Google is betting heavily on its cloud-based gaming platform Stadia. In a blog post today, Jade Raymond, VP and Head of Stadia Games & Entertainment, announced that the tech giant is opening its first dedicated video game studio in Montréal, Canada. This Stadia Games and Entertainment’s studio has been set up to "produce exclusive, original content across a diverse portfolio of games in all your favorite genres". The company has also opened job positions for this new branch.

Google Stadia is planned to release this November and with this news, we can expect some exclusives to hit the platform in the near future. What would you like to play on the Stadia?

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[YOUCANTSTOPME]

Whether you guys see it or not, streaming is the way of the future. Maybe Stadia will be a little too early, maybe it's the right time. Internet speeds are finally getting to the point where it's possible.

Look, I totally get wanting to "own" games and have physical copies, but it's going increasingly towards streaming and subscription based models.

Also about the data caps, yeah I get it's still a thing but streaming services like Netflix survive perfectly fine.

 

[the_randomizer]

Whether you guys see it or not, streaming is the way of the future. Maybe Stadia will be a little too early, maybe it's the right time. Internet speeds are finally getting to the point where it's possible.

Look, I totally get wanting to "own" games and have physical copies, but it's going increasingly towards streaming and subscription based models.

Just because it can or will evolve to that, doesn't make it a good move. The more companies pull this crap, the more enticing it is to get back into pirating PC games.

 

[YOUCANTSTOPME]

Just because it can or will evolve to that, doesn't make it a good move. The more companies pull this crap, the more enticing it is to get back into pirating PC games.

Do you own a physical copy of every game you own or do you have some games that are digital only?

 

[the_randomizer]

Do you own a physical copy of every game you own or do you have some games that are digital only?

Steam lets you download to a local storage device, you keep it, same with Switch, etc, because it's actually on the storage of the device you own. I sure as hell won't be paying for games on top of a service for things I can't own.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Whether you guys see it or not, streaming is the way of the future

LMAO not it is not. they may have gotten away with this shit with movies on netflix but it will never ever come this way for games. nothing will ever compare to actually owning and playing your games instead of fucking renting them and hope your internet connection can keep up. stadia and cloud gaming is just another form of fucking lame online DRM and i am AGAINST ANY kind of online DRM!

 

[YOUCANTSTOPME]

LMAO not it is not. they may have gotten away with this shit with movies on netflix but it will never ever come this way for games. nothing will ever compare to actually owning and playing your games instead of fucking renting them and hope your internet connection can keep up.

k Grandpa

 

[anhminh]

Whether you guys see it or not, streaming is the way of the future. Maybe Stadia will be a little too early, maybe it's the right time. Internet speeds are finally getting to the point where it's possible.

Look, I totally get wanting to "own" games and have physical copies, but it's going increasingly towards streaming and subscription based models.

Also about the data caps, yeah I get it's still a thing but streaming services like Netflix survive perfectly fine.

Future doesn't come to every part of the world equally you know.

 

[leon315]

And I don't pay for those

And just like P$n+, M$ gold, only base games are offered, you need to play their dlcs? No problem, just pay them!

 

[_v3]

Same as $ony's psn+, m$ gold, you won'thhave access those game when subscription expires.

Aren't games with gold permanent??? I remember long ago you'd get 2 games per month to keep even after the sub expired. PS+ on the other hand makes the games inaccessible after expiration.

 

[leon315]

Aren't games with gold permanent??? I remember long ago you'd get 2 games per month to keep even after the sub expired. PS+ on the other hand makes the games inaccessible after expiration.

only x360, ps3 or vita games are urs to keep, all X1/ps4 games stop to run as soon as your sub expires.

 

[FAST6191]

Holy cow. I didn't realize physical copies of games were such a big deal for so many people still. Personally, I don't remember buying a physical copy of a game since 2010.

Also, like every news post on here about Google Stadia, there's a flood of negativity around it along with wishes of it failing. The fact of the matter is, whether or not Stadia succeeds, this is the future of gaming.

