Google Stadia launch lineup revealed (12 titles)

[mztik]

https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/ubisoft...ting-games-to-google-stadia-is-not-that-high/

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That article doesn't really confirm anything. Just speculation from the author in the article.

From Yves' quote in that article: "the extra cost to put to make sure the games work well on Stadia is not that high". For all we know, Ubisoft's CEO might be talking about making sure the PC game work well and users have a good experience when the game runs with Google's Stadia streaming technology. Perhaps, adding support in the existing code for the PC version to play well with the Stadia platform.

 

[ghostcrew]

Pretty weak considering you have to buy a subscription

I know there's no hardware requirement but it feels weird seeing this after signing up for $1 month game pass which converts to $5 per month after (PC) and having just downloaded Gears 5. The few games offered are good but its hard to know the audience for this given the cost (IMO the free version of stadia at 1080/60 is the interesting one).

Weak launch.

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You don't need a sub to play Stadia. You can play at 1080p with no sub. Stadia Pro gives 4k/HDR etc.

 

[unfashionable]

But you don't need to buy a subscription. 1080p is free.

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thats my point there is no free sub right now

I think the free 1080/60 is the killer app

 

[BlueManifest]

The Stadia Code is tied to a $130 hardware purchase on Google Store as of now

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Yea that's lot cheaper than upgrading a PC or buying a next gen console

and next year you won't even need that either

 

[ShinUltramanJ]

the hate for this product Era has is kinda sad.

PS4s launch line up was no better.

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PS4 launch had new games. Battlefield 4 was new. AC Black Flag was new.

These are largely old games.

 

[Captain of Outer Space]

There's a big library of suitable games on PC and 12 is the best they could do for the premium launch? Shocking.

 

[Pheace]

But you don't need to buy a subscription. 1080p is free.

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But then you're paying the same price as everyone else, to have a game you can only ever play in 1080p and 2.1 sound, until Stadia deems it the right time to either upgrade the free package, or unless you start paying a sub for better quality.

When 4k becomes cheap enough to be worth it for me, or heck, even higher, my games quality goes up with them. I'm not reliant on a service or a sub to do that.

 

[Horns]

Oh boy. I've been hoping to see Stadia be successful, but this is pathetic. What a bad way to launch your system. It needed some killer titles to make a splash.

 

[MeltedDreams]

Cannot wait to play Tomb raider reboot on Stadia.

Seriously this thing is not even available in my country. They rush it in hope to catch some interest before Christmas.

 

[bsigg]

That article doesn't really confirm anything. Just speculation from the author in the article.

From Yves' quote in that article: "the extra cost to put to make sure the games work well on Stadia is not that high". For all we know, Ubisoft's CEO might be talking about making sure the PC game work well and users have a good experience when the game runs with Google's Stadia streaming technology.

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You can go through all the GDC talks from March. Their "dev kit" are development instances in the cloud. They can also build in house developers nodes.

It's not just a PC, they have specific hardware allotments for each instance that they're allowing devs to tap into.

Ubisoft themselves have had to add an additional compiler target to be able to get games running on the platform, it's talked about in the first link below.

https://www.stadia.dev/intl/en/blog...e:assassin-s-creed-odyssey-on-project-stream/

https://www.stadia.dev/intl/en/blog/gdc-2019-session:a-guide-to-developing-on-stadia/

 

[Elven_Star]

Three Tomb Raider games? LOL.

 

[Lentic]

I still have no idea who this is for. It's a pretty mediocre lineup.

 

[Mantorok]

People that don't want hardware or don't want to buy 1,000$ gaming PCs not hard to see

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Anyone who knows enough about gaming to know how much a decent gaming PC costs or can't afford a console is very unlikely to be sitting around waiting for this kind of service. The market you're talking about sounds incredibly niche

 

[Memento]

Yeah... it is dead Jim

 

[EvilBoris]

This Humble Bundle looks great!

oh wait.

 

[T002 Tyrant]

But then you're paying the same price as everyone else, to have a game you can only ever play in 1080p and 2.1 sound, until Stadia deems it the right time to either upgrade the free package, or unless you start paying a sub for better quality.

