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Streaming is not sexy for gamedevs. We all know that latency is going to suffer. I don't understand the pain point they are trying to solve for end-users. Gam

Streaming is not sexy for gamedevs. We all know that latency is going to suffer. I don't understand the pain point they are trying to solve for end-users. Gamers are used to buy shiny new hardware to run their games. This is again a case of a solution looking for a problem.

unsafecast 4y ago
> Gamers are used to buy shiny new hardware to run their games. I think you meant “Gamers that have the money to spare are used to buy shiny new hardware to run their games”. You can get a subscription for $10/mo. That's $120 every year. That's a hell of a deal for a casual gamer that doesn't want to spend the money on a PC.
- stephc_int13 4y ago
  There is also a huge amount of free to play games for this audience.
welcome_dragon 4y ago
Have you tried it though? It's so much better than any other streaming game service from Xbox or PSN When cyberpunk came out, it was crashing everywhere except the stadia version. I've rarely had performance issues with a stadia game, and even playing over 4g is pretty good. The technology almost works like magic here. Now if only there had been more games on it and if people didn't dismiss it before it even launched it MAY have had a shot (and I guess if Google didn't have a knack for killing off things). I am fully convinced that stadia represents a good future for gaming, and as hardware costs go up with sinking bandwidth costs, I am sure the concept will come about again in a similar way.
- stephc_int13 4y ago
  Oh, this idea has been around basically forever, it will come again, I have no doubts about it. Stadia was not the first attempt; it won't be the last one. People have been trying to build perpetual motion devices for centuries, some still are.
camel_Snake 4y ago
I just have a mac so don't have the real hardware to run proper games. I've used Stadia for the last year+ and here are some nice aspects to cloud gaming you may have overlooked. - No downloads. This means if I wanna play any game in my 'library', I just click a button. Not decide if I wanna wait X hours to download/install the game or figure out what to delete to free up space. This means when new updates come out I just get to play them, not time out the download, etc. For cloud-only games, this also frees them from having to limit the game to to user hard-drive space. - No cheating. I mean I guess you could rig an AI that watches your screen and reacts to it but that's much, much harder than current cheats. For a while when cheating was a bit too rampant, some destiny users opted to play PvP on Stadia instead just for the fair games. - Convenience. Being able to switch devices/screens mid session was quite nice. Same for launching games to do a bit of maintenance from my phone (i.e. check daily vendors on my lunch break)

unsafecast 4y ago

> Gamers are used to buy shiny new hardware to run their games. I think you meant “Gamers that have the money to spare are used to buy shiny new hardware to run their games”. You can get a subscription for $10/mo. That's $120 every year. That's a hell of a deal for a casual gamer that doesn't want to spend the money on a PC.

stephc_int13 4y ago
There is also a huge amount of free to play games for this audience.

welcome_dragon 4y ago

Have you tried it though? It's so much better than any other streaming game service from Xbox or PSN When cyberpunk came out, it was crashing everywhere except the stadia version. I've rarely had performance issues with a stadia game, and even playing over 4g is pretty good. The technology almost works like magic here. Now if only there had been more games on it and if people didn't dismiss it before it even launched it MAY have had a shot (and I guess if Google didn't have a knack for killing off things). I am fully convinced that stadia represents a good future for gaming, and as hardware costs go up with sinking bandwidth costs, I am sure the concept will come about again in a similar way.

stephc_int13 4y ago
Oh, this idea has been around basically forever, it will come again, I have no doubts about it. Stadia was not the first attempt; it won't be the last one. People have been trying to build perpetual motion devices for centuries, some still are.

camel_Snake 4y ago

I just have a mac so don't have the real hardware to run proper games. I've used Stadia for the last year+ and here are some nice aspects to cloud gaming you may have overlooked. - No downloads. This means if I wanna play any game in my 'library', I just click a button. Not decide if I wanna wait X hours to download/install the game or figure out what to delete to free up space. This means when new updates come out I just get to play them, not time out the download, etc. For cloud-only games, this also frees them from having to limit the game to to user hard-drive space. - No cheating. I mean I guess you could rig an AI that watches your screen and reacts to it but that's much, much harder than current cheats. For a while when cheating was a bit too rampant, some destiny users opted to play PvP on Stadia instead just for the fair games. - Convenience. Being able to switch devices/screens mid session was quite nice. Same for launching games to do a bit of maintenance from my phone (i.e. check daily vendors on my lunch break)