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DanFromGoogle
Community Manager
Community Manager

A Gift from the Stadia Team & Bluetooth Controller Functionality Info

Hey there Stadians.
 
You might have seen one last game arrive on Stadia today. It's a humble :red_heart: thanks :red_heart: for playing from our team.
 
 
In addition, many of you have expressed the desire to enable Bluetooth on the Stadia controller. We have some good news: next week we'll be releasing a self-serve tool to enable Bluetooth connections on your Stadia Controller. We'll share details next week on how to enable this feature.
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Ivan
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Such bittersweet moment. We've known the end of Stadia for a while now, but now that it's getting closer, getting all sorts of mixed feeling here.

So cool to have an 'easter egg' even just for a few days, and the bluetooth unlock for Stadia controller is definitely much appreciated.

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Windmill
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

What a gift indeed. Thanks, Stadia Team!

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Pheasy
Founder
Founder

Outstanding news on the controller! And one last hurrah! 

 

Thanks and good bye I guess

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CorruptedPhazon
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you so much for enabling Bluetooth connectivity!

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daveyp
Founder
Founder

This is really good of you, lots of people asking for this, cheers! 

Shame to see Stadia to go but it's been fun whilst it lasted and at least we got refunds. I feel bad for the guys that worked on it and put a lot of time and energy to it. There was so much potential there and it had reached the point it was a pretty polished service. 

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Ari
Founder
Founder

This is great to hear!

Thank you, Stadia Team, for your service. :cowboy_hat_face:

Stadia: Ari
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FangerZero
Founder
Founder

Thank you Stadia team for all your hard work over the years. Sorry you got blind sided like the rest of us! We love you all. And we love hearing that we'll be able to use our controllers as a bluetooth! I am super thrilled about that, since I really did like the controller but didn't want to use wires, since I have a cat who thinks wires are fun to chew on.

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Anoobis
Founder
Founder

Dan the man! Thank you Stadia team.

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Phatinum
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

That's super awesome! At least the controller will live on... although I am going to keep it in immaculate condition as a collectible for display now :slightly_smiling_face:

 

So, it won't be a firmware update through the Stadia app?

 

Also, how can I get hold of a Black Stadia controller? It looks so good! Still love my white one but yeah, the black one just looks so nice :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:

phatinumgaming
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NyteRazor
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

One last hurrah.  Cool! :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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keefxkhan
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you so much Stadia team! Your hard work on this project meant so much to so many of us. You tried to create the future of gaming, but the world wasn't ready just yet. But in time, all your efforts will pay off and we will see cloud gaming become the main way to play, and Google will be leading the crowd!

Thanks to the Stadia community for a wonderful 2 years!

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macoud12
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Great to hear that you're letting us enable Bluetooth on the Stadia Controller. What will be the button combo to start Bluetooth pairing?

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Rynelan
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

My guess since the Stadia connection won't work anymore.. simply the Stadia button. Powering on will turn on controller and first time automatically in pair mode. To pair again hold the Stadia button while powering on.

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A day we never thought would happen, Stadia closure, and then a rather large or small update, allowing us to continue to use the very hardware we so enjoyed.

Thank you for all you have done!  This is a huge gift and means tons of plastic controllers will no longer go to waste in landfills. 

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ray3473
Founder
Founder

Thank you Stadia Team! 

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Wraith4616
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

It's a sad moment not only to all STADIANS but also to gaming industry. With every major gaming companies dwelving deeper & investing more than ever on cloud gaming, it's a shame to see the best & most versatile cloud platform to quit, even when powered by one of the world's tech giants.

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Dukeman
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Thank you for playing Stadia. I love them so much with my mobile in travel anywhere! 

 

Thank you Stadia teams! 

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Yay!! Sad to see stadia shutting down and in getting every second I can out of it before it shuts down . But thanks for the controller it's way more comfy than my Xbox series x controller 

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Hostile
Founder
Founder

As far as I'm concerned, Stadia was first to the cloud and I hope to see it return in some form or fashion with more innovation but maybe this time a bit more humility and leveraging all the marketing mediums Google already has available to itself. I highly recommend a bit less pie-in-the-sky feature thinking and more focus on how to sell the product to end user. Stadia was highly portable and flexible. I will miss it DEARLY. None of the others are even remotely close in that capacity, but the marketing never really mentioned it. Epic fail. It was all flashy 30 second gimmick clips or droning techy videos that didn't really explain what Stadia ultimately offered players... FREEDOM TO PLAY ANYWHERE on almost ANYTHING!!!

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SirLANcelot
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

thank you for everything and this one last farewell...
mixed feelings for sure, even though I haven't used Stadia for a very long time, its still been such an important part of my gaming time...
This one last post truly shows how much more you guys deserve...

Thanks for everything!

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JHamilton
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

RIP.  Never had a chance.

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MrMarcusGKnight
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

#TeamStadia Legends! 

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jfernandez
Community Member

Hi Dan,

I'm one of the authors of a controller plugin for the Steam Deck: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/this-new-steam-deck-external-controller-plugin-is-quite-useful...

We'd love to battery info support for the Stadia controller. Will the Stadia team also publish the the communication protocol specs? 

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Thanks for the memories Stadia! 🧡

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MJ-Elite
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Great parting gift. Thanks to the whole team for supporting us over the length of Stadia's far to short lifespan. Maybe if Google had started Stadia as a real beta and adopted a different approach a la GeforceNow where the user purchases games and pays a monthly fee... Cheers from Germany

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JohnnyRobot
Founder
Founder

This is truly bittersweet news. I wish it wasn't so. But thank you for all you did!

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zura
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

thank you 

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manthoR
Founder
Founder

I'm so sad.

Congratulations to THE team.

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Gunni
Founder
Founder

Thanks Stadia team. For everything, not just this, it was a blast!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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