

While I’m partial to my Fire Stick (I got my new Fire Stick Max literally the day Google sent this one over), the UI feels more clean on Google’s counterpart.
Stadia chromecast tv#
The Chromecast with Google TV honestly might be the best streaming device on the market. Google apparently had enough of all that in 2020, and dropped the new Chromecast with Google TV as a way to break into the streaming market filled with Amazon Fire Sticks, Rokus, and other such devices. The Chromecast Ultra followed after it’s predecessors with being a casting device, and that meant overusing your phone. While the previous Ultra was a great effort to jump into the cloud space, the interface truly just didn’t work. So let’s start off talking about one of the biggest changes to how you can experience Stadia: the Chromecast with Google TV. There is a third option though, and with the improvements that have continued throughout 2021, Google Stadia is very much alive and should be considered by all who are looking to play games and not pay a scalper, want to game on the go easier, or just don’t have as much time as they used to.

If you want to play, you’re gonna pay, and that’s a reality whether we like it or not. This nearly two year long pandemic has been a reminder that we can’t always get a hold of things easily, with new consoles and graphics cards affected by chip shortages. It was honestly really unfortunate, because the jokes overshadowed a very competent product that, while it did have its flaws, has the potential to grow into a lot more. I think we all know it - Google Stadia became somewhat of a meme when it released, along with the subsequent missing features and the closing of Google’s first party studios hurting the brand.
