Google is currently making great efforts to make the Stadia gaming platform more attractive and attract many new users. Among other things, you will tap into the Windows universe and make the port to Stadia as easy as possible. This raises the question of why you don’t look around your own ecosystem and bring the Android games to Stadia.
The great success of Stadia has not yet set in, Google has certainly imagined it a little differently. But fortunately, you do not pull the plug, but give full throttle and bring a lot of innovations. In addition to the opening of the platform and the expansion as a cloud offering, these also include the massive increase in the selection of games. To achieve this, they will tap into the Windows ecosystem and make it as easy as possible for developers to port Windows to Stadia (Linux).
It’s a mammoth project. But one that promises great success when curious new users find many big and interesting titles. For me personally, however, the question arises as to why you don’t also poach in your own garden. Specifically with Android. There is hardly anything that does not exist. All the major titles that are suitable for the smartphone are available for Android. In addition, felt millions of casual titles from all imaginable areas and of course the big smartphone titles.
Why doesn’t Google tap into this platform over which you have full control? Porting Android (Linux) to Stadia (Linux) should be much easier. In addition, Google is currently busy bringing Android games to the desktop anyway. The necessary platform independence would therefore already be given.
Would Android on Stadia make sense?
On the smartphone, you can ask the question of meaning. But the advantages of Stadia would outweigh: Users could save a lot of storage space, save the battery and do without any downloads and updates. In addition, they can continue to gamble on another device or even a completely different platform. These are all things that Google has been experimenting with Android for years, but has never been able to establish it on a grand scale. Stadia would be the answer.
Android on desktop
Stadia would also be a perfect vehicle to bring the Android games to Windows. From my point of view, a better one than Google Play Games for Windows. Google itself is convinced that the future belongs to game streaming. So why establish another platform with installation necessity? It looks similar on the TV and other devices. Android games could be played on many other devices that do not actually have the technical prerequisites for computationally intensive and graphics-heavy titles.
It could bring
the masses to Stadia With deep integration of Stadia into the Play Store, you could certainly win a lot of users. Install or play right away? Some users would probably type the second button. Once the masses of users are there, one or the other would also take out a subscription.
Does Google have the resources?
If all Android users were to suddenly gamble in Google’s cloud from a utopian point of view, it would probably be excessively overwhelmed. So you would have to expand massively. But isn’t that exactly what Google wants? After all, they dreamed of 2 billion users at the time, so it should be possible in the future. Whether this will happen one day remains to be seen. But Stadia could hardly have a stronger boost.