Stadia is a new video game platform, delivering instant access to your favorite games on any type of screen-whether it's a TV, laptop, desktop, tablet or mobile phone. Our goal is to make those games available in resolutions up to 4K and 60 frames per second with HDR and surround sound. We'll be launching later this year in select countries including the U.S., Canada, U.K. and much of Europe.
To build Stadia, we've thought deeply about what it means to be a gamer and worked to converge two distinct worlds: people who play video games and people who love watching them. Stadia will lift restrictions on the games we create and play-and the communities who enjoy them.
Advanced game streaming
Using our globally connected network of Google data centers, Stadia will free players from the limitations of traditional consoles and PCs.
When players use Stadia, they'll be able to access their games at all times, and on virtually any screen. And developers will have access to nearly unlimited resources to create the games they've always dreamed of. It's a powerful hardware stack combining server class GPU, CPU, memory and storage, and with the power of Google's data center infrastructure, Stadia can evolve as quickly as the imagination of game creators.
Data centers make Stadia possible, but what sets the system apart is how it works with other Google services. In a world where there are more than 200 million people watching game-related content daily on YouTube, Stadia makes many of those games playable with the press of a button. If you watch one of your favorite creators playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey, simply click the "play now" button.Seconds later, you'll be running around ancient Greece in your own game/on your own adventure-no downloads, no updates, no patches and no installs.
