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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > itt we have the high score on the youtube tetris leaderboard
 
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Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


 https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/26/youtube-reportedly-experimenting-with-online-games/amp/

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Nearly six months after Google officially shut down its cloud gaming service Stadia, it appears the company may be launching a similar product through YouTube. The Google-owned video-sharing platform is reportedly testing an online game offering that could give users the ability to play games via the YouTube website on desktop or the YouTube app via iOS and Android devices.

As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the offering would be called “Playables” and would feature arcade-style games like Stack Bounce, where players use a bouncing ball to smash through layers of bricks.

In a statement provided to TechCrunch, a company spokesman declined to confirm the experiment but said, “Gaming has long been a focus at YouTube. We’re always experimenting with new features but have nothing to announce right now.”

When Google initially announced in a blog post that Stadia would shut down, the company also hinted that the underlying technology that powers the gaming service could be applied across “other parts of Google like YouTube, Google Play, and our Augmented Reality (AR) efforts,” the company wrote in September.

If YouTube were to move forward with this new gaming initiative, it’s our guess that Google would reuse the code it developed for Stadia.

Stadia launched in 2019 and let users play games directly from the cloud rather than downloading games to a console. It also had a feature on YouTube called Crowd Choice, where creators could livestream a game they’re playing on Stadia and let viewers answer polls in the chat section. However, the service struggled to reach enough players and shut down in January of this year.
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matti
Mar 31, 2019

 lol but also barf

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Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.

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In a statement provided to TechCrunch, a company spokesman declined to confirm the experiment but said, “Gaming has long been a focus at YouTube. We’re always experimenting with new features but have nothing to announce right now.”

does this read like someone leaked it to anyone else or just me

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

matti posted:

lol but also barf

lobarf?

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Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Pollyanna posted:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/26/youtube-reportedly-experimenting-with-online-games/amp/

terrible browser games would probably turn out better for them than having another go at stadia, especially if they try to reuse the old platform.

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matti
Mar 31, 2019

echinopsis posted:

lobarf?

innovative, playful... i like it

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Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
 youtube gaming featuring interactive browser games between a streamer and chat is not a terrible idea at all, but probably not the first thing youtube should be focusing on when trying to draw users from twitch

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Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


 the audience that regularly watches streamers play apex valorant and minecraft and the audience that would actually give terrible interactive browser games the time of day have basically no overlap whatsoever

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Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


 i am astounded that youtube is going to try and get the farm on lovely Jackbox

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

 youtube newgrounds

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Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Pollyanna posted:

the audience that regularly watches streamers play apex valorant and minecraft and the audience that would actually give terrible interactive browser games the time of day have basically no overlap whatsoever

twitch is a ton more than those people tho. fully integrated knockoff jackbox would be great for certain streamers especially if you pitch it as a members/subs only thing

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