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

Have a gamepad helpful and a current LG TV? You may possible now attempt Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform — as of right now, it’s an app you’ll be able to obtain on your tv operating webOS 5.0 or webOS 6.0 (learn: possible 2020 fashions or later) in any of the 22 international locations 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 beneath 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 have 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 Protect TV set-top field — not these LG TVs — whereas Google Stadia can be providing its full “Stadia Professional” tier with 4K streaming decision, HDR, and 5.1 encompass sound to LG TVs as of right now. 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 attainable benefit for Stadia: whereas GeForce Now requires you to carry your individual video games (it makes use of your PC library), Google is at the moment operating free timed trials of video games like Management.

Even if you happen to don’t have a gamepad, you’ll be able to technically play Stadia on some platforms utilizing your cellphone’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 together with your cellphone as a touchscreen controller for Stadia.