The Google Stadia Controller was pretty much the only piece of consumer hardware that came from the company’s cloud gaming project, but it would have been useless without the platform to go with it. As such, Google opened up a conversion tool that allowed the Stadia Controller to work as a regular Bluetooth controller, and now, it’s leaving that tool open for longer.
Available since January of this year, Google has offered a web-based tool that allows users to convert their Stadia Controller to Bluetooth mode. This enables the controller to be paired to smartphones, computers, and even consoles, but it’s a permanent change and had a time limit.
Google originally set the tool with an end date of December 31, 2023, just a couple of weeks from now.
But Google has since, silently, extended that deadline. As spotted by Wario64, Google’s tool now says that users can convert their Stadia Controller to Bluetooth through December 31, 2024, a full one-year extension. The change seems to have been made within the past few days, as it still showed December 31, 2023, as recently as last week.
Google has, so far, offered no public explanation for why the deadline has been extended, but it’s great to see nonetheless. The Stadia Controller works fairly well over Bluetooth, and leaving this tool with a deadline always felt a little pointless.
- Here’s how the Stadia Controller works with Bluetooth
- How to pair your Stadia controller to anything via Bluetooth
You can convert your Stadia Controller to Bluetooth at stadia.google.com/controller.
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- Google toyed with the idea of buying out Epic Games back before Stadia launched
- Microsoft has been working on cloud streaming for PC games, as inspired by Stadia
- Stadia’s death was due to a ‘self-sustaining cycle’ of lacking games and players, lead says
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