DOOM ETERNAL THE GAME IS COMING TO STADIA

Google General Manager Phil Harrison speaks at Google's keynote at GDC 2019 in San Francisco: Reuters 

Afterward centuries of gossips and guesswork, Google publically detailed its tactics to enter the video-game business previous this year.

Those plans start with a new service named Stadia (pronounced "STAY-dee-uh"), which Google CEO Sundar Pichai said will offer blockbuster games on any device that can run the Chrome web browser — the whole a lot from phones and tablets to laptops and televisions.

Google extended on that declaration in June: Stadia launch this November, and charges $129 for the "Founder's Packet." 

BUY A GAME CONSOLE?

Stadia are a cloud-based video-game streaming service. You do not need to buy a game console. Contrasting Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's PlayStation, and Nintendo's Switch, Google is gifted no extra hardware is compulsory with Stadia.

 "At inauguration, we'll upkeep being able to play games from corner to corner desktops, laptops, television, tablets, and phones. This firsthand generation of gaming is not a box,"

- Phil Harrison, a Google vice leader, said in March.

Instead, the processing is handled "in the cloud" — by Google's hardware in a data center — and streamed to you instantly. 

Your contributions are then rapidly beamed back to the PC somewhere else. This is an oversimplification of what is assuredly a deeply complicated process, but it is similar to how Netflix works: Instead of having to run physical media, it is simply streamed to wherever you are watching it.

Stadia viewed and sensed like playing it on something else, truly. The image superiority was overwhelming, and I saw no strange effects on the screen motionless or in motion.

I am sure a side-by-side comparison slowed down would show a difference, but in real-time and playing a fast-paced game like DOOM Eternal, there were no odd graphical abnormalities to seen, whichever as of the game himself or in the streaming of it. 

STADIA CONTROLLER HANDS-ON

To play the games, we took the casual to jumble all over the place with the Stadia controller. Based on feel alone, it seems to be high quality and durable. It had a nice weight to it, which lent it to feeling as if it was of a certain quality.

When it comes to input lag, which was not noticeable either. The caveat here is that our time with Stadia was limited, so really testing that and trying to get a feel for it was impossible. 

In addition, we played a lot more DOOM than MK11, which would probably show this off more. 

Folks that habitually play aggressive games where each frame matters will probably see some delay here. 

That is just the nature of how Stadia work. For your average person and for most games, though, based on what I played, I imagine Stadia will work great. Of course, with a decent internet connection.

The finest portion of the Stadia controller, though, is the D-pad. It was very clicky and precise. It was not lost to the touch and felt very deliberate when you push down on it. 

Aside from Nintendo’s stuff, I would put this up there as the best D-pad out there at the moment. In any case, do not sleep on the Stadia controller. If you ought to a chance to try one out, do it. You will come away surprised by how great it felt.

While Google Stadia has many attractive features, the overall package does not feel compelling because of how pricing works. Customers have to purchase (or re-purchase) games to play them on Stadia — so if you already bought a game on PC, PlayStation 4, or Xbox One, you'd have to buy it again for Stadia.

PROS

• You do not a necessity to purchase any extra hardware

• Stadia run on desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, and TV

• Stadia games and progress in those games are saved in the cloud and accessible from any device

• Games apply updates automatically so you do not need to wait

• Google assurances "no dishonest" and "no hacking" since the games run on servers, not on native consoles

• Stadia supports cross-play, including cross-platform multiplayer

• There is a free tier coming in 2020, and a $10 per month "Pro" tier launching in November

• Stadia Pro proposals free monthly games, which you keep as long as you are subscribed

• Google made a Stadia gamepad that the whole thing over Wi-Fi and with several devices.

CONS 

There is just one issue, but it is a big one: You have to purchase any games you want to play on Stadia (unless it is free, of course), even if you have already purchased them on other consoles like PlayStation 4 or Xbox One.