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Andy Chalk

It's the final end of an era: Former Stadia boss Phil Harrison has left Google

Phil Harrison at GDC 2019

It was over, but now it's really over: A Business Insider report says Phil Harrison, the former PlayStation and Xbox executive who joined Google in 2018 to head up its Stadia gaming platform, has left the company.

Harrison's departure is hardly surprising. Despite big promises—overpromising, in the opinion of Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick—and Google's financial muscle, Stadia never found its footing, much less delivered on its early promise. The first real sign of trouble appeared in February 2021 when Google closed its internal game development studio, leading to the departure of its high profile leader Jade Raymond. Other executives and employees followed shortly after.

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