Google has made its masterful entry into the video game market with Google Stadia, a service that will allow gamers to stream video games to any screen: phone, tablet, TV or computer.
Stadia has been announced at the San Francisco Game Developers Conference (GDC). The cloud service will allow users to log in from any screen using the Chrome browser, a Chromecast device, or a Google Pixel phone or tablet and play the same games on all of them.
Without console
There will be no game console: the computing load will be carried out by Google’s servers. This means that gamers will not have to buy a device and place it under the TV in order to play, theoretically freeing video games from hardware.
Google hasn’t said how much it will cost yet, but the service is likely to be subscription-based. Its launch is initially planned for the end of 2019 in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and “most of Europe”.
Stadia will also be fully integrated with YouTube , where game content is among the most popular on the video platform, viewed by hundreds of millions of people every day. Google showed a button that will allow users to instantly watch video game videos on YouTube to play themselves. Stadia will also allow you to easily capture and share game clips.
Google will also launch a command. Google’s gamepad has a fairly conventional design; This connects directly to the WiFi network and Google servers to play, not to our device, so, they assure, the experience will have minimal latency. It doesn’t matter much if a TV show or movie is broadcast with a slight delay, but video games demand instant response when a button is pressed and even a small delay can make gaming unpleasant. Google’s immense server infrastructure will mitigate this problem, according to the company, allowing seamless gaming at the standard that gamers expect from a console, in 4k resolution and at 60 frames per second.
The team
Google has many veterans of the video game industry on board to launch Stadia. Phil Harrison, a former Sony PlayStation member, is the vice president and general manager of Google, and the vice president of games, Jade Raymond, is a former producer at Ubisoft, where he directed the Assassin’s Creed series for years. Despite this, Google has created its own video game development studio that will offer exclusive games, as well as titles from other publishers.
Reference: Google / Game Developers Conference
