Your LG TV can now play Google Stadia if it’s operating webOS 5.0 or later

Have a gamepad useful and a latest LG TV? You possibly can probably now attempt Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform — as of as we speak, it’s an app you’ll be able to obtain in your tv operating webOS 5.0 or webOS 6.0 (learn: probably 2020 fashions or later) in any of the 22 nations that Google covers. You’ll discover it within the LG app retailer in your TV.

LG promised that each Google Stadia and Nvidia’s rival GeForce Now cloud gaming service would arrive on its TVs in 2021, and the corporate’s made it below the wire — GeForce Now arrived in beta in mid-November. Beforehand, most Stadia-supported TVs ran some model of Android TV.

Each Stadia and GeForce Now are free to attempt with a primary account — although they’re not essentially equal. We had been blown away by GeForce Now’s new $200-a-year RTX 3080 tier; I wrote that it leapfrogged Google Stadia. However Nvidia solely streams in 4K decision to its personal Defend TV set-top field — not these LG TVs — whereas Google Stadia shall be providing its full “Stadia Professional” tier with 4K streaming decision, HDR, and 5.1 encompass sound to LG TVs as of as we speak. Assuming you pay $10 a month for Stadia Professional, that’s.

We haven’t but in contrast Stadia’s “4K” vs. Nvidia’s “1080p” on the identical display, however I’m keen to offer {that a} spin some night.

One potential benefit for Stadia: whereas GeForce Now requires you to convey your individual video games (it makes use of your PC library), Google is at present operating free timed trials of video games like Management.

Even should you don’t have a gamepad, you’ll be able to technically play Stadia on some platforms utilizing your telephone’s touchscreen — a spokesperson confirms that Stadia’s bridge mode has made it to LG TVs.

Replace, 7:20PM ET: Confirmed that Bridge Mode ought to work along with your telephone as a touchscreen controller for Stadia.