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what's up guys Eber here with hardware connects pardon me for my voice I'm still recovering from a cold that I caught a Computex but nonetheless three months ago at GDC Google unveiled project Stadium a new streaming gaming platform that could potentially revolutionize the way how we think of gaming in the future now stadia is all about giving access or instant access to everyone who just want to get into the whole gaming field and experience the best of what they can especially share their experience and of course get together as a community and not worry about dealing with you know hardware requirements or whatnot it's certainly it's a different approach to gaming for sure now today Google actually unveiled pricing and availability for Cydia so here's everything that you need to know about stadia but first a quick word from our sponsor the newbie quiet dark rock slim cooler offers high physical clearance for any memory module thanks to its slim heatsink and the low profile 120mm airflow optimized fan so you get great cooling low noise easy installation and no issues for high profile RAM check it out below alright so let's get to what exactly stadia is and I'm sure most of you are aware of it but just for those of you who are wondering it's essentially a cloud-based platform that allows users to stream any game at any time on any screen wherever they are and given how Google has entered this new game streaming service it's supposed to work efficiently with other Google services like YouTube you see one of the biggest trends these days is game streaming a lot of people love watching their streamers play their favorite games on YouTube or other platforms like twitch so it's stadium it actually gives users the ability to stream any game anywhere on a screen so for instance if you're watching someone's stream Assassin's Creed Odyssey or Metro Exodus on YouTube Stadium will actually allow or give you an extra option where you can play that particular game with a matter of seconds so you don't have to worry about any hardware requirements everything is based off Google's data centers so there is no installs no downloads of patch or whatnot you'd have to download a 50 or 60 gigabyte folder on your system to get this thing up and running it's just you know simply click a button and you're instantly in the game in your world doing your own thing not to mention stadia will give users the option to stream their particular game play on the platform so for instance if I want to hop into a game play and if I want to stream my gameplay on youtube I could do that simultaneously without having to worry about a separate streaming machine and the hardware clients for that or fiddling out with OBS or other you know services it's genuinely really really exciting now there are certain requirements for stadia and that primarily revolves around your internet connection so they claim that you can stream up to 4k at 60 frames per second in HDR with surround sound as long as you have a 35 megabits per second internet connection but if you have something in the lower 10 or 20 you can stream up to 720p at 60 frames per second in stereo sound the other requirement is that if you're on a PC or notebook you just need to have chrome installed on that and you'll be able to hop into this whole new platform right away if you're on Chromebook or Chrome OS it's a same story as long as you have the Chrome browser you're good to go and especially for those of you who I have a pixel 3 or pixel 3a the Google stadia app will natively support those devices at launch and Google will be planning on adding or supporting other devices later on now let's talk about the stadia controller it comes in a few colors including clearly white just black and wasabi that's right my friends Google's naming scheme is quite interesting actually there's also a limited edition knight blueberry and that's only available to users who've bought the founders Edition and I'll get to that in a minute the controller itself is pretty straightforward it uses Wi-Fi to connect directly to the game running in the data center to get you the best experience there are certain buttons conveniently located on the controller for instant capture saving and sharing your gameplay and it also comes with a Google assistant button as well stadium also supports Xbox one and ps4 controllers and a standard mouse and keyboard input as well which is awesome I should also mention that if you want experience stadia in your living room say for instance your TV you can just plug in the chromecast ultra module to the TV and set up stadia that way moving on to game support and this is this is a big one you see at launch you have access to the newly announced voltage gate 3 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon breakpoint the division 2 Assassin's Creed Odyssey Mortal Kombat 11 grid Autosport NBA 2 kay Metro Exodus doom eternal and more Google has promised to expand the game library moving forward and their partnership with EA and Ubisoft could mean that stadia could be the ultimate game streaming platform and I can't wait to see what they could come up with or what they would turn out to be in the next five years now with all that being said we have to take a look at the competition because the one thing that does come to my mind is in videos GeForce now which weirdly enough is still in beta mode so the users would have to access a request for access to their beta program and while