Introducing Stadia from Google

The future of gaming has arrived. A new playground for every imagination. Introducing Stadia, an all-new gaming platform powered by the best of Google.

[Jin_Sakai]

What a horrible name.

[roadkillers]

That’s what people said about Xbox and Wii

[Razmiran]

And they were not wrong

[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

[DrumBeat]

I thought 'PlayStation' sounded corny when it debuted and I was thirteen, but I didn't really care because I was so wowed by the graphics, the discs, and Twisted Metal that it really didn't bother me.

We were so used to Nintendo and Sega that anything else at the time sounded silly to us.

[Razmiran]

Playstation sounds pretty stupid too
Switch is a good name. Dreamcast was top name in my books tho

[bluefox755]

...and they were right.

[RacerX]

Oh yeah, Xbox is a terrible name, but the "piss 4" was perfect.... SMH.

[SuperSonic91]

I always dreamed of a unifying platform and I thought it was Android but looks like its gonna be Stadia.

What's interesting is that YouTube to Stadia gaming connection which lets you play or join a game you see on YouTube. Now that is cool.
Also they are bringing couch co-op to the spotlight again via wi-fi.
Oh yeah, no one is gonna bitch about cross play again coz its there on the get go.

[EddieNX]

Stadia fanboy detected

[Dragonscale]

No thanks.

[ravinash]

That didn't take long.

[SuperSonic91]

@ the close minded fanatics below esp EddieNX

Really?
You guys are mentally ill fanatics
A unified gaming platform is a developer's dream so their games get discovered and played by as many people-gamers or non gamers.

Your negative and close minded mental illness is amazing!

I always appreciate the latest, the greatest and the best and give new start ups the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks for exposing yourselves.

[rainslacker]

I question the appeal of showing some of the most annoying streamers or video chat hosts/players available to make it seem like it'd be cool to play with them and you'd somehow be in some sort of cool club by doing so.

But, then I remembered, Sony actually had this as a prominent feature of the PS4 early marketing. They didn't so much push the idea of tuning in to streamers and connecting to the games that way, although it was possible. They instead, made it where anyone could stream, and become one of these people, and build their own social circle around gaming.

I'd say early on, that idea actually had traction, as was evidenced by the rather high number of PS cameras that sold with the first year or two of the PS4. I don't know where it stands now for Sony, because they don't really talk about it, but I think a lot of people forget that Sony itself targeted that segment of the market to be a core feature of the system.

Google has some new ideas for this, and they're not bad ideas overall, but them being an all streaming service means I'm pretty much not part of their market. PS4 had the base hardware, and I have ignored all the streaming stuff, outside some share plays with friends, so it remained an option, which appears to be well integrated and utilized by the user base. It will be interesting to see if Google can make it into more, but I think being able to leverage YouTube will help them a lot. Sony managed to do it with Twitch, but YouTube is a much more known and watched site overall, and it opens up a lot of business opportunities for Google, and the streamers themselves...for better or worse.

[Cobra951]

"Stadia" is actually the plural form of "stadium". For what it's worth. i wonder if they even considered that when they came up with the name.

[darthv72]

Watching the demo go from chrome book to android phone to desktop to android tablet and finally tv using the chromecast was neat.

Stadia has 10.7tf of power built by AMD. Guess they are getting serious about competing with Sony and MS.

[gamer7804]

its streaming only, so its not really competing with xbox and playstation as a whole, only their streaming services xcloud and PSnow

[AngelicIceDiamond]

Thats what I was thinkin. Its a virtual console. After what, 7, 8 years of speculation its a virtual streaming console. Noe exactly a threat tbh.

[savedsynner]

Exactly and like every game service/console before it, it's about the games games games. Make or host good games, you'll do well. Google has enough money to really push this so it'll be interesting if Sony/Microsoft pull an old school nintendo and make developers/publishers sign exclusive contracts for non exclusive games.

[demonicale]

Are you honestly that dumb?!

[ravinash]

If Playstation and Xbox keep making exclusives, then they should be fine.

[SegaGamer]

It's neat, but it wasn't running on your average internet connection. I highly doubt it will be that simple for everybody.

[darthv72]

pretty much all of these on stage demos never run over real world internet connections. It's all controlled environments. Like the CD3 cloud demo was running on a direct link to a Ms data center for the cloud assisted physics.

Generally, companies always try to showcase their demos in the best possible light. Sony and Nintendo (when they did stage demos) do the exact same thing.

[MatrixxGT]

Living in a area where my only option is lte hotspot or satellite these streaming devices are not my future.

[Cobra951]

It won't be. From what I gathered earlier, even the best-case scenario will see latencies above 166 ms. That would make it a minimum of 10 frames of lag at 60 fps.

