Google’s closure of Stadia game studios may be affected by Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda

Microsoft recently spent a lot of money to acquire the parent company of the well-known game developer Bethesda Game Studio and directly annexed ZeniMax Media’s entire company.

The transaction price is 7.5 billion US dollars, but it is a drizzle for Microsoft, and constant buying and buying will help Microsoft build a more powerful game development department. Some time ago we mentioned that Microsoft wanted to acquire game developer Nintendo many years ago.

It is estimated that what Microsoft did not expect is that the operation of buying and buying by itself will also affect Google. Google recently announced that it will completely close its Stadia game studios.

Google recently announced the closure of its own game studio, and before the closure, Google executives also sent a full email to express that the results of the game studio were excellent.

As a result, Google announced the closure of the studio a few days after the email was sent, and the executive actually knew the decision to close before sending the full email.

So Google’s operation is actually very confusing, and even more confusing is that Google executives also admitted in the latest news that the closing of the studio is related to the acquisition of Microsoft.

This may make more users wonder. What does Microsoft’s acquisition of other game developers have to do with Google? You two are competitors and have no other cooperation.

In fact, Google’s closure of Stadia game studios is really related to Microsoft’s acquisition of other game developers. Simply put, Google sees Microsoft’s continuous buying and buying and is hit hard.

Google originally established the Stadia game studio to create top-level games, but after a long period of development, Google believes that the studio has not achieved its goal.

Google believes that it is too wasteful to continue to invest a lot of money and other resources into the studio. In that case, it is better to shut down the game studio completely.

Via: onmsft