Watch Google Stadia in Action in Impressive Demo Videos; Launch Coming in 2019

During the presentation of the Google Stadia streaming platform at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the tech giant presented several demos showing off the potential of the service.

[mcstorm]

Hmm I will need to see it again but the last stream on the TV looked like it was lagging but may of been me. This is very interesting though as I think it will set both Microsoft and Sony to force there hand with PsNow and Xstream.

[x_xavier_x]

I was part of the Google game streaming test program a few months ago which featured Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I was skeptical but came away super impressed with the technology. No lag, no frame drops, 1080p at 30fps on a low end PC with a mediocre internet connection.

[SCW1982]

How was the input latency?

[Twinblade]

of course you will be impressed, just wait until millions and millions of gamers trying to play the same games and starts lagging the servers.

[x_xavier_x]

@SCW1982

I don't have any hard numbers on the latency but I would say undetectable.

[jeromeface]

I have a high end pc with a 100 megabit connection and the latency was horrible. YRMV

[naruga]

i will never support any non-physical gaming platform ...for me is a NO even before i see what it plays......also ive said it multiple times and i will say it once more ----we need to see what support they will get from Japan ....Because No Japan (games) =No party =DOA

[Lennoxb63]

Not having Japanese is not going to be the death of any platform/console. That's a reach. I'm sure it may have some but you seem to forget that some of the biggest, most popular games aren't Japanese.

[demonicale]

So you're an old person who wants to stay in the stone age. People like you are the problem with society!

[Abriael]

The one moment in which performance seemed pretty bad to me is indeed when it got on the TV, and the scene with the eagle seems to have a lower frame rate on cursory observation.

But to be fair it might be just the fact that the footage was filmed with a camera and streamed at 30 FPS. Hard to say.

[porkChop]

Hmm. Could be. It's hard to record TVs, the frames get out of sync and it looks weird.

[ssmilloy36]

input lag looks high. seconds not ms

[Tech5]

duplicate post.

[DillyDilly]

They already have pretty good options with Remote Play. But that is still dependent on having actual Systems turned on. If they can take that next step where we wont need a System but just an account & all of our Digital games. Theres something there

[Einhander1971]

Sony and Nintendo have nothing to worry about. The games they produce are second to none. Microsoft will be shitting a brick after seeing this lol.

[princejb134]

google will have to rely on third party developers same as MS at the beginning of this gen. How did that turn out for them?

[Atom666]

All 3 will be fine, but there is plenty for them all to keep an eye on.

A controller and a dongle is suddenly capable of those high end 3rd party games not available on a $300 Switch.

PS Now doesn't have brand new releases, nor is it available at these resolutions/frame rates, or on all devices.

Xcloud is completely untested and appears to utilize Xb1s's., which aren't capable of 1080p/60fps natively, let alone through stream. Forza and Halo won't be enough to attract the streaming market (if that's a thing).

So while I doubt any of them are shitting bricks (Google's work isn't exactly a secret here), they would all do well to not ignore Google imo.

[King_Noctis]

Unless Google have a dozen of first party studios like MS, I don’t think MS have anythingto worry about. Plus, let not pretend like MS is abandoning physical hardware anytime soon.

[StrengthInNumbers]

I'm all for it. It excites me. .

[Tech5]

the results are pretty good, running up to 60fps. XBL and PSNow Could offer the same.
personally though, I prefer owning my games and hardware.

[The_Sage]

I was completely blowing this off... Now... I see they're serious.

[The_Sage]

I guess there are people that disagree that they are serious... I'll stick with PlayStation myself, but it is obvious that Google is serious about carving themselves a spot in the gaming market. Will they take Microsoft's spot?..

[ApocalypseShadow]

It's impressive for a cash grab technology. They definitely were watching Ready Player One in coming up with something similar without the vr part.

But, Developers will most likely be expected to pay to have their games hosted on Google's servers.

Cash.

Advertisers will most likely have to pay to market products to you on YouTube through these lol. .."creators."

Cash.

And gamers are what? Expected to pay $60 or so or whatever for games they don't own and don't download? Or are gamers paying monthly to play everything but own nothing?

Cash.

Yeah. No. Even digital downloads have a hint of ownership. This is basically paying for nothing. An impressive nothing.

[TheHateTheyGive]

Thats been xboxones whole strategy this gen, xboxone lives and thrives off the 3rd parties hard work. I hope google succeeds and makes some exclusives. The gamepass that xboxone has is going to chase off 3rd parties because again microsoft profits off their work, so much that they lierally give away gamepass for free or a buck for 3 months.

[EmperorDalek]

And PSNow doesn't have third party games? Sony doesn't make money off third party game sales? What a bunch of nonsense. They have a stronger first party line up, but they make money of third party developers just like Microsoft.