[DeadlyFire]

More than likely ps5 and Xb4 will be comparable or better than 10 Tflops. Honestly the reason it is 10 Tflops probably has more to do with being able to port ps5 and xb4 titles to the platform.

[Emme]

I dont get it, what exactly has 10 tf power ? Its streaming from servers, so what device has 10 tf and why should I as end consumer bother ?

[Heavenly King]

All of that power does not matter. Because all is streamed!!

It all comes down to internet speed; and nothing else.

[italiangamer]

One of the most cringy video I have ever seen.

[sampsonon]

yup

[gamer7804]

google is good at coding and maths, but honestly they can't design well at all. Gmail interface looks terrible, the stadia controller looks awful, the one good thing about android is that you can customize it so it doesn't look like google...

[darthv72]

the controller is a mix of xbo and ds4 so it can't be all that bad.

[Nyxus]

"The future of gaming has arrived."

Stop making threats please.

[Chocoburger]

You mean empty threats, right?

[Nyxus]

Hopefully.

[pcz]

It is an inevitable future which all console manufactures (and consumers) have been inching closer towards each generation.

the future will be with no console, no physical one. no physical games etc. all streaming

[Sirk7x]

Glasses with AR and VR, voice commanded. "Launch game, controller setup 1." Bam, virtual controller materializes in your hand and a screen appears in front of your face. Or, "VR activate", and your VR OS/hub launches from there. Technology is going to be insane in twenty years.

[rainslacker]

Its a part of the future, and there is a market for it. It's getting a bit tiresome as a console gamer....and I even assume for PC gamers....to keep being told what the future of gaming is, as if it's some sort of absolute, one to rule them all, kind of thing.

There are lots of markets in gaming, and just like mobile devices not ending up being the future at large, neither will streaming. Just another option, which has it's pros and cons, and it's own market, some of which is shared with other markets. Some publishers will chase after it at the expense of other markets, others will avoid it or wait for it to become more proven. Customers will go on as they did, and the market will ebb and flow like it always has. I remember a time when PC gaming was dead, and it managed to rise from the ashes....mostly due to Steam. Or when console gaming was dead, but it rose from the dead....mostly because of Nintendo. Or how Single player is dead....but it's making a come back....mostly due to Sony and Nintendo.

So on and so forth. If we listened to what was the future, and took it at face value, and just accepted fate, then we wouldn't even have anything anymore.

Wanna know who will be most successful going forward? The one who still has a console, when everyone else has decided to abandon that market for greener pastures. While they all battle it out on the service front, the one that has a monopoly on the market that obviously exists because it's growing every year, will be very happy to have all those customers, and publishers aren't going to ignore 100 million plus gamers. They may still use those sub services, but our money is more important to them than where we play our games.

[pcz]

Ok, physical console gaming will exist, but only as a retro, extremely niche market for people who got left behind and are lost in nostalgia.

Millennials already view compact discs as retro technology. Blu-ray and any disk based medium will essentially be beta max- obsolete.

but yes, your argument stands, there will always be those who cling onto obsolete tech.

[rainslacker]

I think its too soon to call the end of consoles based on these services, when these services haven't yet even shown they are a major part of the market. Google hasn't proven themselves. MS hasn't even released anything yet. Sony's own service has no evidence that it's wildly successful. Prior attempts at such things haven't done that well.

The streaming market has to prove itself before it can be said to be the end of consoles. Even mobile games proved themselves before they were the end of consoles....and look how that turned out.

[timotim]

The future of gaming by Google...filled to privacy leaks, data tracking and ads...no thank you.

[vega275]

I get this strange feeling like Google will pull a Epic on us and buy exclusivity for a year. But yeah I don't want ad filled games and my personal info auctioned off to advertisers to bombard me with stuff I don't want

[demonicale]

Of course Sony and Microsoft haven't had them right?

[timotim]

Google as a company makes their living off of selling your data to other companies and businesses. They are a ad, information and search company by nature. This will be a totally online service that it heavily integrated with YouTube...they are talking about making it as easy as clicking on a link to play a game...the way they get content to its users will be through ads...click on a link in an ad and play a game....click on a link in an ad and watch a stream, etc...

[Cajun Chicken]

Ah, right. So I can get used to a game and being able to go back to play it all the time as if I own it, but one day removed off the server never to be played again?
No thanks.

[dumahim]

Was there any mention if this would be a subscription service or would you actually be buying the games on their platform?

[Lore]

Where’s the games?

[IMissJimRyan]

We don't need games. We need conectivity, social tools and experiences with online friends.

Gamer are stuff from the past.

[gamer7804]

a small selection of games... no thanks!

[rainslacker]

It's the future of gaming. The games will come in the future. But, the future never actually comes does it? That's what makes it the future.

