In fact, right there in my Chrome browser-right there on my Mac-I saw Ubisoft’s vision of ancient Greece unfold on my screen in a way I hadn’t expected. He repeated that Stadia will be coming to Chrome browsers, which are available on “many screens” ranging from TV and laptops to mobile devices and tablets.īut that didn’t happen. “We aren’t disclosing specifics beyond what was shared in the keynote,” the representative said. The responses were evasive but not dismissive. Yesterday I bombarded a Google representative with questions: Will we be able to use Stadia on both macOS and iOS? Will it work on Safari as well as Chrome? Will you be able to use Stadia with an MFi controller? Even if you’re lucky enough to have an internet provider who doesn’t have data caps, you may be one the the many rural internet users who deals with download speeds that are barely faster than the cattle grazing outside.Īnd that doesn’t even begin to touch on the questions of how well Stadia will work with Apple devices in particular. infrastructure and data caps that aren’t designed for running games at 4K at 60fps. That’s not so much Google’s fault as it is the fault of widespread U.S. With a service like this, we wouldn’t even have to worry much if Apple started making its own processors for the Macs.Īnd yes, it sounds a little too good to be true. If it works as well as described, it effectively tears down all the walls to Mac gaming we’ve dealt with for years.

In still other words, this could change everything for Mac and iOS gamers who feel limited not only by the limitations of the operating systems but also by the Mac’s incompatibility with Nvidia cards and other PC gaming staples. If all goes well, in other words, you won’t need a setup like this to play a new big-budget game on a MacBook. Ultimately, the only thing you’ll need to pay is your presumed Stadia fee (which is unknown at the moment) as well as your internet fee, although Google will sell its own controller. Supposedly Stadia works so well, in fact, that you’ll be able to stream a game as graphically intensive as Doom Eternal in 4K resolution at 60fps.

When the specs flashed the specs on screen yesterday, they resembled those of the Radeon RX Vega 56. Google itself will house all the hardware, and it claims that hardware is better than what we find on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Stadia is a platform that will let you stream games from Google’s servers to any device that runs the Chrome browser (although it may limit the devices at first). Google’s presentation yesterday left plenty of questions unanswered, but here’s what we know.

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