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Is download time a significant factor for people with the types of connections that will have a good experience on Stadia? It’s my understanding that downloadin

Is download time a significant factor for people with the types of connections that will have a good experience on Stadia? It’s my understanding that downloading a large game in a timely fashion and streaming it are both bandwidth-intensive. As for “terabyte-sized games” are there any of those on the market, or even on the horizon? At some point it’s either outside of the budget of most games to produce that many assets, or the 1080p/upscaled to 4K experiences that Stadia provides won’t make use of extremely high resolution textures.

Macha 7y ago
We're not at terabyte yet, but 80-100gb is becoming increasingly common. Even the crash remakes are coming in at 30gb, and that wasn't that High budget a title.
- shard972 7y ago
  So after playing crash for an hour Ive already streamed the entire game's worth of bandwidth. I assume people who buy the crash trilogy would play on average longer than an hour so I don't see the upside in efficiency.
- bathtub365 7y ago
  Google recommends a 35mbit/sec connection for 4K Stadia streaming and they say it uses 20GB/hr of data[1]. Even at your high example of 100GB, that’s just 5 hours of streaming. I understand that the idea is to optimise for instant play but it seems silly to download enough data to cover the entire contents of the game potentially multiple times over a play through. Platforms like Steam, Battle.net, and consoles already allow developers to post staged installs where players can start playing a game before all assets have been downloaded. Stadia continues to look like a solution in search of a problem, where that solution comes with a lot of tradeoffs that I find hard to swallow. 100GB is also only 10% of 1TB, and I find it hard to come up with a concrete use for the other 900GB. 1: https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9607891?hl=en&ref_topic=9600480 https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9607891?hl=en&ref_t...

Macha 7y ago

We're not at terabyte yet, but 80-100gb is becoming increasingly common. Even the crash remakes are coming in at 30gb, and that wasn't that High budget a title.

shard972 7y ago
So after playing crash for an hour Ive already streamed the entire game's worth of bandwidth. I assume people who buy the crash trilogy would play on average longer than an hour so I don't see the upside in efficiency.
bathtub365 7y ago
Google recommends a 35mbit/sec connection for 4K Stadia streaming and they say it uses 20GB/hr of data[1]. Even at your high example of 100GB, that’s just 5 hours of streaming. I understand that the idea is to optimise for instant play but it seems silly to download enough data to cover the entire contents of the game potentially multiple times over a play through. Platforms like Steam, Battle.net, and consoles already allow developers to post staged installs where players can start playing a game before all assets have been downloaded. Stadia continues to look like a solution in search of a problem, where that solution comes with a lot of tradeoffs that I find hard to swallow. 100GB is also only 10% of 1TB, and I find it hard to come up with a concrete use for the other 900GB. 1: https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9607891?hl=en&ref_topic=9600480 https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9607891?hl=en&ref_t...