That prices covers one to six family members across Apple devices. For $4.99 a month, you can play across Apple devices.Īrcade: You can download and play all Apple Arcade games for $4.99 a month with no in-app purchases on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac and Apple TV devices. 19 with iOS 13 and arrived for iPads, Apple TV and MacOS Catalina a few weeks later. To play individual games without a subscription, you'll need to wait till 2020 and Stadia Base, which is a different level of the service.Īrcade: For iOS devices, Apple Arcade arrived Sept. You'll need to have preordered the now-sold-out Stadia Founder's Edition for $130 - which gets you first access to the service, a controller, and a three-month pass to the $9.99-a-month Stadia Pro - or the still-available Premiere Edition for $140. Stadia: Google at its October Pixel 4 event said you'll be able to start playing Stadia Nov. While we have as many questions as answers about which service may be right for your gaming style and would give you more for your money, here is what we do (and don't) know about the game platforms. For Google, it's about the cloud, and its gaming platform plays to its strengths, letting players take part in cloud-based gaming and then share gameplay through YouTube. Its games service, video-streaming platform and even Apple Music all are compelling reasons to remain loyal to Apple's world and use an Apple device. Tapping into the zeitgeist of gaming also opens up more revenue streams by giving Apple and Google ways to charge subscription fees.įor Apple especially, the push into gaming is part of a larger effort to provide services tied to its hardware. High bandwidth fueled by faster Wi-Fi and the upcoming 5G networks have the potential to make streaming games possible with advanced graphics and very little lag.

Google's service will work a bit like Netflix, where you stream games to your devices, with Google's data center handling all the processing.įor both Apple and Google, a game service is a new frontier that takes the wild popularity of gaming apps a step further. 19 Google Stadia players will be able to start streaming games if they've signed up for Stadia Premiere Edition or Founder's Edition. We got our first crack at Apple Arcade, the gaming subscription service that is available now on iOS 13, MacOS Catalina and Apple TV and lets players download and play more than 100 games exclusive to the service on their Apple devices. It's fall, which means we can now start playing games on Apple Arcade - and soon on Google Stadia - and stop wondering how the two services compare. This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET's complete coverage from and about Apple's annual developers conference.

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