When 4k becomes cheap enough to be worth it for me, or heck, even higher, my games quality goes up with them. I'm not reliant on a service or a sub to do that.

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That I can play elsewhere other than my house, seriously if consoles didn't have exclusives, I'd trade them in for Stadia, just much more convenient and saves my electricity bill.

 

[ZeoVGM]

As I've said before, I would get this day one if Destiny 2 shared its player base with the PC version.

But it doesn't. It's going to be a fucking wasteland.

 

[TheZynster]

Loooootta people in here that just cant grasp this service isn't targeted at them.

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Loooootta people in here see the service isn't ready yet..................its obvious this is being mismanaged to all hell and back atm.

 

[ImaLawy3r]

I don't like or hate Stadia, but...

PS4 games had to be created from the ground up or ported over to the new architecture of the system. Isn't Stadia basically a streaming service allowing you to play PC games running off their hardware on site? If so, Stadia could've launch with more existing PC titles.

Not an apples to apples comparison.

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No. It's not. All Stadia games need to be created from the ground up.

 

[Pheace]

That I can play elsewhere other than my house, seriously if consoles didn't have exclusives, I'd trade them in for Stadia, just much more convenient and saves my electricity bill.

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So can I, Steam allows me to stream my games outside of the house. So does Geforce Now. Electricity cost for a running PC isn't that high imo but it's a fair point. That said, *easily* mitigated by having countless sales options for the games I buy whereas you'd be stuck with whatever pricing Stadia offers you. You wouldn't have been able to play The Outer Worlds on release for $1 (for example).

 

[ImaLawy3r]

PS4 Launch titles:

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• Battlefield 4
• Blacklight: Retribution
• Call of Duty: Ghosts
• DC Universe Online
• DriveClub
• FIFA 14
• Just Dance 2014
• Killzone Shadow Fall
• Knack
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes
• Madden NFL 25
• Minecraft
• NBA 2K14
• NBA Live 14
• Need for Speed: Rivals
• The PlayRoom
• Resogun
• Skylanders: Swap Force
• Tiny Brains
• Warframe
• War Thunder
• Watch Dogs

Xbox One Launch Titles:

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• Battlefield 4
• Call of Duty: Ghosts
• Crimson Dragon
• Dead Rising 3
• FIFA 14
• Fighter Within
• Forza Motorsport 5
• Just Dance 2014
• Killer Instinct
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes
• LocoCycle
• Madeen NFL 25
• NBA 2K14
• NBA Live 14
• Need for Speed: Rivals
• Peggle 2
• Powerstar Golf
• Ryse: Son of Rome
• Skylanders: Swap Force
• Watch Dogs
• Zoo Tycoon
• Zumba Fitness: World Party

 

[criteriondog]

Yea that's lot cheaper than upgrading a PC or buying a next gen console

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You can likely buy a PS5 or Xbox next gen for around $500 and get a library of new games at launch and know that it will be supported by all major gaming studios.

I'd say that's better than spending $130 in a service that requires a monthly sub for 4K HDR, that hasn't proven itself, doesn't even have Activision or EA as supported publishers or any noteworthy games coming at launch, let alone a killer exclusive. Let alone streaming and Google killing products that don't take off.

I'd say Stadia is a risk. Hopefully the full launch in 2020 will be better.

 

[Irrotational]

Oh boy. I've been hoping to see Stadia be successful, but this is pathetic. What a bad way to launch your system. It needed some killer titles to make a splash.

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It's NOT a system...it's a storefront.

Stadia (if they stick with it) will appear next to every gaming video on YouTube. That's billions of hours of eyeballs staring at a "play now" button.

I know lots of things about the launch are bad....but lots of people keep comparing it to a system launch when it's not.

It's closer to the launch of epic game store and they have bought scloosies because they are taking on a deeply entrenched eco system....

Everyone is already a stadia user, they just don't know it yet.

 

[BlueManifest]

Anyone who knows enough about gaming to know how much a decent gaming PC costs or can't afford a console is very unlikely to be sitting around waiting for this kind of service. The market you're talking about sounds incredibly niche

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Well I'm going to save a ton next gen by not upgrading my pc

 

[Deleted member 22002]

Google's shareholders must be happy than not a single cent above the bare minimum was wasted on this project.

