Google Stadia continues to make the rounds throughout the games industry, with fan reactions ranging from healthy skepticism to strong excitement for the cloud-based platform announced at GDC 2019.
Overall, though, in an interview with Variety Google Stadia VP Phil Harrison said developers and publishers alike provided 'phenomenal' support so far, including some 'unexpected' parties. More will be revealed about the studios supporting Google Stadia in the Summer.
We’ve had phenomenal support from game developers and publishers all around the world from places that you would expect and some places that you wouldn’t expect. You’ll see us share in the summer our launch line-up and beyond and you can make a judgment then as to how successful you think we’ve been. I’m super happy with the way we have built this out.
Harrison also revealed that the whole Google Stadia project was initially spearheaded by the internal Chromecast team, who wanted to see whether they could use their streaming technology for gaming.
Where Stadia started was actually out of the Chromecast team. They had had a huge success with Chromecast in empowering streaming of linear media, particularly TV and movie content. And then it was like, ‘OK, so we have this platform, what else could we do with it? Is there an opportunity for us to actually stream games through this technology.
The third piece of it was the networking fabric that we build into our datacenters. It’s not something that we talk about publicly, but we have some very leading edge, arguably the most leading-edge hardware innovation inside the data center.
Just joining those three things together into an opportunity to really accelerate into a very vibrant business.
Chromecast will be the main way to use Google Stadia with a TV. Alternative ways to play games through Google Stadia will include PCs (desktop or laptop), smartphones and tablets.
About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.
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