We have no doubt that the mobile phone is gradually becoming a a station designed to play. The power of today’s high-end processors allows us to run more realistic graphics, and if our smartphone is not realistic, we will always have the game in the cloud.
We assume they mean YouTube, as there have been rumors for a few months now that they’ll be providing video games in addition to videos. Other companies in this sector, such as Netflix, are already doing this, and as we read in The Verge, Games on YouTube have already been seen.
Stadia is passing the baton to YouTube
It may or may not have anything to do with it, but the truth is that the expected and natural death of Stadia left Google without a stronghold with which to claim a piece of the video game market. Recently, it has been dominated by Xbox, which – finally – managed to close the purchase of Activision Blizzard, and Sony, which continues its work. mobile-focused alternativessuch as the Netflix proposal.
Great to see Phaser games as YouTube Playables. Worked flawlessly, nice integration (only tested on PC) pic.twitter.com/hzuNHgWmV5
— threads.net/@photonstorming (@photonstorm) November 27, 2023
YouTube is about to try something similar with its new ‘Playables’, only for new subscribers (for now). It will now offer access to a set of online games that we can enjoy both from app for Android like from a computer.
As Droid-Life suggests, YouTube “Playables” was introduced in September on an experimental basis and is now rolling out to some users who received the notification last week. If we are part of YouTube Premium, we will soon be able to play a 37 minigames in totalwithout downloading or installing anything.
what are these games? Well, it doesn’t look like Google is going all out at the moment. We have casual titles like Brain Out, The Daily Crossword or Angry Birds Showdown that won’t stay on YouTube forever: the Premium notification indicates that they will be available until March 28, 2024.
These will appear in the ‘Playable’ section, which will have its own corner in “Explore” tab.. Experiments, as happened in this case, are common practice on the video platform and are accessible to Premium users. Currently, there are other assets, such as a feature that combines Google’s artificial intelligence with YouTube to ask it about the videos we watch.
Be that as it may, these new “playable” YouTubes certainly will don’t be attractive for gamers who usually use the latest generation consoles. However, it’s a way to follow a trend started by others like Netflix, albeit a far cry from what they tried with Stadia and Amazon is already doing with the recently launched Luna.
Through | The Verge
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