hadn’t cost so damn much.
According to former Google Stadia product lead Dov Zimring, the company did have an appetite for AAA games — the surprise shutdown of the company’s internal games studios was because a five-year game development cycle had become pricier than projected.
“It was going to be far more expensive in the environment that we found ourselves in,” says Zimring, referencing game industry consolidation as an underlying reason.
Zimring also confirmed reports that Google paid developers to port their games to Stadia, but the FTC’s lawyer let him get away without publicly confirming how much.
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