I believe that we are swiftly approaching a dramatic shift in how we can play the latest video games. This discovery comes less than a week prior to Google's GDC keynote.
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Nintendo Switch controller support added to Google Chrome
- Thread starter Justin Iacobellis
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The implications are...actually I don't know what the implications are.
Someone help me understand this.
Someone help me understand this.
This is getting all kinds of weird. So much info, so little time to wait. OK GOOGLE, WHAT IS IN THE BOX?!
The Project Stream beta worked directly through Google Chrome. This update suggests that the final service will too. That would mean you can play Assassin's Creed Odyssey on any device with the Chrome browser; which is pretty cool.
Yeah, this isn't really like, anything honestly. It's just them adding some code to recognize the Switch controller's ID and map some buttons.
switch games on google console of course ;p
it means nothing.
Yeah, some posters are jumping the gun here a bit. They're just supporting all third party controllers for Project Stream.
It means they're allowing the streaming service at least to recognize all controllers you might have on hand so you can jump in without having to buy any new hardware.
Nintendo teaming up with Google was always more likely than them teaming with MS.
I don't get this. Is Sony teaming up with Valve because they added Dualshock support to Steam?
Seems this is just support for the Gamepad API that Microsoft Edge and Firefox also support. So possibly doesn't mean anything too drastic.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gamepad_API
The draft for the spec has an employee from Sony listed for example and dates back to 2015:
https://w3c.github.io/gamepad/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gamepad_API
The draft for the spec has an employee from Sony listed for example and dates back to 2015:
https://w3c.github.io/gamepad/
Yup. We've already got support for the Wii U Pro, 360, DualShock 3 & 4 and the Xbox One controllers.
OP should also mention that Chrome is also getting Joy Con support too.
I think those chromium projects can be made for anyone. There're projects with several gamepads.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2&q=component:Blink>GamepadAPI
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2&q=component:Blink>GamepadAPI
I'm not sure controller support is a "dramatic shift in the way we play games" but it's still nice to see.
It's open source, so yeah. There is also references to both Xbox and DualShock there, so this doesn't necessary mean anything.
The controller is using Direct Input so it isn't that big of a thing for Nintendo to do on their end as it was with steam support.
Not quite as good as running it locally if you have a good rig obviously, but pretty damn good. Only negative was that it seemed to consume a pretty decent amount of data if you have caps (like me ;-;)
Yeah I can imagine
Few years ago I would have noped out of this but with fiber and no cap , I am interested lol
It does mean something drastic - it means Chromium supports a stable, proper implementation so it can be used as a front-end for Google's streaming service.