PC World - USA (2020-01)

JANUARY 2020 PCWorld 93

Google Stadia: A glimpse of a

future some other company will

probably perfect

Google’s game streaming service Stadia is occasionally exciting, often disappointing, and

more than a little perplexing. BY HAYDEN DINGMAN

W

ith Stadia, there are no

easy answers. Every

compliment I want to pay

Google’s game streaming

service—and there are quite a few actually—is

shackled to a caveat, a complication, or a

complaint. Sometimes all three.

That’s a problem. The biggest problem,

really. Google intended Stadia to simplify the

way people consume games. No hardware!

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