Game startup Gaikai streamed the high-end first-person shooter Bulletstorm to the Chrome web browser today in a demo at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
A new report by Android Police says Google is working on bringing Steam to Chromebooks.
There is nothing wrong with that. Gamers should be able to play on as many devices as possible, and even the smallest devices are getting good at playing complex games through streaming.
Steam is going to have to change otherwise it will become irrelevant in a few years. Vendors that don't allow me to play on many devices is going to be a major "must have" for me going forward.
Google Stadia, PSNow, and XB Console/xCloud Streaming will all allow that and I will favor platforms that give me the ability to reduce my costs and increase the amount of places where I can just pickup and play.
They would have to revamp a lot of the core features of the Chromebook to make them by useful for gaming. Trading the current low end Pentium and Celeron cpus for Amd Zen 2 Apus would be a good start, but they would also have to finally ditch the low end DDR3 and 32/64 GB eMMC storage that most of Chromebook are still produced with.
Or they could just port Steam Link and call it a day.
That would kind of making the chrome book, pointless if the specs would have to get bumped to support steam.
Chrome books are suppose to be cheap laptops.
And they have stadia
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Google has now announced the Google Stadia Release date. Google Stadia Founder's Editions and Google Stadia Premiere Editions will both begin shipping "in the same order that pre-orders were received." Shortly after Stadia packages begin shipping, those who pre-ordered will receive a code to activate their Stadia account and Stadia Pro.
Selling out founders edition everywhere is saying how bad it's going to fail .... hmmmmm
Google Stadia fundamentally misunderstands its target audience. Casual users aren't willing to adopt this new business model.
I can see a revision in proving happening at some stage you can't expect people to pay 10 a month to play games they already brought
Bye Bye consoles!!!!
I tried out Crysis 2 on Gaikai and it works. Slight latency but it will only get better as the tech improves.
Your limited to 1280 x 720p resolution but it's set to Ultra settings.
Now that Nvidia is into Cloud gaming, there is no holding it back.