the library is fairly vast it's mostly steam related games and nothing more than that so this is certainly an interesting take around with stadia they're definitely partnering up with a lot of these developers around the world to bring most or the best of the games as possible as they can to a lot of users all right so let's get on to pricing and availability starting off with stadium Pro which is a $10 per month subscription fee and that gets you the highest streaming quality up to 4k at 60 frames per second in HDR wood 5.1 surround sound you can unlimited access to free games starting with the entire collection of destiny 2 there's also stadium founders Edition founders Edition that actually is quite interesting I've heard of that name before how does Edition oh and video dad that certainly rings a bell it certainly does but anyways it's $130 u.s. or $170 Canadian and think of it as a bundle or a starter pack for users who really want to get into this hole or get to experience stadium at first or they want to get their hands on as early as possible so it comes in as a bundle and what you're getting is a chromecast ultra module along with a limited edition knight blue state controller you also get three months of stadium pro subscription as well as an exclusive stadium which means that as long as you hop into the platform you get to claim a name for yourself that's pretty cool there's also a three month buddy pass so you can gift stadia Pro access to a friend or family member for three months at no cost also you can purchase an additional state controller for around $70 u.s. or $90 Canadian and you can pre-order the founders right now and Google did mention that it is only for a limited time and only in limited quantities so not exactly sure you know when it's gonna run out I certainly have placed my pre-order for sure because I really want to get my hands on this and share my experience with you guys as soon as I get my hands on this definitely stay tuned for that there's also stadia bass which is a free service and it allows users to stream up to 1080p at 60 frames per second and you can buy and keep the games you want and stream them wherever you are now there are some things to consider stadia base is only going to come next year so if you really want to experience it right away you're actually better off you know going for the premium subscription fee which is the $10 per month option with stadia pro or the stadia founders edition that comes with a bundle pack the other thing that Google really didn't get into is accessibility and availability with stadium pro and stadium base you see even though that you can access some of these games anywhere you are it looks like stadia is gonna be a combination of game store as well as being able to play some of these games but at the same time you're gonna have to buy some of these games with your own money in order to access it from any device so it looks like you might have to pay the full premium price for a game on stated base whereas would stay a pro you would get some discounts with some of these games that roll out later on plus it looks like a lot of these game libraries will be exclusive to stay a pro whereas database will take some more time to get access to those titles stadia will be launching this November in 14 countries including US Canada the UK and of course the list that you see over here Google is planning on expanding then as time goes on so I guess we'll just have to wait and see how this all plays out in the next few years now what's really interesting is that Google has actually integrated AMD weight on GPUs into the data center and they've also included developer tools to create the foundation of stadia so it looks like they do have the hardware to back it up because they're using second-generation HBM to memory to provide fast and predictable performance it also features error correcting code to ensure protection is key but my biggest concern is obviously gonna be latency and I'm sure a lot of you guys would agree with me on that as well because in the past I've tried a lot of these streaming services and they weren't really that great particularly with NVIDIA and gamestream I mean I've tried streaming a game for my PC to the shield over my Wi-Fi network and it wasn't really that great we've also try and aim DS game streaming service actually I'll leave a link to that video right over here where you can watch our experience going through that setup and you know it worked seventy percent of time latency was still present it wasn't really perfect so like I said I guess we'll just have to wait and see what stadia has to offer and I can't wait to get my hands on this and share my experience with you guys but let me know what you guys think about stadia is it something that you know you would consider trying out yourself and but at the same time you know do you think stadia is the future of gaming now if it turns out to be successful it could also be a little bit of a problem as well because you know it will be difficult for gaming brands to start promoting their products for certain things because you know if latency is not even an issue if it doesn't even exist with stadia things could just turn a whole new way a complete complete degree could take a complete turn in the whole industry so yeah I guess we're just going to wait and see let me know what you guys think about state in the comments down below I'm even with hurricane axe thank you 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