A new report from Kotaku claims that Google is very close to shipping a product, whether it is only a game streaming service or a console is yet to be discovered, which would be set to enter in competition with PlayStation and Xbox. According to Jason Schreier, the plan is based on three points: “1) Some sort of streaming platform, 2) some sort of hardware, and 3) an attempt to bring game developers under the Google umbrella, whether through aggressive recruiting or even major acquisitions.”
A new report from Kotaku claims that Google is very close to shipping a product, whether it is only a game streaming service or a console is yet to be discovered, which would be set to enter in competition with PlayStation and Xbox.
According to Jason Schreier, the plan is based on three points, which could all enter into place together or singularly: “1) Some sort of streaming platform, 2) some sort of hardware, and 3) an attempt to bring game developers under the Google umbrella, whether through aggressive recruiting or even major acquisitions.”
“At the Game Developers Conference in March of this year, Google representatives met with several big video game companies to gauge interest in its streaming platform, which is code-named Yeti, sources said.”
The streaming service could possibly run through YouTube, letting you check walkthroughs of a game you’re stuck in while still playing, without even leaving your Chrome tab.
We’ve already met Yeti in the past, but it looks like that the evolving plan at Mountain View is moving into linking the streaming service with a proper console; it is yet to be learned whether that console is going to be a cheap Android device or a high spec box similarly to Xbox and PlayStation.
Streaming has indeed been the talk of the town at E3 this year, but there’s some sort of skepticism around it, mainly because of the quality of the Internet connection both worldwide and in Rural America.
On top of that, Google isn’t believed to be a reliable company when it comes to gaming, as it has already proved to change its mind very quickly with its experiments (see Google Glass, for example), and other big non-gaming companies such as Amazon have tried and pushed their efforts on video games but haven’t shipped any titles yet.
Source: Kotaku
