Google Stadia’s fancy controller won’t have its anti-lag secret sauce on PC at launch

The Google Stadia Controller will not be entirely wireless at launch, the company has revealed in a recently published how-to video. While the plan remains to integrate a direct wireless connection to Google’s datacentres through the Stadia Controller, at launch this feature will be limited solely to the Chromecast Ultra. In a video titled “what is Stadia and how it works - everything you need to know before launch”, Reddit user Phaar18 has spotted in the small print (via 9to5Google) that “wireless play is only available on TV using Chromecast Ultra.” Unfortunately that means all of your other Stadia-compliant devices, such as those able to run Chrome and Pixel phones, will require a USB cable to operate. That also means you’ll have to sacrifice direct connectivity to the company’s datacentres via the controller – a feature the company has been touting to combat latency and ensure there’s no pesky lag. Whether this will result in a tangible difference between Chromecast and laptop instances we will only know closer to the Google Stadia release date, on November 19, 2019.
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