Google was never going to reveal its entire hand for Stadia at GDC this week, but its slick keynote was enough to show off a future that many seem keen to jump into. So there was no talk of cost, not even for the controller, nor any real mention of games, whether exclusive or not.…
Google was never going to reveal its entire hand for Stadia at GDC this week, but its slick keynote was enough to show off a future that many seem keen to jump into.
So there was no talk of cost, not even for the controller, nor any real mention of games, whether exclusive or not.
But this is the Games Developers Conference and Google just needed an hour to present, evangelise and pump up excitement amongst the development community. Here’s our tech solution to your problems, it said, use it and free up your creativity. As a statement of intent it seemed to hit the mark.
There was some enjoyable silicon valley absurdity to the reveal; talk of magic, a YouTube content creator hamming it up, the freedom to deliver games to billions with the touch of a button and interact with them at the same time. AI, maths, backgammon with ancient civilisations. I felt like I was in The Circle. 4K, 8K. Fuck everything, we’re doing 32K.
And there were some cool feature demos that were genuinely impressive.
