{"id":7460,"date":"2018-06-29T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=7460"},"modified":"2018-07-10T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T00:36:27","slug":"google-is-reportedly-developing-a-game-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/google-is-reportedly-developing-a-game-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is reportedly developing a game console"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to reports, Google\u2019s project Yeti could be a streaming device that breaks down the barriers between console and PC gaming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently one of the worst kept secrets running around at E3 this year was that Google was there talking to a bunch of devs about their new project.<\/p>\n

According to Kotaku who first reported the rumour, Google’s entrance into the console market is a three pronged approach.<\/p>\n

1) Some sort of streaming platform, 2) some sort of hardware, and 3) an attempt to bring game developers under the Google umbrella, whether through aggressive recruiting or even major acquisitions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By saying “streaming platform” one’s mind automatically wanders to a Netflix like approach to delivering games, similar to PlayStation Now and the ill-fated OnLive service, however it can also mean simply downloading games to your local storage and playing them there.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what it means and what approach Google take, entering the console market will require a hefty investment by parent Alphabet to give it any chance of a fight.<\/p>\n

Source: Google Is Working On A Gaming Console To Rival Xbox And Playstation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Google\u2019s project Yeti could be a streaming device that breaks down the barriers between console…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[193,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}