Tech Advisor - UK (2020-04)

APRIL 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 65

to 1080p, and it’s an ugly 1080p. The compression

artifacts, already noticeable on a Chromecast at the

maximumstreamingquality,areomnipresentonPC.

It’sa definiteissuein darkenvironments,andcan

evenbe spotted on Destiny 2’s ‘Destination’ menu.

Still, there’s a novelty to running these games

ondevicesthatshouldn’tbeabletorunthem.Got

a cheaplaptop at home? Hook it up to an ethernet

cable,popopenChrome,plugin a mouseorthe

Stadiacontroller (or an Xbox controller for that matter)

and you could be running a pretty good facsimile of

Destiny 2 or Red Dead Redemption II or Assassin’s

Creed Odyssey. That’s the real promise of Stadia, and

when 4K support is added to the Chrome version in

2020 it could prove pretty interesting.

Phones are a disaster, though. Even if you’ve

purchased the Founder’s Edition, at launch Stadia only

Or while waiting to queue
into the Haunted Forest