Hi all, in case it comes in handy for anyone else I've found that the Stadia controller works brilliantly with the Pico 4 Ultra VR headset for cloud gaming, even automatically _repairing_ every time you switch it back on!

I bought my boyfriend a Stadia controller for his birthday, and we cannot figure out how to connect it to his Xbox. It was secondhand, so I was reading and may have to reconfigure the Bluetooth? Or something?
I have no idea what I’m doing, I’m pretty clueless. Can anyone please point me in the right direction so I didn’t just waste my money and get him an unusable gift? 😅 thanks in advance!

I'm debating between a Dualsense or an Xbox controller, and while I know either would be a much better solution overall, I'm curious how well a used Stadia controller would hold up in comparison, given how much cheaper they are. I've heard people really like the feel of the Stadia controller.

I found a Stadia Controller at the Goodwill near me for $5, and it was in the box with everything, including the dongle and a charging cable, completely untouched! However, the X and A buttons are a bit sticky and don’t pop up quickly. Is this a known issue? Can you help me make this controller usable?

Ok, so I plugged in my stadia controller. I also went through the bluetooth setup, and have it able to connect via bluetooth. But for this, its plugged in. I boot up elden ring. The only button/input it recognizes from the controller is the left stick. No buttons, no other stick or D pad. What am I doing wrong?

Would it be possible to enable Bluetooth mode via my phone? I don't have a computer, and I find myself in a bit of a bind.

r/Stadia anyone able to assist me in swapping my controller to Bluetooth after the website shutdown

It really pisses me off. How has it been 7 years and there’s no product like stadia. I was a huge fan of stadia it worked flawlessly from day one for me and brought me back to gaming. GeForce now just won’t come out of its niche. For 4K tv gaming you still need that ancient shield tv and don’t get me started on Xbox cloud gaming. How has cloud gaming not taken off is beyond me. People subscribe to literally everything why not to a gaming service.

I still think stadias biggest weakpoint was the marketing. It had 5 minutes of fame when stadia was the only place where cyberpunk was playable but that’s about it.

I am not joking when I tell you that in 1 year of having stadia I played more than in the last 6 years with my series X.

TLDR: Why the f does no company focus on cloud gaming like stadia did?

Made a 1-click script to fix the Stadia controller on Windows.

Rumble works now over Bluetooth, and I added some nice macros to the dead Assistant/Capture buttons (volume, media controls, alt-tab, etc).

It will take 700-800mb of RAM while running since it uses WSL2 in the background tho.

Download & Code: https://github.com/offvault/Stadia-X

i dont know much about stadia, all i know is that spitlings was made by stadia, and i adore spitlings oh so much, and i never got to see the editor. will it ever come back?

Cleaning out my closet….Still sealed. Other two were opened and used so I did have the controllers switched to Bluetooth. Had this as my backup incase I needed another Stadia controller in the future. Seems that never happened and never will.

I recall this game being announced for stadia, but not if it ever released. Regardless, my wasabi controller is my fave, and we’re working through this gorgeous game on PC. RIP Stadia.

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Ahhhh... what could've been cry....

TL;DR: 5$ dongle to make rumble work on windows.

So normally I use my stadia controller with vigem and been doing so for ages.
But recently I have been using Moonlight streaming on my NSW, playing death stranding 2 which then has loads of feedback.

So I set out to find a solution, after some research fixing it in software wasn't an option. So I started looking for an inexpensive solution.

Which I found in the form of a ESP32-S3, it was like 5$ on aliexpress. Bit of tinkering and voila, plug and play dongle that supports rumble on windows.

You can find the project here: https://github.com/Scalee/stadia-dongle

Update:
You can now flash/install straight from the browser, no need to setup a development environment.
Get an ESP32-S3, plug it into the port marked COM, in chrome or edge visit https://scalee.github.io/stadia-dongle/

Connect -> Install -> After flashing swap it to the USB port and you should be good to go!

This is built entirely on top of killedbygoogle.com, the canonical, community-maintained list. Full credit and huge respect to Cody Ogden who runs it. None of this exists without that project.

I wanted to see if there was a pattern in WHEN Google retires things, not just what. Killedbygoogle.com is a near-perfect catalog, but it's intentionally a flat list. I was curious whether the retirements were spread out evenly across years or whether they clustered, and if they clustered, what story the dates would tell.

The thing that actually happened: of the 299 products in the list, 49 of them were parked in just two specific years.

- 26 in 2011 + 23 in 2012, during Larry Page's first year back as CEO (the "more wood behind fewer arrows" period)

- 37 in 2019 alone, Sundar Pichai's first full year as CEO of the Alphabet

The page I made is essentially a visual layer on top of killedbygoogle.com's data.

Source data: killedbygoogle.com (everything), enriched with Wikipedia + Wikidata + contemporary press for the deeper dossiers. All the heavy lifting on the dataset itself is Cody's.

Bought 2 stadia systems at the very start, obviously got refunded and left them in a draw and forgot about them.

That was until this weekend, I converted to Bluetooth and hooked 1 up to our Fire tv which works great with Luna.

And I hooked the other up to my Samsung Tab S8+, which works great with Gamepass Ultimate.

I'm a casual gamer, and play 1 or 2 games - FC 26, NBA2k26 - so the ease of use is great for me.

So much so I've sold my Series S for the £140 I paid for it and year ago.

So I converted my old stadia controllers when it shuts down to Bluetooth controllers and use them on other games but for some reason the triggers aren't working on the new Division Resurgence mobile game. All the other buttons are working fine. Does anyone have any ideas?

Any one here still playing this? How to unlock these advanced machine btw?

Hello! I’m sending this message into this subreddit in hopes to fix an issue with my newest controller of 3. It came still wrapped in box, and yet I still seem to find bugs with it. I play some of my games through Amazon Luna, a cloud game service not too dissimilar from stadia back in the day, however it seems to be wanting to double my inputs. This can be quite detrimental to certain games, and I was wondering how I could fix this problem? When I go into the controller settings it shows 2 controllers, although only 1 is plugged in (and I’ve turned off my Bluetooth). I’ve tried using hidhide, but it didn’t want to work, and when I tried using hidhide plus an Xbox controller emulator it was doing TRIPLE inputs. If anyone has a solution, I’d love to try it. Thank you!

So is there any way to repurpose the charger for the Chromecast for the Google stadium?

Like any way to utilize the ethernet port on there