 

[Velocity:Design:Comfort]

They can't give them say any other Assassins Creed or Ubi open world game like FC5, or throw them a bone with the full Destiny 2 up to date package? I thought they are investing a lot of money into this.

 

[Mantorok]

I still have no idea who this is for. It's a pretty mediocre lineup.

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It's for people who really like gaming but don't want to buy a console or a PC, ya know, them......people....ugh I have no idea.

 

[III-V]

Stadia has got to pick it up a bit here. I'm glad I wanted to play more D2 cause there isn't anything else for me.

 

[ghostcrew]

PS4 Launch titles:

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• Battlefield 4
• Blacklight: Retribution
• Call of Duty: Ghosts
• DC Universe Online
• DriveClub
• FIFA 14
• Just Dance 2014
• Killzone Shadow Fall
• Knack
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes
• Madden NFL 25
• Minecraft
• NBA 2K14
• NBA Live 14
• Need for Speed: Rivals
• The PlayRoom
• Resogun
• Skylanders: Swap Force
• Tiny Brains
• Warframe
• War Thunder
• Watch Dogs

Xbox One Launch Titles:

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• Battlefield 4
• Call of Duty: Ghosts
• Crimson Dragon
• Dead Rising 3
• FIFA 14
• Fighter Within
• Forza Motorsport 5
• Just Dance 2014
• Killer Instinct
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes
• LocoCycle
• Madeen NFL 25
• NBA 2K14
• NBA Live 14
• Need for Speed: Rivals
• Peggle 2
• Powerstar Golf
• Ryse: Son of Rome
• Skylanders: Swap Force
• Watch Dogs
• Zoo Tycoon
• Zumba Fitness: World Party

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I don't know what Watch Dogs and Driveclub are doing in those lists. They both came out in 2014. Watch Dogs six months after launch and Driveclub a year after launch.

 

[mztik]

You can go through all the GDC talks from March. Their "dev kit" are development instances in the cloud. They can also build in house developers nodes.

It's not just a PC, they have specific hardware allotments for each instance that they're allowing devs to tap into.

Ubisoft themselves have had to add an additional compiler target to be able to get games running on the platform, it's talked about in the first link below.

https://www.stadia.dev/intl/en/blog...e:assassin-s-creed-odyssey-on-project-stream/

https://www.stadia.dev/intl/en/blog/gdc-2019-session:a-guide-to-developing-on-stadia/

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Thanks for the links!

 

[Deleted member 30681]

You can likely buy a PS5 or Xbox next gen for around $500 and get a library of new games at launch and know that it will be supported by all major gaming studios.

I'd say that's better than spending $130 in a service that requires a monthly sub for 4K HDR, that hasn't proven itself, doesn't even have Activision or EA as supported publishers or any noteworthy games coming at launch, let alone a killer exclusive. Let alone streaming and Google killing products that don't take off.

I'd say Stadia is a risk. Hopefully the full launch in 2020 will be better.

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I mean, for now this is true, but we all know it won't be in 3 months. The subscription isn't going anywhere even when Stadia Base launches next year, but it certainly won't be a requirement past that point.

 

[TheZynster]

As I've said before, I would get this day one if Destiny 2 shared its player base with the PC version.

But it doesn't. It's going to be a fucking wasteland.

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can't wait for the tweet for the first raid group completion..........i could see folks getting this just to say they got stadia world firsts lol

 

[Ryo]

They really should have been developing titles that leveraged their cloud tech in house.

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Google have set up their own studios for making games, I imagine they are a while off at the moment.

 

[Einbroch]

My God. It's worse than I thought.

 

[Ascenion]

Wow look at all those exclus....wait. Jesus Google at least try.

 

[ZeoVGM]

can't wait for the tweet for the first raid group completion..........i could see folks getting this just to say they got stadia world firsts lol

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I'm so curious to see how this works out. I have absolutely zero faith in Stadia succeeding.

 

[unfashionable]

So how are they pricing tomb raider? I mean they have all 3 games of the trilogy...$60 gets all of them?

 

[zombiejames]

....oh.

 

[Horns]

It's NOT a system...it's a storefront.

