Google’s Video-Game Platform Wants to Replace Your Console With the Cloud

Photo: Google In a prerecorded presentation on Thursday, Google answered some of the looming questions about Stadia, its game-streaming platform that seems poised to take on the likes of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo as a new major presence in the video-game industry. The elevator pitch for Stadia is that it is hardware-agnostic: the game software runs on a remote server in a Google data center, and the video feed of that is beamed to the user’s screen. They can then control it with whatever input device they want, whether that’s their keyboard and mouse, a controller they already own, or Google’s own Stadia-specific controller. If the gambit works, it could represent a seismic shift in the game industry, not unlike streaming video from Netflix or music from Spotify. Google finally revealed details like pricing and the tech specs required to play games on Stadia. If you want to play it this year, you’ll need to sign up for Stadia Pro, which costs 10 dollars a month (a free tier is launching in 2020). If you have a decently fast connection, Google says you’ll have parity with top-performing video-game consoles currently on the market, but if not, you’ll still be able to… Read full this story

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