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Google’s NEW games console won’t rival PlayStation, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch - here's why
GOOGLE plans to soon enter the console market - but can it really compete with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo?





Google’s NEW games console won’t rival PlayStation, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch - here's whyDS

Google's rumoured new videogames console is apparently in the works, and it could shake up the console industry in a big way.

Dubbed the Google 'Yeti', the games console would work by streaming games from a server, so you will buy games to instantly stream them over the internet rather than have to download the huge files before play.


It will allow gamers to access, presumably, a wide range of hit titles within a matter of seconds as you’ll be playing them via a web connection on a Google server rather than physically having to download the title to your machine.

There are fears that this console will rival the likes of the Nintendo Switch, the PS4 and the Xbox One, but if history repeats itself, the 'big three' may not have that much to worry about.

Games streaming has traditionally been a fairly doomed endeavour, with the likes of services like Ouya, OnLive and PS Now never really taking off.

Google will have to do something very different indeed if it wants to penetrate the streaming games market.


The suggestion that Google's new device may not catch on comes from the limited success of the Nvidia Shield.

The Shield markets itself as "The best 4K HDR streaming media player with built-in Google Cast and voice search" which allows you to "Play Android games. Stream PC games. Listen to music" and more.

So if Google is aiming to release a console where all the games would be streamed (similar to the way the TV add-on Chromecast works, but for games), it may want to look at the Nvidia Shield and figure out why that hasn't captured mainstream imaginations.

The NVIDIA Shield has been out for over a year now, but very few people have heard of it, and the library of games it supports (all on Android) doesn't have the pull of a Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo-exclusive title.

So if Google is planning on releasing the 'Yeti' and wants a lion's share of the gaming market, it's going to either have to offer something other than simply streaming games, and it's also going to have to feature a proper killer app.


Google raised eyebrows last month after hiring games industry veteran Phil Harrison.

He's taking up the role of vice president and general manager at the internet beast's California headquarters.

Harrison is best known for a 15-year tenure as head of Sony's network of game studios. He was vital to the development of the PlayStation console brand.

In addition, harrison also spent three years as a senior executive at Microsoft's Xbox team.

So he knows more than a bit about gaming and the habits of console players.

Harrison recently announced on Twitter: “Excited to be able to share that today I’ve started a new role as Vice President and GM of Google - and relocating (back) to California."

And industry experts believe that Google is secretly planning to unveil a new gaming division to rival Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo.



Highly respected tech journalist Dean Takahashi, of Venturebeat, said:

"I think that it’s a good time to start speculating about what’s coming in the future, and a number of people I know in the game industry are already doing that.

"Harrison is the sort of figure who could marshal Google’s resources and enable it to enter the game console business.

"I don’t know if that is happening, but that would be a delightful rumor to try to confirm.

"I interviewed Harrison last year at the Gamelab event in Spain. Since he was on the sidelines of the console wars, he wasn’t shy about sharing his opinions on what was happening in the competition among the major game platform companies.

“When I asked him about the broader game platform companies — like Amazon, Google, and Apple — Harrison said, 'I’m excited about the future. I’m enormously bullish about the future of games, mainly because now we don’t have to explain what this is anymore. There’s an understanding of games among the wider population

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