• Google's Phil Harrison (you may remember him from his days at Sony).
  • The YouTube-to-Stadia interface, as shown at GDC.
  • Specs for Google's Stadia data centers.
  • How many screens can you play Assassin's Creed Odyssey on?
  • Stadia on a laptop.
  • Stadia on a smartphone.
  • Stadia on, well, another system.
  • The logo for Google's new gaming service.
  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai appears at his company's GDC keynote presentation at GDC 2019. Google
  • "Everyone" is a pretty big potential market.
  • Promises of crazy-high performance for the upcoming Doom Eternal on Google Stadia.
  • A hint at how "multi-GPU" options will boost performance and graphical options.
  • Big promise there, Google.
  • Great news.

Google has a long and well-documented history of launching new services only to shut them down a few months or years later. And with the launch of Stadia imminent, one launch game developer has acknowledged the prevalence of concerns about that history among her fellow developers while also downplaying their seriousness in light of Stadia's potential.

"The biggest complaint most developers have with Stadia is the fear that Google is just going to cancel it," Gwen Frey, developer of Stadia launch puzzle game Kine, told GamesIndustry.biz in recently published comments. "Nobody ever says, 'Oh, it's not going to work,' or 'Streaming isn't the future.' Everyone accepts that streaming is pretty much inevitable. The biggest concern with Stadia is that it might not exist."

While concerns about Stadia working correctly aren't quite as nonexistent as Frey said, early tests show the service works well enough in ideal circumstances. As for the service's continued existence, Frey thinks such concerns among other developers are "kind of silly."

"Working in tech, you have to be willing to make bold moves and try things that could fail," Frey continued. "And yeah, Google's canceled a lot of projects. But I also have a Pixel in my pocket, I'm using Google Maps to get around. I only got here because my Google Calendar told me to get here by giving me a prompt in Gmail. It's not like Google cancels every fucking thing they make."

Google itself has made similar arguments in the past. Stadia DireRead More – Source

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