 This is the battle you've been waiting for. Google Stadia vs Xbox Project X Cloud. Who has the better game streaming service? Let's find out. So Google Stadia is finally here. It's official, you can get it, I have one, you can go and buy it now. But I've also been using Project X Cloud for quite a bit of time. Now both of them are streaming services that give you the ability to stream your games to your mobile device or in case of Stadia, you can stream to your TV through a Chromecast, you can stream on Chrome browser, either on your desktop or your laptop or Chromebook Go, and also your smartphone which is currently limited to a Pixel device, so Pixel 4, Pixel 3, Pixel 4 XL and so on and so forth. So what do we have with the Google Stadia? Now when you get the Founders Edition, which results for $129, you get a controller, you get a Chromecast Ultra, a specific one that works specifically for Stadia here, you get a charger, some cables and boom, that's all you have. Now the controller itself is a mixed hybrid between a PlayStation controller and an Xbox controller. It's got a Stadia button, which is kind of like your home button that chews you all your different stats. We also have a Google Assistant button, which doesn't work right now, and I will mention a few features that just don't work at launch, which is fine, I get it, those things happen. But the controller feels comfortable, I think you'll get used to it, I just don't personally like the thumb sticks in that PlayStation setting, it's just not my style. So take it as you will, but I think the controllers are solid. Now the controller connects to, of course, either your smartphone, your laptop, or your Chromecast, and to set up the controller you have to use the app on your smartphone. Everything with Stadia centers around the mobile experience, I'll again say it again, it centers around the mobile experience, if you're playing Stadia on your TV or you're playing on the Chrome browser and you want to buy a game, you have to buy it off the mobile app, that's where everything houses there. Now speaking of games, Stadia comes with 22 games, you get two games free and the two games I got were Destiny, Destiny's two kind of like special edition, and Samurai Showdown. Now both games, I was able to play both of them on my Chrome browser immediately and I still noticed some glitchnesses and some slowdowns, it does look good, I'll say the games look at about 1080p resolution max and especially playing on the TV where Google promised 4K 60, I have not got 4K 60 yet, Tomb Raider looks the best but it also looked like a high 1080p game. Now speaking of some other features that of course you have with Stadia is the fact that you can play those games and you can switch from your TV to your Chromebook phone instantaneously, so playing a Tomb Raider, a shot of the Tomb Raider on my TV, once I switched over to my Chromebook Go, it paused on the TV and I just have to continue on my Chromebook Go, so it's a very simple seamless experience. Now playing on your TV, you're using the remote control, the funny thing about it is that that's the only time you have a wireless setup to play of course Google Stadia. If you're playing on a smartphone or you're playing on your PC, it is a tethered experience when you're playing on your smartphone or if you're playing on a Chrome browser. Now a couple of things to mention here before we take a look at what Project XCloud does differently here, right? So what about latency, how do games run, how does it feel on Stadia? I will tell you my experience has been a little bit mixed, my internet speeds are 75 up and 75 down which should be fine according to Google specs and I would say when playing games like Mortal Combat 11, there are certain points where I had just random slowdowns that happened especially while playing the fighting game, it can be annoying. Same thing also playing with Destiny, it was really twitchy with the controls, it was better with mouse and keyboard than with the controller even though it was tethered in so that's something to take note but I still felt some of the twitchiness there, Tomb Raider actually ran probably the best of all the games there. Now when you look at Project XCloud, we've seen that, I have a video about that, you can go check it out but what Project XCloud brings to the table is the ability to stream games from Microsoft server directly to your smartphone. XCloud is only limited to mobile devices and on the android ecosystem for now, Microsoft has said that it would expand to of course the iPad and more devices as they move along but with Project XCloud comes with 50 games, the process is pretty simple, you sign in with your xbox account and you've got access to a ton of games and Microsoft said they will be adding more games as months go ahead so that's already a clear difference between Stadia which has two free games and you have to pay for games and most of those games are much older than what you see already from Project XCloud off the bat. The extra benefit with Project XCloud is you can stream directly from your xbox console so if you're like me you have an xbox at home you can go ahead and switch to xbox streaming and stream directly from your xbox at home all the games you have on your xbox. Now if you also have xbox game pass then you have a huge library to stream from as well so you have the ability to stream games that are from game pass to your phone and play anywhere. Now xbox streaming on Project XCloud is actually really good I've got to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare which is a new game which you can't play on Google Stadia on my smartphone my Galaxy S10 plus streaming I played multiplayer I died a lot but it worked well and I didn't notice any negligible slowdowns whatsoever. Now just to let you know Project XCloud is set at 720p on the mobile experience that's what Microsoft said but it looks pretty good I also got to play some Far Cry 5 as well and that handled quite well and finally played some Mortal Kombat 11 and I didn't experience slowdowns there. Now playing of course Project Cloud games from the Microsoft server I played a ton of games in my previous video Forza Horizon Gears 5 Halo 5 now I will say Gears 5 was the only game that had the most amount of latency issues especially with audio syncing. Now there's one key difference with both devices here when we take a look at streaming Tomb Raider Shadow of the Tomb Raider on both Stadia and Project XCloud on Stadia it runs really well you're streaming on Wi-Fi you can see the resolution is about 720p ish also on the Pixel 4 and everything ran pretty well. Now on Project XCloud also running at 720p this is streaming from the XCloud servers ran pretty well as well on Wi-Fi and also when I switch to LTE the one thing I noticed is that it will kind of take you out and take you back in they haven't fixed that yet because it's a beta but you can play the game on LTE and the experience is really similar depending on your LTE connection so that of course will come into play but this is also something that XCloud has over Google Stadia Google Stadia does not allow LTE gameplay only Wi-Fi so if you're on Wi-Fi and you if your Wi-Fi want to go off Wi-Fi and play you cannot do that currently in Google Stadia I'm sure that will come in now you're probably wondering okay so what are the key differences Stadia looks good the games played fairly well some games had laggy issues some games did not so what's you know what's the difference here well the very first thing is Stadia is a paid service as I mentioned it's 129 for the founders edition and it's 9.99 a month for 4k 60 streaming now you'll get you're gonna get that first three months for free but sometime in January February you'll be paying 9.99 a month the thing here I'm not seeing is that I haven't seen 4k 60 at any point in time that I've been playing with the root Stadia and hopefully that will come but it is not there available and Stadia has the ability to play on multiple devices like your MacBook your PC as long as you have a Chrome browser your TV and your pixel device while Project X cloud is limited to just Android phones and tablets right there but Project X cloud has more games and its cost is much much minimal as long as you have Xbox Live Gold which is cheaper than 129 you do have the ability to go ahead and start playing Xbox games which are more than what you have with Stadia so there you have it I think overall both services are good I do like Project X cloud more because it's a beta and it's free and Stadia is also a beta let's just be honest this is not a full flood service I know it will get better but right now Google is lagging behind than a beta service with its full flood service so hopefully that changes but what are your thoughts guys who has Stadia who also has Project X cloud what are your experiences let me know if it's something different if you think I'm wrong if you think you've experienced something entirely you know out of this world leave your thoughts down below don't forget to like and share subscribe to the channel and always enjoy your entertainment