If Google Stadia is meant for ‘everywhere gaming’, shouldn’t the controller be portable? - Yanko Design

Touted as the Netflix for gaming, Google Stadia promises the power to play A-list games on any device. Imagine being able to play console-level games on your smartphone, Assassin's Creed on potentially a $400 device. The promise of Stadia is to accept hardware constraints abroad from gaming, assuasive you to play the best games over the air, equally everything renders out on Google'due south servers, with just the graphics reaching your device similar a livestream video would. Google'due south Stadia is made for everywhere gaming. On your phone, laptop, tablet, desktop, even your Television set… so shouldn't the controller be accommodating of that?

Designer Devin Sidell's re-envisioned the Stadia controller equally a NES-style bar-shaped controller that'south easy to slide into pockets and backpacks. Its slim contour feels near similar a remote, and comes with all the functionality you need. Devin hasn't taken away from the Stadia controller's abilities, but rather just streamlined the form to make it more portable. In your mitt, the Stadia Bar Controller concept feels a lot like a unmarried Joy Con from a Nintendo Switch (albeit slightly thicker). It has all the buttons, including all 4 trigger shoulder-buttons (with their numbers written upside down, then when you tilt the controller over, you tin can read them), and a tear-drop shaped D-Pad and XYAB buttons, giving the Stadia a unique visual appeal. Stadia'southward USP isn't comfortable gaming, but rather gaming unchained… and the bar-controller's portable-over-organic form factor plays perfectly into that ethos!

Designer: Devin Sidell