What's up guys Chigz here from Chigz Tech Reviews.
Today I put my hands on the brand new Google Stadia Founders Edition.
So it's finally arrived and this is supposed to be the future of game streaming and
I do look forward to testing this out for myself so first of all let's get this
unboxed so this is the Founders Edition and it does say that on the side
So here we go....
This is everything you get in the Stadia Founders Edition so first of all we've got this envelope which contains
your paperwork the promise of creating one place for all the ways we play is
long-held dream today we are proud to see that dream start to become a reality
a community of players is the core of stadia thank you for being the first to
gather around I'm actually quite excited about stadia so what they're said there
is absolutely right and I can't wait to see how it's all gonna work and you also
get a quick start guide and some stadia stickers you're also getting a USB C 2
USB a cable a USB power brick to go with that and the voltage is 5 volt 1.5 a so
you are going to use this charger cable and this power brick to actually charge
the game controller now you're also getting a chromecast ultra so this is
the 4k version of the chromecast it has a single HDMI cable which is magnetic so
it clips onto the back when not in use you've also got a micro USB port at the
bottom for power and here you have a power adapter micro USB as especially
for the chromecast but you'll notice on the side there is actually an Ethernet
port so you can have this on a wired network giving you your maximum internet
speed and also more stability last but certainly not least is the game
controller itself so here it is guys in my hands so you have dual joysticks
stadia button in the middle d-pad you've got four buttons over here and I can't
guess what they do and if I do guess I'm probably going to guess incorrectly so
we'll find out what they do in a bit you've got your usual a B and XY buttons
with your four triggers at the top USB type-c port for charging and a headphone
jack at the bottom it's important that the controller is comfortable and it
does feel comfortable to me now the controller does have a familiar name
out it does feel very nice in the hands and time will tell how good it really is
when we actually start playing now this is predominantly a game streaming
service you can currently buy the stadia premier edition for one one night and
you'll get exactly the same things you can see on the table but the controller
won't be this navy blue color you will get a white controller now I did receive
my access code Azure by email all I had to do is download the stadia app enter
the code and that gave me access to the stadia game streaming service and to get
you started you get two free games to enjoy which are destiny - the collection
and Samurai Shodown you also get access to the stadia store
where you can download and purchase more games so NBA 2k 24 20 pounds Mortal
Kombat 11 Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2750 that's tempting me I might buy that
you've got Metro Final Fantasy Tomb Raider is only 8 pounds and I've got
that game or nearly all platforms so I don't think I'll be buying that you can
also pick up Red Dead Redemption full price not on offer and so on so forth at
this stage I'm not sure if we're going to be getting games free of charge every
month I doubt they're going to be able to do that just like PlayStation Plus if
they do decide to give us free monthly games and that would definitely make
this package even more attractive so right now I have three months of stadium
pro included stadium pro is a subscription service which will allow
you to stream up to 4k HDR I believe a free service is going to be coming
sometime next year but at the moment it's $8.99 a month for the pro service
and once three months are up I have the option to continue now here is a
bandwidth chart to show you what resolution you can expect based on your
internet speed I have 60 megabits per second broadband connection so
technically I should be getting 4k HDR at 60 frames per second now there are a
few ways you can use this product you can connect the chromecast directly to
any monitor or television and then you can play your games using the game
controller another way to play is directly on your laptop or PC now the
Vantage of playing on your PC or laptop is that you can use other game
controllers such as Xbox Playstation 4 Nintendo switch or even a keyboard and
mouse finally if you have a Google pixel phone you can connect the stadia
controller directly to the pixel phone and play games directly on your phone so
stating it does appear to be quite a versatile system giving you many options
to play so without any further ado let's jump straight into some gameplay action
I'm going to hook all of this up to my 4k TV in the living room and we are
going to find out exactly what stadia is all about I'll be right back
so the game controller is actually connecting to your Wi-Fi network which
means the game controller is connected to the cloud so that's quite interesting
Wow here is what stadia looks like on the main screen and one thing I want to
confirm is you do not need the stadia app open on your phone at all so I've
actually closed the stadia app on my phone everything is working directly on
the chromecast so I've got two games I can play right now Samurai Shodown or
destiny 2
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now that was actually quite impressive it was smooth gameplay audio sounded
great I quickly want to show you what these buttons do so the dot vine when
you press it nothing happens you keep it pressed nothing happens the button over
here if you press that one again nothing happens if you click on this button
which looks like the Google Voice button it says Google assistant is coming soon
on Stadium so that is a Google Voice button and over here you've got a
screenshot button so when you press that it will capture a screenshot okay if you
click on the stadia button they will actually show you your profile if you
keep the stadia button pressed for about two seconds you will get an option to
resume exit or shutdown stadia now let's go ahead and play some destiny to
so now I'm going to play the stadium on my macbook pro now all we do is open up
the Chrome browser and go to stadia calm so you actually have to link the
controller up by a USB in order to play so we're going to continue playing
destiny to
and if you have a google pixel lying around you can also play directly on the
smartphone but you do have to kill it the controller up with the USB cable now
there might be a way to play wirelessly and if I do figure that out I will let
you guys know
so there you have it guys that was my first look overview of the Google stadia
my initial opinion of this product is actually very good I was able to play
destined me to on the chromecast ultra for many hours and I noticed hardly any
latency it was super smooth 4k HDR at 60fps even my TV detected the 4k HDR the
game looked and played beautifully now the game controller was indeed very
comfortable and enjoyable and even after a few hours of gaming I had no problems
with my wrist with my hands it felt super smooth and super comfortable I
think it's a cross between a PlayStation and Xbox controller but it has a similar
layout to the PlayStation 4 controller now I love the versatility of being able
to play on any system from TV monitor pixel smartphones or even your laptop or
PC and I was of course using this on my macbook pro now if we talk about
performance the best performance actually came from the chromecast ultra
there was literally no latency issues no lag or stuttering of any kind it felt
like I was playing on a game console and not streaming stadia also plays very
well on both laptop PCs and smartphones although I did experience a one-second
stutter once or twice during gameplay I still had no issues enjoying the game
overall even at this early stage I think stadia is an absolute winner now
with that being said I think the pricing needs to be rethought you can buy the
founder's package or the current premium package for one-one-nine and then you
get three months pro membership the pro membership will give you access to the
4k HDR gaming service and you are promised free games regularly so they
are not committing themselves by saying monthly regularly could mean every few
months so I personally think that 12 months of membership should have been
provided as standard to the founders and the premier packages to get more people
interested and to provide a bit more value to the gamer apart from that the
actual product is incredible now I am a casual gamer I play games a few times
every week but if I could I would play a lot more
as I really do enjoy gaming now the stadia is truly a breakthrough
I am already using PlayStation now and Nvidia's ge force on the shield and I
can tell you right now stadia does a much better job of providing you with a
stutter free game streaming experience in fact I'm going to say stadia is the
best game streaming service I have ever used so far it means you don't have to
use a super broadband connection you can stream 4k HDR with only 35 megabits per
second and 1080p gaming with only 20 megabits per second now those of you out
there who do not have a fiber connection yet can still enjoy super smooth 720p
gaming which requires only 10 megabits per second now I bought the founders
package myself as soon as it was announced so this is not a sponsored
video this is my honest opinion I am a fan of gaming and I can tell you right
now this is something special I expect stadia to get even better than
he is right now with brand new features more game availability and hopefully
they also bring along some value to the table and with that being said I will
leave the links in the description so you guys can check this product out
meanwhile thank you so much for watching and I hope you won't have a brilliant
day I'll see you guys in the next one
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