Developers choose to put their games on game pass, they get paid for it. They usually choose to put them there because they think it make more money for them than if they don't. Game pass is a good option, in that case. It's just common sense. And again, Sony does the same with PSNow.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Emperor, this will be different. All these developers aren't going to be paid by Google to put their games there. If Google is hosting the content on their servers, developers will be paying Google for the privilege of being on there for as long as they can keep paying.

Google basically wants to be in the middle collecting checks from all angles. The Hate is right. Even with 1st party, Microsoft wants to do the same thing as Google. Others do the work, they sit back and collect.

And what's going to happen is the same glut we see on Steam and Android. Tons of games that you have to sift through to find a good one. Or supposedly, we're supposed to play the top games based on YouTube personalities top picks. Which is even more ridiculous.

[CDbiggen]

Google is just a soulless money making machine. They want everything and can afford to get anything.

[Segata]

Yeah so impressive when the Doom video was glitching and artifacts.

[Fishy Fingers]

As someone who doesnt give a s*** about the name on the box, this is pretty impressive stuff and certainly the future (like it or not) and has the means to open up gaming to the less fortunate who cant afford a PC/console, good stuff.

Sooner or later the idea of needing anything more than a screen will seem old fashioned.

[tontontam0]

Lol here in my country we less fortunates can't afford a high speed connection to play on stadia.
Even if we can afford one intermittent connection is expected.

[Whitey2k]

Now if Sony joint with Google and used Google as services for psnow and PC since ps4 can support mouse n keyboard that would be epic imagine total war in ps5 through google

[ECHOINFINITY]

This is impressive. I'm a PlayStation guy, but aside from a lack of exclusives this tech is really pushing streaming forward in an impressive way from the looks of it so far.

[Einhander1971]

Does anyone remember PlayStation home. Phil Harrison was all over that shit. Epic fail, again he’s being paid crap loads to big up Stadia.

[Traecy]

I'm more interested to see what they have for their exclusive library. If they show some interesting games I may be interested seeing all you have to do is buy a controller & hoping Sadia has an affordable monthly subscription which can be cheap instead of buying their hardware & games including I have high speed internet service & no data cap. This can be my next go to option when I'm not playing my Pro.

[DillyDilly]

So can we only use Stadia controllers or any of the ones we own ?

[Segata]

Whatever the case it will be dead in less than 2 years. It's Google. They will abandon it.

[Deathdeliverer]

It’s interesting and I can see some potential if it goes without a hitch. Pricing being #1. What all am I paying for? Personally I’m expecting a tiered service so how much will they be? Am I not buying games anymore? Is everything a fee for access for the month? Personally, even if there was a great streaming option, knowing I have my console with my games saved on it or could if I want to puts me at ease.

IF stadia goes the way of the dodo what then? With X, N, and S i still have my console and can DL my games to play to my hearts content. With there being nothing physical with this, is it the “ service can end at anytime without notice at the discression of google” disclaimer that we can all look forward to? I’ll stick with PS and so on for now. This definitely won’t be a day one purchase. They have a lot of explaining to do.

[Araragifeels]

Yoshida attended this event. I wonder what he think about this.

[Sevir]

I think Google has approached it quite well with some impressive technology, things both MS and Sony and Nintendo will look to replicate, as going forward streaming games remotely will become bigger. But the fact that in 2019 gamers can expect this means Next Gen Consoles will have multiplayer features similar to Stadia. I'll be keeping my eye on this. I'd love to be a game developer for Stadia and Sony.

[tontontam0]

Oh no some sub sea cable broke my internet is down, I'm just going to play a single player game today, oh shit!

[jlove4life]

They showed A destructible environment game made in a few weeks look better than crackdown 3 why they had yrs

[ShawnardAgain]

As a person lucky enough to have gigabit fiber optic internet I am definitely interested in how they plan on monetizing this.

[RizBiz]

I appreciate that they put the control sticks in the correct position.

[Mystogan]

They barely demoed anything. It was all fluff. Where are the requirements? Pricing? GAMES?

They announced this way too early.

[chris235]

day 1 buyer. wanna see where the whole story of the gaming industry is going. for the clingers to the past there is always this company that is 1 or 3 gens behind everyone else, so you still got the chance to support them and buy their physical copies.and replay stale formulas. sony and micky for sure got the same plans already up their sleeves. microsoft has been preparing for this since the release of their xoxbox.

i like how some kids are trapped in the illusion that clinging on to their physical dustcatchers somehow gives them an edge over digital
distribution. i guess dinosaurs also were full of such illusions and see what happened. the truth is that most clingers to physical copies need the ability to trade in one dustcatcher for a new one.