Stadia is available in North America (plus Puerto Rico and Alaska, but not Hawaii or Guam) and selected countries in Western Europe and Scandinavia, including the UK. Limited time discount offers, percent varies Hardware permitting, up to 4K/60p HDR and 5.1 surround In mid-January 2020, Verizon announced it would be bundling Stadia Premiere Edition with new subscriptions to its top-end Fios Gigabit broadband plan beginning Jan. That has since evolved into the $129 (£119) Premiere Edition, which comes with a white Stadia controller, Chromecast Ultra and three months of the Pro subscription.
Google opened up the service to everyone on April 8, and those who sign up will receive two free months of Stadia Pro, which comes with nine free games in April including GRID, Destiny 2: The Collection, and Thumper.Īt launch the company offered - and has since discontinued - a Founder's Edition, which included a limited-edition blue controller, a Chromecast Ultra streaming device, three months of Stadia Pro, Bungie's full Destiny 2 experience, first dibs on a username and a buddy pass that gave a friend three months to try Stadia Pro. Stadia is now free for anyone with a Gmail account. That partially offsets the advantage of its extensive network of data centers. And Google is a latecomer to cloud gaming, so it's still at the working-out-the-basic-kinks stage while others have leveled up on to refining the experience. That's common with the incremental rollouts of these services.įor instance, Stadia only works over Wi-Fi now network connection speed and quality are so important for a decent cloud gaming experience that all the companies that offer the option to play non-native mobile games over cellular networks are being very cautious. But while those all may eventually come to fruition, at the moment it's quite a pared-down version of the company's vision. When Google initially announced Stadia at GDC 2019, it hyped a lot of its grand ambitions, such as Crowd Play and State Share.