Google teases gaming announcement for GDC

Can't say I'll be very excited if it ends up being related to streaming games

 

What was it?

 

I love that blip in the end. Sounds and looks like a console boot animation.

 

The end is near.

 

I don't know what this will be but im definitely excited for it

 

Android powered box, maybe with a token effort from a few bigger (but probably not biggest) companies. Similar to Amazon's efforts a while back, Nvidia's shield, Asus' phone thing a while back and half a dozen others.

I don't think Google or tech quite has the juice yet for all streaming, all the time.

One of them will likely stick eventually, or have enough money ploughed into it that it does by default.

 

4 words:

Android box, gonna suck

 

It'll basically be Shield TV 2, and thus doomed to obscurity much like Shield TV was, for having no exclusives. The streaming options on the Shield TV are pretty nice, as I'm sure will be the case for Google's console, but I can't see them doing much to set themselves apart from the competition otherwise. Seems foolish, especially at a time when Microsoft is seemingly contemplating getting out of the console race.

Then again, Google has plenty enough money to throw at any project they wish, so more power to them I guess. I won't be buying it though, no real collector's value in something like that IMO.

 

Lol no thank you. Moved away from Google as much as possible already, I don't need their shite android box spying on me either.

 

Nothing has been announced yet everybody already hate everything about it.

Good start.

 

I expect them to try full on streaming - Google just hasn't been much of a hardware company themselves. Maybe a very cheap android box plus controller you can attach to your TV that simply streams it, but a chromecast should be able to do practically the same thing.

 

When discussing this sort of thing would you really encourage a mindset other than "everything is shit until proven otherwise"?

 

It's literally why companies throw teasers like this, to encourage speculation.

We speculate that IF it's a dumb streaming machine + garbage mobile ports with SOMETIMES controller support, then it will be complete SHIT.

 

Needless to say, we all know that this will just be another streaming box. Mark my words, it'll get a little buzz for like a couple weeks or so, then it'll join the Pit of Obscurity alongside the Shield TV and the Ouya. Additionally, I bet that there won't even be a single exclusive. (Then again, if it's going to be a streaming box whatcha gonna do in terms of exclusives?)

 

If it turns out to be an Android box with real performance power and the price is right, I may pick it up. I like the cheap Android TV box I have just for video playback. If it doesn't cost me an arm and a leg, this would be a nice upgrade that can game too... But I'm only interested if dolphin can run at fullspeed. If not this would be worthless to me.

 

Legit sitting here wanting to brush it off, but if any company has the resources to break into the games console market it'd be Google. Also, seems a little premature to compete with Microsoft and Sony in the console cycle. They're no Nintendo, so they'll need something pretty game changing to make any kind of a dent this early.

 

Google just needs to except the fact that they are and always will be a powerful search engine, but then again, I guess you can never have too much money. Go for broke, google.