Several months after the closure of Stadia, a service that Google has never really held in its heart, the multinational is preparing to offer another cloud gaming service. Integrated with YouTube this time.
Besides Google, what company is capable of launching an ambitious cloud gaming service, abandoning it a few years later, then launching another one, neither seen nor known? According to information from the Wall Street Journal published on June 24, this is on the way. The newspaper claims that the Mountain View company is preparing to offer a new streaming video game service, several months after closing Stadia. This time it would be integrated with YouTube.
Called Playables, this new service would be based on an old promise of Stadia, namely the possibility of launching a video game directly from a YouTube video (a feature that never arrived, of course). The idea would be to allow playing a video game after viewing content on the video streaming platform.
A new cloud gaming service at Google?
Playables is currently being tested internally by employees, and it is an email that is at the origin of the leak peddled by the Wall Street Journal. At the catalog level, we should not expect big titles such as we are used to seeing on PlayStation or Xbox consoles. It would be ” online games “, in the wake of Stack Bounce (“ an entertaining and endless competitive game in which you crush colorful stacks ”, indicates the description available on the Play Store).
The main advantage of Playables would be to allow instant access to a game from a trailer read on YouTube, on a browser or a mobile application. Enough to guarantee maximum compatibility on PC, smartphone or tablet, i.e. devices that everyone has. Stadia dreamed of being a serious alternative to traditional consoles. Here, the objective would be more to offer an additional functionality to YouTube, a platform where Google is experimenting a lot (example: Shorts).
In any case, it would be funny to see Google try its luck again in cloud gaming after having fried its best cartridge. The multinational has done absolutely nothing to turn Stadia into a success, when it had everything to succeed (technology in mind). We will still remember that Google is really capable of anything: a few weeks after killing Stadia, the company announced laptops ” designed for cloud gaming “. In short, you never get bored with Google.
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