Google Stadia closed its servers slightly below three months in the past, and it looks like former Google vice chairman and head of Stadia, Phil Harrison left the corporate on the identical time. Harrison’s departure has not been formally introduced by Google or Harrison himself.
Phil Harrison’s future plans after he left Google
There isn’t any inkling as to what Harrison’s future plans could also be. He was additionally beforehand the pinnacle of SCE Worldwide Studios, company vice chairman at Xbox, and a member of the board for Atari, however he has held loads of positions exterior of the gaming trade too. It’s unknown whether or not he’ll stay within the gaming trade now. Harrison’s departure has not been formally introduced however sources informed Enterprise Insider that he left Google with little fanfare in January, the identical month the Stadia service closed down.
Stadia’s cloud streaming was meant to grow to be the way forward for gaming by providing gamers the chance to play video games with out buying the {hardware} often wanted to run them. Beforehand seen as a risk to their share of the market, Microsoft and Sony joined forces to boost their cloud gaming choices and tackle Google Stadia, but it surely looks like they needn’t have bothered. Stadia by no means actually took off and the servers closed completely on January 18, 2023.