>Google sent out a fairly cryptic invite to the game developers and associated press this week in the form of a GIF (converted into relevant images below). It teases a keynote on March 19, 2019 and more information was made available shortly confirming this would be in the form of a keynote to be held at 10 am PST during GDC this year. The media giant promises to "reveal all", and also has developer-focused sessions throughout the course of the event. An early report from The Information suggests the keynote will have Google talk about their new game-streaming service, code-named Yeti. This is in line with our own expectations, after having participated in the fairly successful Project Stream beta test that concluded recently.
>Kotaku went further to suggest that Yeti is a streaming service in conjunction with a hardware platform- a simple streaming box, if you will, to take on the dedicated game consoles of 2019 and beyond. Indeed, Google has been wanting to get into this highly lucrative market, with intentions to take over Twitch before Amazon pulled one over them. There remain many challenges in general to a game-streaming world, not least of which were detailed in our own editorial linked above. But, with the next generation consoles getting ready for development and Microsoft willing to explore a game-streaming future themselves, perhaps Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and others should pay very close attention to said Google keynote in less than a month's time.
This will flop because no one will have any reason to buy this over the big 3 platforms. They will all have more games coming out, an established library of games that already exist and an already established userbase.
>This will flop because no one will have any reason to buy this over the big 3 platforms.
Chrome will flop because nobody will have any reason to use it instead of Firefox.
Lucas Butler
nobody wants a console for phone shit games. no japanese devs will join it either
William Roberts
R18 stuff and loli then I might consider it.
Jeremiah Hill
"Our Chinese masters demand a way to spy on everybody, everywhere".
Levi Myers
>"Don't be evil" >Find out google fucks with search results for certain political leanings >Google mines all data possible >Google literally changed the definition of fascim to mean right wing nationalist Fuck those evil bastards
Brandon Barnes
chrome is free. this streaming shitbox won't be, and there's no reason for anyone with a brain to buy this over the ps5, the switch or a gaming pc. google's streaming box and microsoft's streaming box will be competing for last place.
Asher Evans
>this streaming shitbox won't be They'll integrate it into their other tech and services. The next chromecast and all that shit.
Google is a spying botnet involved in collecting your personal data and being an overall nightmarish 1984 hell It's probably going to be some always online console box or will have huge incentives for being connected with it 24/7 I kind of hope for a Xbox One e3 esque reveal for the new Google console where it'll crash and burn and be laughed at
Jace Fisher
>Chromebooks don't sell >Google+ has always been a ghost town >their plans to limit fragmentation on Android always fail miserably >no one loves youtube Not every thing they do is successful. Unless it's streaming on any chrome browser and advertised with giant banners on their homepage I don't see how they'll succeed.
probably its like the service on psn. nothing new.
its shit. this console will have a bunch of garbage indies, some aaa trash with shit graphics that you can play on other platforms, and shitty phone games liek ouya
Brody Sanders
>Chromebooks don't sell had nothing to do with gaming ever >Google+ has always been a ghost town being removed stay up to date grandpa >their plans to limit fragmentation on Android always fail miserably no clue what ar you gibbering about, android will always be part of google >no one loves youtube ok buddy
Seething and retarded. Sony, MS, Nintendo already spy and use anti consumer practises on you daily. Get woke. Streaming games is the future and you can't do anything about it. See Amazon and Twitch. Publishers all will suck Google's balls just like they did with Project Stream.
Luis Peterson
>Streaming games is the future and you can't do anything about it Ok sweaty
Brody Howard
>Yeti People are going to confuse it with a Blue Yeti since it's what all the start-up streamers use for their mics. >game streaming Oh no it's retarded.
Matthew Gutierrez
But this "shitbox" is cheaper than a normal console. By your logic everyone would go buy a PC just because everything is better on a PC and you won't get fucked over as hard as with a console.
What you don't realize is that the average consumer is a braindead ant that wants to consume media the fastest and cheapest way possible. Consoles won't fill that need anymore. Consoles are dying out, get used to it.
>2011+8 >voluntarily using google products ISHYGDDT
Jayden Collins
>everything you just said Shit teir bait
Jacob Gray
btfo sweety
Kayden Peterson
>streaming games
yeah no. watch google drop this project like they always do after a couple of years of no one using it and terrible support.
Justin Baker
cringe reply no arguments anywhere. Google won, damn.
Julian Anderson
>simple streaming box There's nothing really simple about streaming video games. You're either getting fucked over by ping or input delay.
It's a waste of time with a good majority of wiring used by ISPs.
Adam Foster
>It has come to our attention that you used the word "nigger" in a gmail email. Your video game access has been revoked
Jace Lewis
How do idiots like you get past captcha?
Brody Ward
how do you get past captcha using google service everyday lmao the degenerate itt it's amazing
Ryder Perez
My uncle works at google and he says that it's going to be a very selective platform that will only allow inclusive games with diversity to be sold on it.
Parker Flores
>I can't use the word nigger in games anymore >oh god what will I do Rainbow 6, OW and all the other MP garbage uses their own filter how is this anything new? remove yourself from this planet
Hunter Edwards
They're shills posting from google hq. Captcha is bypassed for anyone posting from a google ip address.
Jaxon King
>consoles are dying out PS4 has reached 100 million consoles and PS5 along with the Switch will get better
Also good luck trying to sell your gay always online gaming chromecasts when most people have shit internet and streaming Netflix is already a giant strain on their data
I don't want pop-up ads on my console. I don't want pop-up ads on my anything.
Carson Brooks
seriously, enough with the fucking "oh, its gonna play games you would play on your phone" enough with the fucking streaming services, all of it. If you want to actually make a dent in this fucking industry, make a full blown console, and have a development studio come up with a killer app, go the whole hog or go home, you fucking amateurs.
Josiah Clark
TACYHONS
Easton Collins
nobody right in their mind would every buy something from Google, they would need to make a complete Apple dick move where you would have buy it so your phone continues to work for people to actually buy a Google Product
Samuel Foster
way to much effort create platform with most users and bait publisher to release their games on it easy
Austin Wilson
They may have the same problem that Atari had. The 2600 sold in absurd numbers, so when the 5200 and 7800 became available with superior hardware, develops still wanted to develop for the 2600 because everyone already had one. Atari was effectively destroyed by their own popular 2600. As for Google, everyone has phones, so as long as a Google console is technically backwards compatible with the phones, developers will only program up to the limit of the phones.
Isaiah Peterson
>streaming service box dead on arrival unless it's solely for single player games. There aren't enough people with access to internet speeds needed to facilitate using a stream only box for data the size and speed video games require
Carson Stewart
>most people have shit internet only true in rural america and germany
Eli Robinson
It would benefit them more to just put money towards development of games on Linux
