What’s actually going on at Stadia? We’ve been wondering that for a long time because Google’s streaming service isn’t the only thing we’ve criticized. Whereby Google is more in the criticism, less the offer itself. In the last few weeks, a few news about Stadia have accumulated again, but unfortunately not without bad news.
Xbox cloud gaming steals benefits from Stadia
Now you can say again that I like hacking around on Stadia. But even those who like to blame me don’t see a bright future in Stadia. What’s likely to really hurt Stadia these days is the loss of a very powerful perk. Because Xbox Cloud Gaming now also allows mouse and keyboard.
Stadia is shrinking the advantages it had against the more well-known names for a while. Most recently, this also included availability on Samsung Smart TVs. Xbox is also following this topic and wants to be available directly on Samsung TVs.
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— Resident Evil Village Streaming Demo Status (@REStreamingDemo) June 9, 2022
Games don’t come: Google itself delivers further disappointments
Not only does the range of games lags behind the promises. It also happens from time to time that announced titles do not appear for Stadia at all. Should be the case with “The Quarry”, which was actually planned as a big title for Stadia. Now the game isn’t coming later, it’s probably not coming at all.
Microsoft is adding keyboard and mouse support to Xbox Cloud Gaming soon. Xbox devs are being encouraged to add support to games now so they light up in xCloud once the integration is ready https://t.co/nBlgat5voJ pic.twitter.com/aYc5HftCia
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 21, 2022
The game was once planned as a “signature release” for Stadia. The originally announced partnership with the developers of the title probably died due to the end of their own gaming studios. Another bitter pill. “High on Life”, also not released for Stadia, was originally planned as a fat Stadia title.
Stadia: New demo shows just how awesome it actually is
Capcom has provided a demo for Resident Evil Village via Immersive Stream. This is known to be the technology behind Stadia, which Google is now increasingly white-labeling for businesses. For example, to offer demos of your own games via stream. This shows once again how awesome Stadia actually is.
All I have to do is click through to the demo website and I can jump right into the game on my Macbook Air. No download, no installation, no controller required. However, what you also see when using Immersive Stream is the lack of Stadia branding. You actually don’t use this business offer to promote Stadia.
Gaming Chromebooks: Stadia is not alone
Google actually focuses on itself when it comes to its products and only brings others on board later. Chromebooks are different. For example, there is a test run for Steam. In addition, Chromebooks marked for gaming will also have GeForce Now pre-installed from the factory in addition to Stadia.