With the release of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the game's developer Ubisoft had the honor of joining Google's newest service technology, called Project Stream. Now in testing, it is a streaming service that will make it possible to play games through the Google Chrome browser. To give an idea of its impact, Google's investment in this area, despite coming late, is so important that Ubisoft's shares rose by around 3.5% when the partnership was announced.
"The fact that Google chose Ubisoft and chose the next Assassin's Creed game is a major endorsement of Ubisoft's technology efforts and of its flagship franchise in our view," said Neil Campling, an analyst at the foreign bank and financial group Mirabaud Securities.
Ubisoft and Google announced the project recently, and it is initially only a test so that Google can eventually launch the service more effectively and without bugs. Test slots are very limited, but those who register and are accepted will have access for an unspecified period to Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which has been available for consoles and PC since the 5th.
The registration requirements rule out most Brazilians for now: applicants must live in the United States, be at least 17 years old, have a home internet connection of at least 25 Mb, be able to play with a controller or keyboard and mouse, and use Google Chrome. If you meet all the requirements to become a test user, click here.
Assassin's Creed Origins: the release before "Odyssey."
According to Google, the idea is for the service to work in the same way as existing movie and music streaming services, such as Netflix and Spotify. In an official post, the company emphasizes how important this kind of technology has become to society by making multimedia works easier to access, offering an extensive library of options, and even reducing illegal downloads around the world.
[The streaming service has been] making multimedia works easier to access, offering an extensive library of options, and even reducing illegal downloads around the world.
The company continues the post by saying that it has been a major challenge to work on a streaming service capable of running games for consumers in real time. With a movie, television, or music service, consumers do not mind waiting a while, even if only briefly, to enjoy an audiovisual product. The same does not apply to games, where the response time between controls and the screen is extremely important, along with graphical performance and other factors.
Google currently appears to have considerable interest in the game market and is working hard to establish itself in the industry. Project Stream arrives to compete with similar services such as PlayStation Now and Xbox Game Pass. Below, you can watch a video posted on Google's official YouTube channel showing footage of Assassin's Creed Odyssey running at 1080p and 60fps through Project Stream. Google's new technology also aims to succeed because many consumers do not own a high-end computer; since the games run via streaming, that requirement becomes less demanding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=sE53eSbzxoU
Assassin's Creed Odyssey introduces us for the first time to the story of the assassins Alexios and Kassandra in Ancient Rome and is available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
