Now with a smartphone you can do everything from surfing the Internet to professional-looking photos but also spending free time with games once confined to the more expensive consoles and now instead available on the move without losing graphic quality. This is possible thanks to Google's online streaming game service called Stadia, until a few hours ago exclusive to Pixel devices.
Big G, however, has now unlocked this opportunity also to other smartphones, thus making the paid gaming service available. The bad news for Xiaomi fans is that this service will not have any support for the Chinese company's smartphones, despite the presence of performing hardware. Even more insulting is that even BlackShark gaming phones will not enjoy support for Google Stadia.
Xiaomi remains out of Google Stadia support for smartphones
Unfortunately, the reasons for this "ban" by Google towards its Stadia service against Xiaomi and its affiliated brands, such as Redmi, are not clear. Pocophone and BlackShark, preferring and sponsoring support only for three brands, such as Samsung, ASUS and Razer. The full list of new phones compatible with Google Stadia includes:
- Samsung Galaxy S8
- Samsung Galaxy S8 +
- Samsung Galaxy Active S8
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8
- Samsung Galaxy S9
- Samsung Galaxy S9 +
- Samsung Galaxy Note 9
- Samsung Galaxy S10
- Samsung Galaxy S10E
- Samsung Galaxy S10 +
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10 +
- Samsung Galaxy S20
- Samsung Galaxy S20 +
- Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
- Razer Phone
- Razer Phone 2
- ASUS ROG Phone
- ASUS ROG Phone II
Support for these devices will begin later this week and for the moment Google has not added support for Xiaomi smartphones: this is a real hit for users who love the Chinese brand. We hope that Google thinks about the market share that is losing because it has not added any Xiaomi smartphone. But perhaps the explanation for this, according to rumors, is that apparently both Samsung and Razer and Asus would have paid Google to get priority support on the Stadia platform. Something that seems unfair to us as users and that shows that money is always above the real and rational.
