Google Stadia launched this week. What's Google Stadia? We dig into the tech giant's new cloud gaming service.
If you’ve used the internet at all in the last week or two, there’s a solid chance you’ve heard of Google Stadia. The latest project from the all-encompassing tech giant launched earlier this week, on Nov. 19, and has a name that is impossible to parse if you didn’t already know what it did. So whatit do? Why does it exist? Who is it for? We honestly can’t answer those last two questions, but we can help you with the first one.
you might think Google would be involved with. Stadia is a new platform that lets you play the big name, big budget gaming blockbusters found on consoles like the PlayStation and the Xbox, without having to buy a videogame console. If you want to keep up with the latest games but don’t want to drop several hundred dollars every few years to get the latest technology, Google is here to help with Stadia.It’s got nothing to do with the cloud you can ride in Super Mario.
You’ll have to buy them all individually, at the same price you’d pay for a console or PC edition. Since there’s no physical copy, and the games run on Google servers and not on your end, you’re paying anywhere from $20 to $100 for games that you won’t own in any way, physically or digitally, on your end. Expect most games to be $59.99 when they come out, and eventually drop in price until settling in at $19.99 for the long haul.
Google has shut down a decent number of its products in the past. What happens to those games I bought if Stadia ceases to exist? That’s a great question! Those games are gone. If Stadia goes away, you don’t own the games you bought through it anymore. You’ll be able to locally save your game save files, and perhaps if you buy those games again for your PC you’ll be able to access those save files. But if Stadia goes away, so do your games.Google has tried to assuage these fears by repeating that they plan on supporting Stadia for years to come, but business is business.
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