Google Stadia to Be Pre-Loaded in the next ROG Phone: Report

Google has reportedly partnered with Asus to pre-install Google Stadia on the upcoming ROG Phone, peradventure the ROG Phone 3. The report comes just a couple of days after Google Stadia's compatibility got expanded to a listing of Samsung, Asus, and Razer devices.

The decision to preload Google Stadia is part of the partnership between Asus and Google valid until 2021. The Stadia partnership is limited to Kingdom of belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Kingdom of norway, Spain, Sweden, Great britain, and the U.s..

Stadia was launched concluding November with 22 titles including Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Destiny 2: The Collection, Ascent of the Tomb Raider, Crimson Dead Redemption 2, and more at a price tag of $9.99 per month. By the time the next ROG Phone gets launched, Google is expected to roll out its Stadia Base tier that offers costless 1080p resolution gameplay at 60FPS.

Notably, Asus is the first gaming-centric make to brand a partnership with Stadia. It remains uncertain if Stadia'due south partnership is sectional to Asus or we could exist seeing other gaming phone makers onboard with similar partnerships.

Neither Google nor Asus has provided more data regarding the partnership and hence, we will have to look to run into how things turn out. We could exist seeing like partnerships from other gaming smartphone makers like Razer, Xiaomi, and Nubia with Stadia (if information technology is non exclusive to Asus) or other cloud gaming platforms in the future.

For at present, not much is known about the upcoming ROG Telephone that volition succeed the ROG Phone 2. Of form, it will come up equipped with the recently announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset along with acme-notch specifications and a slew of gaming accessories.