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Google Is Expected To Reveal Game Streaming Service At GDC In March (extremetech.com) 59

Google has sent out invites to this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) press event, where the company is expected to unveil a new game streaming product. ExtremeTech reports: There have been rumors about a Google game stream product or service for several years. Initially, leaks pointed to a hardware platform called Yeti that would stream games to a connected display. In late 2018, Google rolled out a game streaming test called Project Stream. To publicize the demo, it worked with Ubisoft to give everyone free access to the new Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Google wrapped up Project Stream in early 2019, offering players a free copy of Assassin's Creed Odyssey as thanks. Of course, you'd need a real gaming PC to run that version.

Google's GDC event will take place on March 19th at 10 AM Pacific. All we know for sure is that Google is there to talk about a gaming project. It just seems extremely likely that it will be a new phase for Project Stream. It might remain browser-only, but Google does have a giant network of TV's out there with Chromecast streaming dongles plugged in. If it could leverage those to stream games, it could instantly have as many eyeballs as Sony or Microsoft.

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Google Is Expected To Reveal Game Streaming Service At GDC In March

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  • To bad google fiber is going no where as this needs good cap free Internet to work.

  • Pack it up and go home, everybody else. Google is here to dominate yet another market.

    • This market will be fractured again by exclusives once companies start to earn real money with streaming.

  • by JustAnotherOldGuy ( 4145623 ) on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @09:08PM (#58155648) Journal

    Let's hope that this new service comes with micro-transactions and in-game purchases, because that's what people really want- more ways to drain your wallet.

    • Let's hope that this new service comes with micro-transactions and in-game purchases, because that's what people really want- more ways to drain your wallet.

      I was ready to pay an extra $100 to Mechwarrior Online to get my own Atlas, but when they announced PvP only, to hell with it. I wanna preen in the cities and wreck NPCs, not get taken down by some scooter because a game designer needed my big weapons to miss it because rock paper scissors balance.

  • by Kohath ( 38547 ) on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:50PM (#58155952)

    I predict their game streaming service will be full of ads.

    • by sad_ ( 7868 )

      i would be very surprised if it would be a free service.
      perhaps you'll get free access to some free games or a week free play, just to warm you up to paying for the full experience.

      • And who owns the *in-game* ads displayed in most freemium titles ?

        I actually doubt that Google will ever charge users of their streaming service directly.

        They'll probably considered simply as their latest ploy to bring even more advertiment expos^H sorry... huh... "free games"... to even more gamers/eyeballs.

        They'll probably recoup any cost running their service :
        - by the ad money that they already make on the games that they make more accessible this way.
        - by selling any information they ca

    • by mjwx ( 966435 )

      I predict their game streaming service will be full of ads.

      And the rest of us predict that it'll be a massive failure like every other streaming games service.

  • ... more undermining of software ownership and the right to own the things we are paying for.

  • not much difference between Steam and Stream.

  • Alternate Article Title: Google Is Expected To Cancel Game Streaming Service Within A Year
  • Google runs the program 2.5 years, then cancels it abruptly leaving dev's holding $1200 development tablets.

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