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I think I can help answer your question, but just watching the keynote will be best. https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM. The tl;dr of the

I think I can help answer your question, but just watching the keynote will be best. https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM. The tl;dr of the whole keynote is what's different about Google's attempt at 'Cloud Gaming' is their ability to leverage their infrastructure. Outside of Amazon and Microsoft I don't know of another company that will be able to match the latency and computation requirements to make this all work as marketed. What really stood out to me from their keynote this year was the number of edge nodes that Google has on top of their datacenter infrastructure. https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM?t=1360 https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM?t=1360

AlexandrB 7y ago
> What is different with Google's attempt at 'Cloud Gaming' is their ability to leverage their infrastructure. That's not innovation, it's just having a bigger stick than the other guy.
- lonelappde 7y ago
  Yes,we know, nothing remotely similar to anything else is innovation. Airplanes are just bicycles with bolted on wings.
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bhauer 7y ago
Okay, but that's hardly what most would consider innovative. Applying their large scale is more of an evolution of or improvement to the established cloud gaming idea.
- lonelappde 7y ago
  That's what the word "innovation" means. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation
hyperpallium 7y ago
Google Suggest is low latency, and required a huge effort, driven from the top. Cloud gaming needs even lower latency. I don't think it's possible, but if google is doing the serious datacenter work, it must be a testbed for something else, because gaming isn't worth it anyway.
- gilrain 7y ago
  "gaming isn't worth it anyway" > By 2018, the United States video game industry had matched that of the Unites States film industry on basis of revenue, with both industries having made around US$43 billion that year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry
  - hyperpallium 7y ago
    Google's revenue in 2018 was $137B... but you're right, a slice of $43B may be worth it to them.
maest 7y ago
All that compute and network power and yet GeForceNow performs better for me than Stadia. I'm just one datapoint, I know, but that's also just a keynote.

AlexandrB 7y ago

> What is different with Google's attempt at 'Cloud Gaming' is their ability to leverage their infrastructure. That's not innovation, it's just having a bigger stick than the other guy.

lonelappde 7y ago
Yes,we know, nothing remotely similar to anything else is innovation. Airplanes are just bicycles with bolted on wings.

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bhauer 7y ago

Okay, but that's hardly what most would consider innovative. Applying their large scale is more of an evolution of or improvement to the established cloud gaming idea.

lonelappde 7y ago
That's what the word "innovation" means. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation

hyperpallium 7y ago

Google Suggest is low latency, and required a huge effort, driven from the top. Cloud gaming needs even lower latency. I don't think it's possible, but if google is doing the serious datacenter work, it must be a testbed for something else, because gaming isn't worth it anyway.

gilrain 7y ago
"gaming isn't worth it anyway" > By 2018, the United States video game industry had matched that of the Unites States film industry on basis of revenue, with both industries having made around US$43 billion that year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry
- hyperpallium 7y ago
  Google's revenue in 2018 was $137B... but you're right, a slice of $43B may be worth it to them.

maest 7y ago

All that compute and network power and yet GeForceNow performs better for me than Stadia. I'm just one datapoint, I know, but that's also just a keynote.