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The interesting thing to me is how magical Stadia is, it just works. Regular 4K uninterrupted streaming at peak hours ($19 discounted cyberpunk playthrough). Co
by finiteseries 5y ago
The interesting thing to me is how magical Stadia is, it just works. Regular 4K uninterrupted streaming at peak hours ($19 discounted cyberpunk playthrough). Could pipe 80gb down my device’s gullet in a few hours without a sweat.
Xbox cloud feels like something from 2009 in comparison, ~720p/1080 max, long queues. Blurry, cloudy, artifacty rendering (and millions more users).
And yet, since finishing cyberpunk I barely touch Stadia. I can’t justify paying another discount, let alone full price and there’s 0 selection aside from Destiny 2 (which also looks and feels magnificent).
It’s like if Netflix had no catalog, didn’t invest in its own production, and ended up white labeling it’s shit out to the Hulus and Paramounts of the world. It’s all about the content.
- johnnypangs 5y agoI had a similar experience. I only got it because getting a ps5 was impossible and I really enjoyed playing games on it but abandoned it when the release schedule started to dry up. I ended up buying a gaming PC instead. Shame, having to download games again has me missing Stadia.
- danielscrubs 5y agoIt's a bit unfair to compare it. We don't know how much Stadia cost to run (bandwidth and infrastructure) compared to Xbox Cloud. Xbox Cloud might have had business constraints, to you know... not get shut down. Also there are quite few videos on YouTube that show input lag of several seconds on Stadia so you might have been close to one of their data centers.