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Hype is truly a double-edged sword, and its surprising to me that companies are so cavalier about it, especially in the gaming industry where the consumers are

by 013a 7y ago

Hype is truly a double-edged sword, and its surprising to me that companies are so cavalier about it, especially in the gaming industry where the consumers are so brutal and unforgiving. Stadia is an amazing technology... and a fine product. Just fine. They go into marketing this thing with guns blazing, positioning it as the future to play games and the one-stop-shop, they better back that talk up hard. Stadia hasn't (yet). It very much smells like a disconnect between their business/marketing and the product development.

tjpnz 7y ago
>They go into marketing this thing with guns blazing, positioning it as the future to play games and the one-stop-shop, they better back that talk up hard. Yes they better because their advertising was at best misleading.
SmirkingRevenge 7y ago
Companies might be cavalier about these things because the consumers are so often brutal and unforgiving (irrationally so, in so many cases). There's no winning the PR game on Reddit or other social media sites when you have some motivated psychopathic shit-posters drumming up the negative sentiment - especially when the conversation gets titled that way early. There are a few sacred cows, but almost every other noteworthy game or console at some point goes through a similar phase. If the company keeps things afloat long enough while iterating on their product, the shit-posters generally get bored or move on to something else. Many good products succeed despite it all.
ethbro 7y ago
> They go into marketing this thing with guns blazing, positioning it as the future to play games and the one-stop-shop, they better back that talk up hard. Stadia development is expected to pick back up as soon as the Google Fiber rollout is complete...
smolder 7y ago
Stadia is centralized control and even more spying on end users, which this crowd constantly complains of in other cases. Why do people want google button/key/voice logging them any time they play a game? The value proposition is crap and the input latency makes lots of games clunky, incurring a handicap on players. It seems like a terrible product to me from a "what kind of future do we want to live in" perspective, as well as UX.

by 013a 7y ago

tjpnz 7y ago

>They go into marketing this thing with guns blazing, positioning it as the future to play games and the one-stop-shop, they better back that talk up hard. Yes they better because their advertising was at best misleading.

SmirkingRevenge 7y ago

Companies might be cavalier about these things because the consumers are so often brutal and unforgiving (irrationally so, in so many cases). There's no winning the PR game on Reddit or other social media sites when you have some motivated psychopathic shit-posters drumming up the negative sentiment - especially when the conversation gets titled that way early. There are a few sacred cows, but almost every other noteworthy game or console at some point goes through a similar phase. If the company keeps things afloat long enough while iterating on their product, the shit-posters generally get bored or move on to something else. Many good products succeed despite it all.

ethbro 7y ago

> They go into marketing this thing with guns blazing, positioning it as the future to play games and the one-stop-shop, they better back that talk up hard. Stadia development is expected to pick back up as soon as the Google Fiber rollout is complete...

smolder 7y ago

Stadia is centralized control and even more spying on end users, which this crowd constantly complains of in other cases. Why do people want google button/key/voice logging them any time they play a game? The value proposition is crap and the input latency makes lots of games clunky, incurring a handicap on players. It seems like a terrible product to me from a "what kind of future do we want to live in" perspective, as well as UX.