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MagentaGaming: Telekom’s cloud gaming service to be discontinued

With MagentaGaming, Deutsche Telekom launched its own cloud gaming service in August 2020 to compete with Google Stadia, GeForce Now and others. After around one and a half years, it is now over. MagentaGaming will be discontinued as of February 2022.

MagentaGaming will be discontinued

The market among cloud gaming providers is a tough one, and Telekom has now had to find that out as well. After the pompous market launch in the summer of 2020, it quickly became quiet around MagentaGaming, Telekom’s own game streaming service. Even the added support for the MagentaTV Stick and Android TV could not avert the disaster.

MagentaGaming will be discontinued from the end of February 2022, with Telekom citing lack of demand as the reason. Affected customers will soon be informed via email about the next steps, according to the statement.

Currently, no new orders and subscriptions for the game streaming service will be accepted, the shutdown will then take place from February 26, 2022.

Possible reasons for the end of MagentaGaming

It is difficult to say why MagentaGaming ultimately failed. After a beta test in 2019, the service floated along on the tide of cloud gaming providers entering the market. But the hoped-for boom in these gaming services failed to materialize – Google Stadia and other competitors also failed to make an impact as hoped. Game streaming was considered the future of gaming years ago, but it is still struggling and has never taken off as providers had hoped.

MagentaGaming currently offers a catalog of around 120 games that are included in the subscription price of 7 euros per month. The problem: These are predominantly older or smaller titles and not the blockbusters that gamers are hoping for.

Although there were one or two highlights with the sci-fi thriller Control from Remedy or Ghostrunner from 505 Games, the selection of gaming highlights was simply too limited in the entire catalog.

Simon Lüthje

I am co-founder of this blog and am very interested in everything that has to do with technology, but I also like to play games. I was born in Hamburg, but now I live in Bad Segeberg.

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With MagentaGaming, Deutsche Telekom launched its own cloud gaming service in August 2020 to compete with Google Stadia, GeForce Now and others. After around one and a half years, it is now over. MagentaGaming will be discontinued as of February 2022. MagentaGaming will be discontinued The market among cloud gaming providers is a tough one, … (Weiterlesen...)

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