Read from kotaku and ZDNet :
Jack Buser is leaving Google Stadia on September 13. He was the streaming service’s Director of Games, having worked on Stadia for about five years. Buser, who before all this spent a decade at PlayStation working on PS Home and PS Plus, helped Google Stadia develop partnerships with game devs and publishers. As ZDNet points out, his move to Google’s Cloud division signals a shift in the search company’s gaming strategy. Instead of focusing on exclusives and original games for Stadia, the platform and Google’s cloud services will be leveraged as a tool and distribution option for other, third-party game companies.
Google explained to ZDNet that this was good for Stadia, spinning this departure as a way to bring “new partnership and product opportunities” to both Stadia and Google’s overall cloud services. But it’s hard to see another high-level exec jumping ship from Google Stadia as a good thing, especially after numerous other execs and workers have left the company in the past year, including high profile folks like game designer Jade Raymond and Stadia’s former Head of Product, John Justice.
Jack Buser is leaving Google Stadia on September 13. He was the streaming service’s Director of Games, having worked on Stadia for about five years. Buser, who before all this spent a decade at PlayStation working on PS Home and PS Plus, helped Google Stadia develop partnerships with game devs and publishers. As ZDNet points out, his move to Google’s Cloud division signals a shift in the search company’s gaming strategy. Instead of focusing on exclusives and original games for Stadia, the platform and Google’s cloud services will be leveraged as a tool and distribution option for other, third-party game companies.
Google explained to ZDNet that this was good for Stadia, spinning this departure as a way to bring “new partnership and product opportunities” to both Stadia and Google’s overall cloud services. But it’s hard to see another high-level exec jumping ship from Google Stadia as a good thing, especially after numerous other execs and workers have left the company in the past year, including high profile folks like game designer Jade Raymond and Stadia’s former Head of Product, John Justice.
