How Google’s Stadia Controller eliminates some input lag

Google revealed its Stadia game-streaming platform today at the Game Developers Conference 2019 in San Francisco. The service enables players to begin playing high-end video games over the cloud with the press of a button. You don’t need hardware beyond a connected device with a screen. But Google is still putting together some polymers and plastics to create the Stadia Controller.

This device looks similar to a lot of other modern gamepads. It most closely resembles Nintendo’s Switch pro controller, but with one extra face button. It also doesn’t have offset analog sticks, so it’s more symmetrical — like PlayStation’s DualShock 4.