Google Will be Going Against PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo

As if there was nothing else we'd believe Google could take over, the massive tech/entertainment/everything else under the sun has announced more information on how they are planning to jump into the Gaming industry with their own console.

Google's gaming platform, unlike their soon to be competitors, is a streaming service. What that means is that instead of buying games over the counter or downloading them from the PlayStation Store, you'll be able to play them over the internet and not have to lose that precious storage space on your console.

The company has been making moves in the last year towards this goal, such as hiring Phil Harrison, who was an influential player in helping Sony develop the PlayStation and Microsoft on the Xbox. Now industry experts believe that it's likely Google will soon announce their next step towards making their gaming division a reality.

Venturebeat journalist, Dean Takahashi had this to say:

"I think that it’s a good time to start speculating about what’s coming in the future, and a number of people I know in the game industry are already doing that. Harrison is the sort of figure who could marshal Google’s resources and enable it to enter the game console business. I don’t know if that is happening, but that would be a delightful rumor to try to confirm. I interviewed Harrison last year at the Gamelab event in Spain. Since he was on the sidelines of the console wars, he wasn’t shy about sharing his opinions on what was happening in the competition among the major game platform companies.

“When I asked him about the broader game platform companies — like Amazon, Google, and Apple — Harrison said, 'I’m excited about the future. I’m enormously bullish about the future of games, mainly because now we don’t have to explain what this is anymore. There’s an understanding of games among the wider population'

While it's great to hear that these larger companies could be interested in developing their own games, there does come the issue with ones that are stream only types. To be able to stream a game, a player needs to have a "good" connection to the internet--any drop could lead to the game performing at a lower quality or just not working at all. There's also the current issue within the gaming industry that the companies behind the games aren't the best of friends and with a company the size of Google, they could be seen as a threat looming over the horizon.

SOURCES:

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/gaming/680845/Google-Yeti-PlayStation-Xbox-One-Nintendo-Switch-games-console

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