I would say within 10 years at the least in 15 years at the most there will no longer be such a thing as a gaming console, you will be able to play any game on any device anywhere, and I think that's Stadia's end goal.

Wishing for an innovation like this to fail is counterproductive and pointless. This change is inevitable. It probably won't happen as soon as Google would like, but it will happen.

The only problem with the physical copies concept I find is that it fails to have people realise we could still trade/resell downloadable games just fine, trivially even (it is an artificial restriction that you can't gift used games on the likes of Steam). Hopefully recent rulings about getting Steam et al to resell stuff go wide.

Future of gaming... debatable at what point it would come in and whether this will be the tech that manages it, and whether we would want google to manage it is also up for discussion (seeing what they have done to everything else then no thanks). For instance 3d was available long before we had 3d consoles or 3d cards in computers and earliest efforts don't really represent current thoughts on the matter or logical evolutions thereof. Similarly if this craters hard then others might pause in their attempts for a while and either give something good or delay it for a while -- investors are often noted to be scared by the number of corpses littering the road.

This would also be a site that sees people make their own mods well outside the scope of whatever the developers care to bless us with the options for. While we may eventually be able to keep a boot on the throat of the downloadable game efforts to ensure... basic rights really then streaming stuff becomes "as a service" and thus immune to most of that. Can't say that is a future I have much fondness for. Though I suppose it means games are dead for me then I get some time to work through the backlog and make some mods.

10-15 years for any game anywhere... I don't see the infrastructure catching up in time. Such a thing would require a massive mesh network, and possibly some local assets (exchange and larger cabinet level really) and I don't see most countries outside of South Korea, maybe a city or two in China and maybe a few Scandav cities getting close to that in that timeframe.

 

[pedro702]

Do you own a physical copy of every game you own or do you have some games that are digital only?

i dont own any digital only title, all my games are physical release for every console.

i dont even play online, all my consoles are disconnected from the internet, they are just for the games.

 

[Rahkeesh]

Just because it can or will evolve to that, doesn't make it a good move. The more companies pull this crap, the more enticing it is to get back into pirating PC games.

That's a bizarre threat. You aren't going to pirate games that can only be streamed, and you aren't going to encourage companies to sell downloadable games by stealing them.

 

[1NOOB]

I dont think theres an ISP in quebec willing to comply to googles demands in term of acces to the internet......could we get google Fiber xD

 

[Zeldaplayer67]

I genuinely think that I'm part of the 1% of the people who aren't completely against Stadia.

You shouldn't have said that.

Just because it can or will evolve to that, doesn't make it a good move. The more companies pull this crap, the more enticing it is to get back into pirating PC games.

Can't really do that if the games are all streamed can you?

 

[the_randomizer]

You shouldn't have said that.


Can't really do that if the games are all streamed can you?

What's the point in paying for games you can't keep?

 

[DANTENDO]

What's the point in paying for games you can't keep?

When you finish a game do you admire the box everyday - you do come out with such rubbish

 

[snobbysteven]

It's cool, but good ol USA. Comcast has me bent over with a 1tb data cap unless I pay an extra $50 a month. Soooo Stadia is a no go for me at the moment, that would burn through my data.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Can't really do that if the games are all streamed can you?

LIFE...will find a way

 

[pedro702]

When you finish a game do you admire the box everyday - you do come out with such rubbish

the difference in streaming is that the games can be pulled out of the list at any moment which means if you want to replay a game you might not be able too because its not streaming anymore, i cant tell how many times every couple years i take out all my splinter cell ps2 games and replay them all, and i can because i have the console and disc so i can play them for as long as the discs work wich is a couple hundred years xD

on streaming if the license ends same way they end on ps store or xbox live if the game is pulled out of the service is bye bye, specialy if games become streaming exclusive.

Also people are forgetting if streaming becomes the main way to play games computer gpu and cpu developments will come to an almost stand still because even a potato computer can stream noone will spent hundreds on better gpu/cpu so computer development will take a huge hit if streaming becomes the norm.