After Google fell behind with Stadia, YouTube became the target of the company’s video game ambitions. Video games that can be played locally may soon appear on the video sharing platform.
the Wall Street Journal reports According to Google, YouTube has been flagged as a potential video game platform. The video-sharing service under the umbrella of the giant company is very popular among users who consume video game content, so it allows itself to offer instant games to video viewers directly on Google’s browser or mobile app interface.
The Wall Street Journal reports that an email has been circulating among Google employees in the past few days, stating that internal testing of the software is already in full swing, and several employees have already received invitations to participate. At the moment only one game, Stack Bounce, which is clearly aimed at casual gamers, is available within the beta framework, but that could, by definition, cover many other games (even licensed from third party developers) if the Playables project It really takes off.
So it’s clear that YouTube Gaming isn’t meant to fill the void left by Stadia — rather, it’s a program comparable to Netflix’s video game initiative.
