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If you are referring to Google TV chromecast, Stadia support is known to be coming in H1 this year. Stadia is a long gane play. Support is not urgent

birdyrooster 5y ago
This is Google we are talking about. The company that does “moon shots” that are 20 years away but sells them off a few years later. They can’t focus on anything long term that doesn’t feed AdSense to the degree YouTube, Search, Maps and Gmail do. Stadia isn’t doing that and it will be gone in a couple years.
- enos_feedler 5y ago
  Have you even read a Google earnings report in the last couple years? Or listened to an earnings call? Your failure to mention Google Cloud just shows how aging your perspective of the company is.
  - birdyrooster 5y ago
    Totally forgot to mention GCP. I meant to get into GCP in this thread with regard to how it's part of Google's pathology. They have a hammer and everything looks like a nail ala Stadia even when the industry is pushing compute for experiences to the edge, Google is always looking to centralize.
  - birdyrooster 5y ago
    Google Cloud was created to compete with AWS which already proved the market. Stadia has no such analogy, it was a gamble.
    - enos_feedler 5y ago
      My point is that Stadia is a critical layer on top of the cloud platforms. If cloud is a proven market, then accessing gaming chips for playing games is also a proven market. I think the ditching of their internal game studio is a sign of strength, not weakness, in this case.
Mindwipe 5y ago
> Support is not urgent Support is absolutely urgent. If you don't seem to be taking your platform seriously by doing things like day 1 support for your own hardware, you shouldn't be surprised that consumers don't take it seriously either.
dougmwne 5y ago
What a strange idea. There was a pandemic keeping everyone at home, a major shortage of GPUs and next gen consoles, a holiday season, stimulus checks, and a full playing field of new cloud and console products vying for the next gen. And Google decided to delay streaming support for 8+ months because nothing was urgent? This is the very apotheosis of urgent. Some other competitor is going to win the cloud market (My guess is Microsoft) and then Stadia's opportunity will be gone.
- enos_feedler 5y ago
  Not disagreeing it’s surprising. Its the reason I still have a Chromecast Ultra instead of the new Google TV one. But I’m not throwing away my stadia controller just because I can’t play on their newest tv product. Winning the cloud gaming market will take a decade. Microsoft can’t win it in a quarter, half or year

birdyrooster 5y ago

This is Google we are talking about. The company that does “moon shots” that are 20 years away but sells them off a few years later. They can’t focus on anything long term that doesn’t feed AdSense to the degree YouTube, Search, Maps and Gmail do. Stadia isn’t doing that and it will be gone in a couple years.

enos_feedler 5y ago
Have you even read a Google earnings report in the last couple years? Or listened to an earnings call? Your failure to mention Google Cloud just shows how aging your perspective of the company is.
- birdyrooster 5y ago
  Totally forgot to mention GCP. I meant to get into GCP in this thread with regard to how it's part of Google's pathology. They have a hammer and everything looks like a nail ala Stadia even when the industry is pushing compute for experiences to the edge, Google is always looking to centralize.
- birdyrooster 5y ago
  Google Cloud was created to compete with AWS which already proved the market. Stadia has no such analogy, it was a gamble.
  - enos_feedler 5y ago
    My point is that Stadia is a critical layer on top of the cloud platforms. If cloud is a proven market, then accessing gaming chips for playing games is also a proven market. I think the ditching of their internal game studio is a sign of strength, not weakness, in this case.

Mindwipe 5y ago

> Support is not urgent Support is absolutely urgent. If you don't seem to be taking your platform seriously by doing things like day 1 support for your own hardware, you shouldn't be surprised that consumers don't take it seriously either.

dougmwne 5y ago

What a strange idea. There was a pandemic keeping everyone at home, a major shortage of GPUs and next gen consoles, a holiday season, stimulus checks, and a full playing field of new cloud and console products vying for the next gen. And Google decided to delay streaming support for 8+ months because nothing was urgent? This is the very apotheosis of urgent. Some other competitor is going to win the cloud market (My guess is Microsoft) and then Stadia's opportunity will be gone.

enos_feedler 5y ago
Not disagreeing it’s surprising. Its the reason I still have a Chromecast Ultra instead of the new Google TV one. But I’m not throwing away my stadia controller just because I can’t play on their newest tv product. Winning the cloud gaming market will take a decade. Microsoft can’t win it in a quarter, half or year