According to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Google "overpromised" what it could deliver with its Stadia game streaming technology. While Take-Two has a number of games available on the Google Stadia platform, including Red Dead Redemption 2, Zelnick hasn't been wowed by the supposed game-changing technology until now. "The launch of Stadia has been slow," he said at Bernstein's annual strategic decision conference, according to GameSpot. "I think there have been over-promises about what the technology could offer and, as a result, some consumer disappointment," he added. This is likely a reference to Google's initial claims that games would run at 4K and 60fps, as revealed shortly after many games, including Bethesda's Take's Red Dead Redemption 2-1080 and Doom Eternal, were rendered at XNUMXp and later. they escalated.
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Zelnick notes that Take-Two released three titles for Stadia at launch and will continue to support streaming services "as long as the business model makes sense." However, he expressed concern that the target audience for people who want to play video games but don't have a console isn't very large. "Every time you expand distribution, you potentially expand your audience, so we supported launching Stadia with three titles initially and will continue to support high-quality streaming services as long as the business model continues to make sense. Over time, I think streaming it will work..." "The belief that streaming was going to be transformative was based on the idea that there were a lot of people who were really interested in interactive entertainment, they really wanted to pay for it, but they just didn't want to own a console. I didn't. I didn't. I'm sure it is." Although Stadia got off to a rocky start, the cloud-based service continues to add new titles; Google says it will add more than 100 games to the Stadia library this year. The service may soon be available on many more devices as well. Though currently limited to a small handful of smartphones, including Google's new Pixel devices, recently discovered code in the latest Stadia app for Android suggests that support for devices that haven't yet been "certified" is in progress.