Stadia (if they stick with it) will appear next to every gaming video on YouTube. That's billions of hours of eyeballs staring at a "play now" button.

I know lots of things about the launch are bad....but lots of people keep comparing it to a system launch when it's not.

It's closer to the launch of epic game store and they have bought scloosies because they are taking on a deeply entrenched eco system....

Everyone is already a stadia user, they just don't know it yet.

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That makes sense and I don't disagree. It still needed more games at launch regardless of what we want to call it.

 

[BlueManifest]

You can likely buy a PS5 or Xbox next gen for around $500 and get a library of new games at launch and know that it will be supported by all major gaming studios.

I'd say that's better than spending $130 in a service that requires a monthly sub for 4K HDR, that hasn't proven itself, doesn't even have Activision or EA as supported publishers or any noteworthy games coming at launch, let alone a killer exclusive. Let alone streaming and Google killing products that don't take off.

I'd say Stadia is a risk. Hopefully the full launch in 2020 will be better.

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Microsoft and Sony need to offer their own cloud services and make them similar to stadia so I don't have to buy a Xbox 2 and ps5

 

[Mantorok]

Well I'm going to save a ton next gen by not upgrading my pc

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So it's for gamers who have already spent a load on hardware and have had enough? Got it.

The proof is in the pudding with this, but even if they pull it off technically without too many hitches, I think the slice of the gaming market is going to be so small it's going to be practically DOA, particuarly with a laughable line-up like this. I think the majority of gamers will show some interest, then realise it's not really a big enough game changer, the rest is what will be left, and I reckon that's going to be extremely niche.

 

[scitek]

Stadia versions aren't PC versions. If memory serves Stadia versions are Linux.

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Right, but stupid question: how is a Linux version of the game not synonymous with a PC version?

And I'm guessing Google must've funded the port, because the Definitive Edition was previously exclusive to consoles.

 

[unfashionable]

I'm looking forward to the launch just to see how good in practice the technology is, for example RDR2 at 4K is how good compared to the PC version...

Cyberpunk being comparable to PS5/scarlett would be an interesting scenario for someone without those consoles (or PC)

 

[BlueManifest]

So it's for gamers who have already spent a load on hardware and have had enough? Got it.

The proof is in the pudding with this, but even if they pull it off technically without too many hitches, I think the slice of the gaming market is going to be so small it's going to be practically DOA, particuarly with a laughable line-up like this. I think the majority of gamers will show some interest, then realise it's not really a big enough game changer, the rest is what will be left, and I reckon that's going to be extremely niche.

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I rather spend less money than more money whenever I have the opportunity
just because I've been spending money on hardware my whole life doesn't mean I have to continue now that there's other options

 

[jman2050]

Fitting that there's so many Tomb Raider games, cause in two years publishers will be raiding the tomb that is Stadia's game development studios.

I rather spend less money than more money whenever I have the opportunity
just because I've been spending money on hardware my whole life doesn't mean I have to continue now that there's other options

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The old adage applies:

You get what you pay for.

 

[criteriondog]

I mean, for now this is true, but we all know it won't be in 3 months. The subscription isn't going anywhere even when Stadia Base launches next year, but it certainly won't be a requirement past that point.

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True, but the next gen consoles will do 4K HDR at 60fps with no monthly subscription. Stadia base is 1080p (no sub), so it's missing 4K HDR.

 

[bsigg]

Thanks for the links!

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No problem, specifically with Ubisoft's experience so far:

(this should auto play from where they talk about how it compares to a PC and console)

 

[Lucifonz]

Thumper? Fuuuuck that lag had better be non-existent.

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Negative latency - maybe it'll press the buttons before you do!

 

[Mantorok]

I rather spend less money than more money whenever I have the opportunity
just because I've been spending money on hardware my whole life doesn't mean I have to continue now that there's other options

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Can't disagree with that, I'm interested to see what the initial impressions are, and would like to try it myself as I have above the recommended internet speeds.

 

[thebishop]

I'm pretty annoyed that Metro Exodus and Borderlands 3 aren't making launch. Those are the games I expected to play.

Also WTF at no DOOM 2016? I wasn't planning to buy it, but presumably that port is ready since they've been showing it to ppl for years.