This was a reveal announcement. Kind of a weak one really. Still lots of things that aren't known.

I prefer to live in the past. I like the past. It serves me well, and has for as long as I can remember. 40 odd years of gaming with what we have now, and in the past, and I never saw the need for any of these new things that keep getting pushed as the future of gaming. Never had a problem with other devices like mobile getting games, but a complete change in the way games are consumed is just not for me. Maybe I'm just old, but I'm not the type to be apprehensive about new technologies. Quite the opposite. But these technologies just don't serve my wants, and may not serve my needs depending on how good the serves are, and what kind of content vs. price they'll have to offer.

It's fine if other people feel differently, just wish they'd stop telling me I have to accept it, because when it comes down to it, I really don't have to, as the past has plenty of content for me to last the rest of my life and never have to play a new game. It'll be a shame I won't experience the advancement of game design because I just don't care for services based consumption, but it is what it is. The future gamers can do so, I just wish they'd realize what they're actually leaving behind in doing so. May not be an issue for some, or even many, but they're not getting as much value overall for their dollar with these models.

[sprinterboy]

I game enough already, I don't want to be able to take that everywhere I go. There is more to life than just gaming.

[rainslacker]

I don't mind taking gaming with me. But it's through a portable device....currently Switch being the most often used, with some Vita love on the side. It's reliable to just start up and play, and I don't have to worry about the internet in my location.

I do see a lot of people saying 5G will change everything....as if cell phone providers, which is what most people will have to connect to 5G, are somehow so supportive of the userbase having cheap, and plentiful data plans on their devices a thing. I sometimes wonder if people eve look at the bigger picture, then I remember most don't, and then realize don't realize that 5G is going to be a while before it becomes ubiquitous because the cell service providers are more about charging more for new things, than they are about advancing technology. Won't even get into the fact that the government in the US hasn't allocated them enough bandwidth on their data bands to even be able to handle this much streaming data....but that's another issue which I don't think people realize that the airwaves aren't just free to use in the US. Probably not in other countries as well.

[Gamist2dot0]

The moment I hear Phil Harrison, my confidence for Stadia went down hill.

[italiangamer]

The guy really went downhill when he left Sony.

As most of the people that does that honestly.

[Kabaneri]

The name sounds like an STD.

[spicelicka]

LOL

[timotim]

🤣🤣 Yeah...sounds more like the name of one of those drugs you see on the commercials that suppose to cure something but has all of those crazy side effects like "may cause diarrhea, vomiting, headaches, liver problems..." haha

[Cobra951]

These and cringe-inducing local ads will always make me stop whatever I'm doing and mute or change the channel. That's when I watch legacy TV, which is almost never these days. (Nothing else has replaced reliable local weather, yet.)

So I guess I better not even try to watch this Stadia advertisement.

[rainslacker]

Sounds more like we should see some people having a good time with family at a pleasant place, probably with a dog running around, occasionally a person looking longingly off into the distance with some sort of melancholic look on their face because they can't enjoy the good times like the others, maybe with the dog looking sad because of it.

Then we hear how Stadia will somehow make a problem we may be having, which has been around for God knows how long and they just dealt with it, or didn't even realize it was a problem, only to be followed up with all the situations in which you shouldn't be using it, followed up with the side effects that may be possible from using it, up to and usually including death.

Really parts of this ad would fit in nicely with the 2 hour block of nightly news, Jeapordy, and Wheel of Fortune that has almost nothing but medication ads on it.

Edit: Should have read further...I see Tim beat me too it.:(

[Araragifeels]

I bet New Gen PlayStation and Xbox can top it power.

[IMissJimRyan]

Do they need? You can top it with a beef PC. But, the point is: how to convince people that what they want is to play unfinished games under subscriprion?

[gangsta_red]

I guess....it's cool

[Thundercat77]

Horrible name.

I got to see more. Not impressed so far.

[Moe-Gunz]

That video did nothing for me

[2pacalypsenow]

Yawn..

[CDbiggen]

I still don't know what it is.

[Mr_Writer85]

Streaming games via a Web browser.

[dRanzer]

So why DF mention gpu and cpu? They talking about the servers?

[Mr_Writer85]

DRanzer

Pretty much, no console needed just anything that has Chrome, or Chrome cast.

[Tankbusta40]

Streaming? No thanks

[patterson]

Hey everyone, let's get socialll!

Stadia = Cancer

[gamer7804]

I'm not sure how a streaming service gets you social, it sucks your bandwidth if you were planning on streaming on twitch/mixer or communicating via voice chat.

[DrumBeat]

Yeah, it's the dawn of a new generation for games, like it or not. I'm personally not thrilled at the prospect of things being ultra-social and I'm not keen on streaming at all, but here we are.

