As you already know, Google Stadia is shutting down in a few days. The announcement was made in the past months, including a piece of information about the service’s ending news and the company’s future cloud gaming plans. Since the announcement arrived, the subscribers have been worried about the games they bought for Stadia and the controller they paid for. Fortunately, the Google Stadia team announced they’re planning to convert the controllers to Bluetooth gadgets. Normally, the controllers were only available to use with Stadia. But as the service shut down, the controllers were going to be useless. The details aren’t certain yet, but Google Stadia’s next update will convert your controller into a Bluetooth controller that you can use for everything.
Google Plans To Unlock The Stadia Controllers
Stadia’s Twitter account didn’t share the full details, but they will release a “self-service tool” to unlock the controllers. This is nice because the Bluetooth connectivity will allow you to use the controller on your computer, phone, TV, and many other Bluetooth devices. The team sidesteps to share further details, but they will release the tool and share other details next week. Here’s the tweet relayed the good news:
We’ve also got Bluetooth news: next week we’ll be releasing a self-serve tool to enable Bluetooth connections on your Stadia Controller.
We’ll share details here on release. pic.twitter.com/6vYomngfmA
— Stadia ☁️🎮 (@GoogleStadia) January 13, 2023
Many people asked if the controller’s Bluetooth feature could be open-source, but Stadia replied that they don’t have plans for this: “Hey there, thanks for reaching out. We don’t have any details to share about the Google Stadia Controllers Bluetooth capability being open source. Still, we’ll be releasing more information about the self-serve tool to enable Bluetooth connections next week. Stay tuned!”
An open-source structure would also be great. The closed-source software is only capable of featuring things that the developers choose. If Google decides to make it open-source, the Stadia controllers could have great features with community support. Nevertheless, Bluetooth support is good news.
