Google Stadia received’t provide third-party exclusives

Third-party games that includes on Google’s new streaming service won’t be unique to the brand new platform. In an interview with PCGamesN at GDC, the corporate’s vice chairman, Phil Harrison, made clear that Stadia received’t be following the precedent set by the Epic Games retailer.

Harrison mentioned that “we don’t require that games be exclusive to our platform, so some games will appear on multiple platforms, as is expected.” That is, in fact, in direct distinction with the opposite new child on the block – Epic has claimed a set of timed exclusives in latest months, together with Metro Exodus, The Division 2, and the upcoming launch of The Outer Worlds.

Harrison makes clear, nevertheless, that games that Google develops itself received’t be out there elsewhere after launch, saying that “the games we build ourselves with Stadia Games and Entertainment will only be available on our platform.” On PC, at the least, that’s no nice shock – excluding Ubisoft, there are few main publishers in possession of a launcher who’re sharing their games with different distributors.

At the second, we don’t actually know what games Google is planning to carry to Stadia. A handful of teasers forward of the corporate’s keynote speech provided a couple of cryptic clues suggesting partnerships with Bethesda, Rockstar, and EA, however we’re not more likely to study extra in regards to the preliminary line-up till the summer time.

We do, nevertheless, know that Ubisoft has already labored with Google – due to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s involvement with Project Stream. On high of that, Assassin’s Creed sequence creator Jade Raymond took to the stage to announce that she would be heading up Google’s new first-party games studio. Again, we don’t know what Raymond and her workforce are engaged on, however hopefully we’ll study extra at E3.

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