NEWS GOOGLE STADIA GAMING SERVICE
Ultra, three
months of Stadia
Pro (plus a
buddy pass),
and Destiny 2.
Tests will begin
in November,
meaning the rest
of us won’t see
Stadia until
sometime in
2020,
presumably. On
the Sunday after
Google’s Stadia
event, Microsoft countered with its own
Project xCloud details at its own E3 press
conference. The Project xCloud streaming
service is due to arrive in October.
For now, I can’t say anyone’s really sold
me on streaming or subscriptions, but it looks
like the industry is headed in that direction in
a hurry. The next generation’s certainly going
to be an interesting one.projects that aren’t working out.
For now, it’s hard to know whether Stadia
Pro will be a good value or whether that
awkwardly named Stadia Base (a.k.a. The
Way Every Store Works) will dominate. Hell,
even though this was Google’s big blowout
event, it still feels like a lot of crucial details are
missing, including a hard release date.
Instead it sounds like we’ll get a rolling
series of launches, similar to past Google
platforms. If you want to be one of the first
into Stadia, you can buy the
Stadia Founder’s
Edition for $129 (go.
pcworld.com/
stfe). It comes
with a
controller, a
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