Google Stadia would have paid Ubisoft $ 20 million for ports

After the spread of many reliable fakes that would have confirmed the cancellation by Google of many projects for the gaming sector, including a horror title developed by Hideo Kojima e Yu Suzuki, the American giant is back in the spotlight thanks to a recent Bloomberg report, which claims that in order to have some titles on Google Stadia the company would have paid even tens of millions of dollars. According to the reporter Jason Schreier, in fact, the multinational of Mountain View would have allocated the astronomical figure of 20 million dollars a Ubisoft only to be able to have the games of the series within your service Assassin's Creed e The Division.

Although he was quite nebulous in his article, without going into details about which software houses or which games had been taken into consideration, in some posts on his official Twitter profile, Schreier stressed that the huge figure mentioned above would be ended up in the coffers of the French publisher, which in this way would have allowed them to publish some of their franchises also on the Google Cloud Console. Furthermore, according to the Bloomberg journalist, the American company would have carried out the same procedure also with TakeTwo Interactive, to also include in your catalog Red Dead Redemption 2 e NBA 2k20.

However, these investments apparently did not bear the hoped-for results, as last February the Google Stadia Games and Entertainment studios were officially closed, which were supposed to create quality titles available exclusively on this console. According to Schreier, these operations have largely influenced the alleged failure of this project, as the same sum could have been invested in the production of several smaller projects, with the hope that at least one spopolis as recently made titles such as Fall Guys, Among Us, Stardew Valley o Valheim.

Pay $ 20 million to Ubisoft to port Assassin's Creed and The Division

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Pay $ 1 million to 20 small developers to each build something cool, betting that at least one of them will be a hit like Stardew Valley or Valheim

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- Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) February 26, 2021