I’m NOT Supposed to Have This - Stadia Dev Kit

A game developer for Google Stadia reached out and offered us a Stadia Dev Node! What secrets does it hold inside, how do you develop games for a dedicated cloud service, and what were they possible doing with this Radeon Pro V320 graphics card?

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:50 Game Dev
3:22 What's in the Box
5:35 How is it useful
7:00 The Portal
8:45 RIP Stadia
10:20 Business as Usual
12:20 Conclusion

[babblebam]

These dev kits are so rare, that every youtuber has them at once.

[tphwoie]

One thing that still interests me: Stadia had HDR working on linux, I'd love to see the drivers/software opensourced.

[Churchgrimm]

Man, this looks like such promising technology! Can't wait to see what Google does with it for many years to come.

[csdiabo]

I'm a game developer and this video was really accurate on the process of making games! As well as being super fascinating as I haven't dealt with anything Stadia related but it sounds like a nightmare to use...

[xliquidflames]

I'm sad this is dead. With health issues, I spend a lot of time in hospitals and doctors' offices. Stadia got me through a lot of long nights in the hospital. Even on public hospital wifi, it always ran great and I played a ton of Destiny, Doom, and Dirt. It just worked so well. Also, I can't afford a Steam Deck so $10 a month was awesome. I'm going to miss Stadia.

[ianfindley]

LTT should have a tech museum. You have so many passionate employees who have experience with past tech and likely have old tech laying around. Gaming, computers, niche products, etc. it seems like a business/project that could be successful.

[alc]

Thank you for mentioning the controller. I'm praying they issue a firmware update so it doesn't just turn into ewaste.

[IanLantz]

Steve from GN: How stupid is it that the front IO board doesn't use wires?

Linus: Front IO with no wires? Awesome!

[illustratum]

The Stadia Controller is actually one of my favorite controllers. Here's hoping they do the good thing and let us use it as a regular Bluetooth controller! I have 4 of them that I'd love to keep using.

[zexmaix]

I can't say anything bad about Stadia really. I was a founder, have great internet, and enjoyed my experiences with it. Sad that it never really caught on or saw its full potential. Crazy, but amazing, that they're providing full refunds (HW + Games) and are super consumer friendly as to the closure. I've already received my refunds on everything, and now have free controllers and Chromecasts to boot. Love it or hate it, they really didn't burn anyone in the end - just a no harm no foul experiment.

[grelymolycremp]

I honestly feel so bad for all the developers and engineers working on some of Google's projects. All that passion and love to create something, just for it to get chopped 3 years later.

[CatherineSC]

I remember a couple years ago there was a deal where you got a stadia controller and a Chromecast and the deal was like 80% off, so the whole combo was like 25 dollars. Didn't really care about the Chromecast but was looking for a controller that wasn't terrible and not 80 dollars. So I bought 4 and still have them to this day using them with emulation and steam games. Fantastic controller for 25 dollars, decent for it's normal price. And PLEASE Google, release the firmware or apply a patch so I can use the Bluetooth capabilities. I don't mind plugging them in but it would be so nice to just use them wherever.

[Phin_Again]

It’s always interesting to see dev kits that get into hands like yours.

[greylawson]

I’m a technician for a certain company with popular tech products and I serviced a guy’s phone who personally worked on the Stadia team. He told me everyone who worked on the team internally knew it wasn’t gonna last about 6 months into working on the project

[Bbq]

Dude! I didn’t know Stadia had started refunding yet. Those refunds just hit my account this week and helped save me from the loss of a client shorting me for work.

Stadia just saved Christmas!!!! Thanks LTT for the heads up. 👍

[Neoxon]

I’m pretty sure most of us expected Stadia to go under, but it still feels weird. Maybe it happened too soon relative to what’s now current-gen.

[nhkworldmoderator]

My friend was working on the development of a game that was going to be released for Stadia, and I must say, it was not bad. Did not take that long to send our builds and our game is massive. Test today a build for pc, works good, send it to stadia tomorrow and run basic startup checks. That way you reduce the incidence of big crashes that would require rebooting it.
Now what he said is: "Google shut down this crap and did not even announce it to us. We found out that it was cancelled because someone twitted. Not even our Stadia point of contact was aware when our producer called them."
I don't understand why they had to shut it down like this

[henryhiltunen]

Very interesting video! I never wondered how they would develop those games, but it gives some perspective how this tech is/was working.

As a former Stadia Pro subscriber (I still would be if they hadn't canceled this), I absolutely loved the Stadia experience till the end. Only very very rarely it got laggy and even then I could play it through with some potato resolution, but it was still very much playable.

Oh and that nice customer support is totally true, 6/5 experience for me (even without the refunding all of the purchased games). What I noticed though, is that in this last year there was less and less new AAA or "mainstream" games in the Stadia Store. But what it was worth, I really was enjoying my time (and still do) and it is so sad to see Stadia to be killed.

[unyu-cyberstorm]

I think the V320 is a server accelerator. For GPU virtualization specifically.

[lexxynubbers]

For some reason, this brings me back to the days when I was developing Sinclair Spectrum games downloaded from a Tatung Eintstein (another Zilog Z80 machine), which was a just a wooden box because it was the 14th prototype to be made.