Here's what we hear about Google's plans for gaming

Tomorrow, tech giant Google will unveil its new projects to enter the world of video games. What we hear suggests that the main focus is not on a console, as has been speculated, but rather on a streaming platform with all kinds of gadgets. And a new sophisticated controller that you can use to play it.

Google's investment in streaming is no secret. Last fall, the company's Project Stream Beta enabled users with high-speed Internet connections to play Assassin's Creed Odyssey in a Chrome tab. Rather than locally processing the game's graphics using a high-end PC or game console, Project Stream used it on Google's servers, allowing users to play the game by downloading data on the fly. This is not a new technology, but previous attempts have failed mainly because of latency issues, a problem that Google's makers think they can solve through the data centers they have around the world.

The call, of course, is to be able to play high-end games without having to spend hundreds of dollars for gaming equipment, which Google hopes to reach hundreds of millions of people rather than tens of millions of dollars. people who currently own a video. game consoles.

Rumors that circulate suggest that this streaming platform will be the main axis of Google and that it wants it to be readable on any type of hardware: PC, Mac, phones, TVs, etc. We've heard that you'll be able to play on a computer or Chromecast with the help of a standard Xbox controller, and that Google will also unveil its own controller with streaming features. (We do not know how the controller will work, but it may allow you to use Google's streaming platform on a TV, even if no other hardware is connected.)

We have not heard of any other announcements regarding the material.

This is the platform of the platform that is perhaps the wildest part of tomorrow's big talk, to be held at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco at 10am Pacific Time. Google's streaming platform will not only allow you to play high-end games on low-end hardware. According to several people who have been informed or who have heard about Google's projects, the platform is full of ambitious ideas.

A scenario that was described to us by three different people (each of whom heard about it directly or directly from Google) might look like this: You watch your favorite Twitch streamer play a game and you think it well. You look nice, so you buy it, and if the developers of the game have switched this feature, you can download a backup file that will get you started where your streamer was playing. Or maybe it's a multiplayer game, and you can buy the game and immediately go to a match with the streamer, if the developers allow it and if the streamer is stopped.

Sounds wild, does not it? We will have to wait to see if everything is going well, but that's what the game developers have to say about the unveiling of the Google platform. The main selling point is the removal of traditional barriers such as disks and loading screens, which could be a big part of Google's presentation tomorrow.

The integration of YouTube, as we reported last year, is another of these bells and / or whistles. We heard a whole host of possibilities, including ads that allow you to buy games directly and, more interestingly, a feature that lets you know where you are in a game and automatically loads the right place in a YouTube procedure. if: you want some help.

We also know that Google funds its own video games and that the company poachs developers and leaders from all walks of the video game world. Phil Harrison, formerly of PlayStation and Xbox, runs the Google Yeti unit, and last week, games producer Jade Raymond announced that she was joining the company. We've also heard that Google has spent the past few years meeting with major publishers and developers around the world, and it's safe to wait for some of them to come tomorrow.

We do not know exactly which games we will see during the Google Speech, what other elements could be revealed here and what other features the streaming platform may have. We will have the complete picture at 10am tomorrow morning.