first, two different products. GCP != Stadia. Second, it's a lofty goal they've set... ambitious even, to become #1 cloud player. (AWS is #1, Azure is #2, GCP is #3.) Strictly a market play for their ...
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first, two different products. GCP != Stadia. Second, it's a lofty goal they've set... ambitious even, to become #1 cloud player. (AWS is #1, Azure is #2, GCP is #3.) Strictly a market play for their cloud provider side of the business. They've already made a decade long commitment to Stadia, and with them producing their own first party games through their own stadia game studios, there is an implied 4-8 year commitment simply in development time. TLDR; This article is an out of context conversation that is really around a goal set to move their marketshare higher. They had a real decision to make, either go further into cloud (and target enterprise customers) or get out of it. That's the discussion point you are seeing from those articles that's stretched and taken out of context. The went left, pushing further into the enterprise space with investment into hybrid tech such as Anthos. anyway, rant complete.