Stadia to Soon Get Pre-ordering, Messaging and More

Aug. 14, 2020

Google Stadiais slowly but surely becoming a fully fledged cloud game streaming service. The company has been adding a bunch of features to Stadia over the past, and now it seems there are a couple more being worked on.

9to5Google did an APK teardown of the Stadia Android app v2.29, and found a couple of new features that Google is working on for the service.

Pre-orders

So far, Google Stadia offers no way to pre-order games on the service. However, 9to5Google has spotted a bunch of references to pre-orders on the Stadia store. The following lines were found by 9to5Google:

Also discovered within the APK is more evidence of Google bringing Messaging capabilities to Stadia. There are strings referring to actions such as re-sending and un-sent message, and notifications for new messages, etc.

Stadia is also working towards adding a couple of new online statuses to the service. Accoriding to strings found in the teardown you will be able to set your status to ‘Looking for Party’ and ‘Streaming’ in the near future.

Obviously, since these features are currently under development, there’s no telling when (or if) they might actually become available on Stadia for Android. However, it’s still nice to know what Google has been working on for Stadia, and the pre-orders look like an important part of a game service. What do you think? Let us know in the comments.