Google’s first retail retailer opened up in New York Metropolis final yr with in-person purchases, repairs, recommendation, and product demos. The Google Store additionally had a Stadia room, however that has been removed from the Chelsea location.
The Google Store in Chelsea, New York Metropolis has removed its Stadia experience room in the previous week or two, 9to5Google has confirmed. Upon visiting the shop in particular person this week, the Stadia room has been removed fully, and changed with a brand new experience across the Pixel Buds Professional. The Stadia experience was nonetheless in place as of at the very least late June.
Because it stands at present, the Google Store in Chelsea affords three experience rooms; one for Nest merchandise corresponding to Nest Audio and Hub, a room to check out Pixel smartphone cameras, and now a room to experience the Pixel Buds Professional – that Pixel Buds room changed the earlier Stadia house (extra on that quickly).
The Stadia room in the Google Store supplied anybody the possibility to check out Stadia video games in the shop, utilizing Stadia Controllers with Pixel telephones, the Pixelbook Go, and the Chromecast Extremely on TVs. The room was constructed with neat audio “domes” that created a private listening house with out the necessity for headphones, in addition to furnishings to sit down down and benefit from the video games. With the elimination of the room, the Google Store in NYC affords no Stadia demos in any respect.
The Stadia house launched with the shop in 2021, and is the primary room that Google has removed from the shop up to now. Presumably, Google will shuffle these three rooms in the Chelsea location as new merchandise are launched over time.
Notably, the Google Store in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) has no such experience rooms, however each places promote the Stadia Controller alongside Google’s different {hardware} merchandise together with Pixel telephones, earbuds, and Nest merchandise.
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