Hopefully, PlayStation continues to heavily influence gaming as the years go on with their exclusive, story-driven games. If PlayStation buckles, we all lose. They're the ones that are keeping traditional single player gaming alive.

I also hope that Microsoft lean more in Sony's direction with these new studios they've picked up.

[rainslacker]

If I had to be social with the people I saw in the video, I'd probably want to kill myself. I hate annoying people as it is, and the last thing I want to do is play games with what amounts to people who behave like a reaction video. I don't play games caring how other people react. I play games to react myself. Sometimes things can be more fun with others, but not always.

That old lady was cool though.

But, lets face facts. The popular streamers are those that act like idiots, and women who show more than is really necessary. That's not the kind of social interaction that is really all that great for the long term. How many people want to be competiting for attention with PewDiePie type personalities while playing games. When you get everyone trying to be noticed, it's just awful.

[DrumBeat]

Hear, hear.

[ravinash]

rainslacker - your really on a roll with intelligent comments at the moment.

[gamer7804]

streaming only a selection of games... have to see how xcloud stacks up but stadia doesn't sound too promising.

[Tankbusta40]

I've always wanted to play a Farmville clone on my TV... Google solved my needs and desires!

[stupidusername]

I get the skepticism but this is honestly amazing. If you've got a stable Internet you can play the newest AAA games on any platform you want. On your TV or your tablet, or even phone. This is without a doubt the future, just as we've seen movies and music have headed towards streaming. Though there will always be people with their vinyl records being vinyls, people wanting to own a pyshical Blu-Ray og a console with a disc.

I don't necessarily need to own my games in the same way I don't need to own movies or music.As long as this doesn't pave way for even more microtransactions and such, then I'm loving this.

[dumahim]

I probably won't get it, but I am curious about the controller that connects to wi-fi instead of your device to reduce lag.

[Traecy]

I'll stick to traditional console gaming though I'm curious to see Stadia's exclusive line up.

[Soybetaboy]

Lamest name ever

[DrumBeat]

You're just not used to it. When I was thirteen and PlayStation (one) was introduced, I thought the name was terrible.

'The station where you can play'

It sounded infantile to me, and I thought it would perpetuate the idea that video games are just toys for kids. When I asked my parents for it they scoffed. "PlayStation? What does that do for you? How much is it going to cost me for you to play?' What about the Sega and the Nintendo?"

They really harped on the name as a point of shame.

[badz149]

they are using the name to always remind you that you need a steady internet connection to use it

[victorMaje]

ISPs are going to have more fun than gamers with this.

[Spartacus10]

They make it sound like its going to be oasis from ready player one.

[PoSTedUP]

i know right. this is your life now!

[The7Reaper]

If they can make the oasis a real thing and look as fun as it did the movie I'm all in but I don't see anything like that happening in my lifetime lol

[coolastheycome]

😴😴😴

[Kostche]

no thanks, dont support anti consumer, censorship platform

[SegaGamer]

Stadia = No mods, no cheats, no trainers, no ownership, no thank you.

[badz149]

just welcome LOL

[Inzo]

Pass

[BlaqMagiq1]

This will not last long

[Kumakai]

not for me.

[Bronxs15]

Excitement level: 0

[Platformgamer]

this is just fry air.
there are already too much companies in the gaming industry, i don't need google and his only digital-streaming service.
i bet that the "exclusive" they're working on will be at the same level as the ouya ones ;)

[Melankolis]

Together. Together. Together. Together.

When i'm gaming i need privacy damn it!

[deno]

What a hipster commercial. I'll stick with my ps4/Xbox and switch. If anything, bring sega back in the console market.

[outsider1624]

So anyone on here knows what the specs are for this console?
Single player games if any?

[The7Reaper]

Hm... No thank you.

[Dragonscale]

Its just a platform for casuls tbh.

[Fritzwochel]

Just gonna say it: Fuck Google and fuck this shit here. It's a change for the worse for us gamers (higher latency, compression artefacts, low quality sound stream).

The real vaule for google is they can monitor and collect even more data about you and your habits. If you haven't already noticed advertisements and product placement inside games you sure as hell will now. But this is only a small part. Imagine Google logging everything you do inside games, they can build a profile of your behaviour and link it up to your personal profile collected across the web. Play too many violent games for an extended period and you can be put under suspicion by the feds etc

[bluefox755]

Am I the only one that has zero interest in this?

[NickAwesome]

Yeah, no thanks stadia. I want to OWN the game. I want to know i can come back, insert, and play the game 30 years later. Physical copies are still important to me, cause it practically guarantees that I can play the game in the future. With proper care, of course.

[Heavenly King]

All of that power does not matter. Because all is streamed!

It all comes down to internet speed; and nothing else.