Google Stadia: A New Streaming Service For Video Games

With just a few months away from release, I thought it would be interesting to mention about Google Stadia, Google's new cloud streaming service for video games that may start a new era in the video game industry. As someone who is majoring in Game & Interactive Media Design and who has been an avid gamer for most of my life, I regularly check on recent news happening in the industry and Google's new streaming platform is very intriguing.

The basic idea of Google Stadia is that rather than paying for an expensive gaming console to play video games, you can instead stream video games at very high quality on either your smartphone, tablet, computer, or TV screen. In a way, Google Stadia is like Netflix for games. Currently, Google will be releasing Stadia in November for about $130, but sometime in 2020, they expect to make Stadia free with a subscription service as well. However, many people in the gaming community (including myself) worry that the biggest concern for Stadia is solving the latency issue so that games don't buffer when you play them. If Stadia does become a success, it could change how we play games in the future.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/21/googles-giant-leap-into-video-game-streaming.html