Google Stadia is officially dead, and you can now buy official exhibits from the showcase where the platform was paired with infamous flops like the Dreamcast and the Nintendo Power Glove.
For some reason, back at the Game Developers Conference in 2019, Google decided to put up a small exhibit that presented NA game for Atari, Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Power Glove. The exhibit was supposed to be a harbinger of Stadia, Google's cloud platform, but the through line of these three gaming industry icons is that they were all conspicuous underdogs. And now you can become the owner of these very items, and your money will go to the Video Game History Foundation!
As the Kotaku, VGHF founder Frank Cifaldi recently wrote about these three items as they were loaned by the Google organization. “Remember when Google Stadia had a GDC display where they put it next to three of the most famous flops in gaming history?” wrote Cifaldi.
“Now you can recreate this display at home! I provided the originals for display and now I’m selling them for charity,” he added, followed by a link to the website eBay listing from three items.
"Up for auction are original items used for Google Stadia's famous 'Anything You Dream Can Be Built' showcase at the 2019 Game Developers Conference!" - says the eBay description.
“As a result of a series of mistakes, misunderstandings, misunderstandings and other incidents, the grand opening of Google's now doomed gaming service took place alongside... three of the most famous commercial failures in video game history. Now these failures can become YOUR failures!”
At the time of writing, the auction price is $2025, and there are about four days left in the auction, so if you're itching to get your hands on any of these classic pieces of video game history, place your bids soon. Also no, it doesn't come with Stadia.
Earlier this week, Google announced that Stadia would be shutting down in January 2023, to everyone's surprise, but the unfortunate surprise of many developers who weren't told of the planned shutdown before everyone else knew. It's also a potential sign that cloud gaming, in this particular format, just doesn't work and we should probably forget about it.
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