Google is working on a console and game streaming service

By Nick Pino

There’s a very good chance that this time next year you’ll be playing games on Google’s new game streaming service – code-named ‘Yeti’ – that’s currently in development. You might even be playing it on a new Made by Google game console, too.

The existence of both the game streaming service and the secretive new Made by Google game console were first unearthed by The Information with help from their sources.

According to those sources, the game streaming service will be subscription-funded – similar in that respect to GeForce Now or PlayStation Now – as well as cloud-based. That means it will run an instance of the game on a Google-operated server and then transmit the data to your home console (again, similar to GeForce Now or PlayStation Now). This is different to Microsoft’s Xbox Games Pass approach, which allows you to download in full any of the games on the service.

More than just a service

The other interesting part of the report is that it claims Google is developing a console of its own. It would be part of the Made by Google program, which currently includes the Google Home smart speaker, Google Pixel …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming