I guess this is up to the publishers, I mean most new games (that are not even released yet on PC or console, e.g. Cyberpunk 2077) are expected to come at a specific date, but some games might also be delayed by the publisher. Cyberpunk for example was announced last year to come April 2020, but now it's delayed to September 2020.
But for existing games... no idea when they will come to Stadia, because neither Google is announcing it nor the publishers themselfes (maybe both have no idea yet). As we even don't know all of those 120 games, let's see I would say.
At some point the shop of Stadia must be bigger, otherwise they'll run out of games to give for free for Stadia Pro members. ![]()
I guess this is up to the publishers, I mean most new games (that are not even released yet on PC or console, e.g. Cyberpunk 2077) are expected to come at a specific date, but some games might also be delayed by the publisher. Cyberpunk for example was announced last year to come April 2020, but now it's delayed to September 2020.
But for existing games... no idea when they will come to Stadia, because neither Google is announcing it nor the publishers themselfes (maybe both have no idea yet). As we even don't know all of those 120 games, let's see I would say.
At some point the shop of Stadia must be bigger, otherwise they'll run out of games to give for free for Stadia Pro members. ![]()
I think the next three weeks will be the benchmark if Google can launch 120 games or if it just have been blowing smoke.
When the pro subscription is running out for most people and if there is no update or announcment on new Stadia functionality or games in the upcoming weeks i would say no.
i do not think Stadia is gonna risk releasing new games and or functionality before the platform is working 95% 100%
Google will probably try their best too keep the people already to still be subscribed,so a lack of information probably is a good indicator that things is not quite done.
I think 2020 will be a good year for Stadia!
@Kora : I'd agree on that too, however not everything is in Google's court, they are still reliant upon the publisher/developer to release the games on schedule. Since we have all seen numerous titles get delayed for one reason or another, there is nothing to think that none of these 120+ titles won't happen to get delayed either.
I don't know what the industry % is for delayed vs shipped on time for new releases but it has to be quite high based on the complexity of games these days. Of course, not all titles are new and we can expect a number of those titles to be just ports to Stadia, so they should (one would hope) be less likely to be delayed.
All in all I would be very surprised if all the tracked titles were actually released in 2020, but I hope to be surprised!
@Jenesis : Yes, it's a huge task to deliver that many titles in the time available for 2020. But until we start getting some updates from both the publishers and from the folks at Stadia all we can do currently is wait and see how things progress.
But as the original blog made clear, they are tracking more than 120 titles that are coming in 2020 and more than 10 in the first half of the year that will be unique to the Stadia platform for launch at least.
There isn't much more to that teaser yet, so I guess we will just have to be patient and see how close to the truth those statements are.