Published , by Charles Singletary Jr
Published , by Charles Singletary Jr
Google has been a constant at GDC for many years, but today is the beginning of a new age. For the first time, during GDC 2019, Google hosted a full keynote. Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage and spoke at length about the gaming community before announcing Google Stadia, the company's game streaming console.
Google execs spoke at length about the Stadia giving players "instant" access to content, going so far as showing a quick jump into a game that took less than five seconds. In the future, the Stadia will be able to function across desktops, laptops, and more. Assassin's Creed Odyssey was then shown running on a Chrome browser and then the staff member switched over to a phone with no loss of quality. Next, they showed the game off on the "least power" PC they could find, again with no loss of quality. The player switched over to a Pixel Slate tablet and, lastly, the team streamed the game to a television with a Chromecast Ultra.
Google Stadia will be able to work with controllers that players already own, but Google did introduce its own gamepad.
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