Google Stadia
Google Stadia is a new way of playing games that was presented by Google at GDC 2019. Its a way of being able to stream games from Googles server farm and access and play them in your Google Chrome browser. It’s a great way for people to play games who do not have the funds to get a gaming console/gaming PC . This is due to how “[it] offers instant access to play” all with the “click of a button”/ “click of link.” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUih5C5rOrA)
Despite how great Stadia sounds in theory, I do have a few problems with this if it was to become “the future of gaming” as their tag line states.
With Stadia being a streaming service for video games, there will most likely be a monthly fee, on top of having to buy the games themselves. Then, even though you bought the game, you technically don’t own it since it lives on a server farm with Google. This also means that you . The idea of Stadia is amazing for letting more people play games and I like that, I just don’t think that this kind of streaming is a good way to make the future of all gaming.
Now with that little rant out of the way, the technology that Stadia is bringing to the table will be some really great advancement in our streaming capabilities. Plus, if they do add in like a playable demo for every game, this will allow people the chance to actually test games before buying them, which is something video game consumers have never been able to do on a wide scale before.
I think Stadia is a great platform and idea, I’m sure it will work amazingly for single player games and perhaps a few multiplayer games, but latency issues will always be a thing when you press a button on you computer, the signal goes to the server farm, the action is read and executed, and then the info travels back to your computer and updates on your screen. However I believe Google is over estimating how big of an impact this will have on the future of gaming. People like to own what they pay for, and the ability to play games without Internet access.
