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Walmart’s unannounced cloud gaming service leaked in Epic vs Apple trialNamed Project Storm, it was initially planned to go into beta in 2019
Named Project Storm, it was initially planned to go into beta in 2019
The Epic Games vs Apple antitrust trial started on Monday, and a bunch of internal documents that the companies probably didn’t want to be leaked online have been made public. It’s not just Epic and Apple’s private info being revealed, however. Confidential emails found amongst the court documents detail Walmart’s plans for their cloud gaming service, Project Storm, which they pitched to Epic back in 2019.
Info from the emails about Project Storm’s timeline and where users players would be able to use it.
In a presentation attached to the emails, Walmart details why they’re “uniquely positioned to win” and why their customers are asking for cloud services. It’s mostly marketing buzzwords to pitch the service, but it does reveal Walmart had plans to release Project Storm in beta in July 2019 (just a few months after USGamer first broke the news that Walmart were exploring cloud gaming).
Walmart had also planned to run the service on Windows through game launchers like Steam, the Epic Games Store, Battle.net, Uplay, Origin and Bethesda’s launcher. It never made it that far though, and the rest of Project Storm’s lifecycle was all “to be decided”.
It’s not clear what’s happening with Project Storm now. According toThe Verge, publishers and developers had signed up to make or host games for it, but the launch was put on hold due to the pandemic.
If you’d like to see the rest of the public Epic vs Apple trial documents,you can find them here. We’ve already learned from the court case thatEpic Games spent nearly $12 milliongiving away free games in their first nine months, andFortnite made over $9 billionin its first two years.
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