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“Well this is awkward” title Is it really that awkward though, like the end of Stadia wasn’t well predicted? It was a smart move to open Chromebook's support
by pipeline_peak 4y ago
“Well this is awkward” title
Is it really that awkward though, like the end of Stadia wasn’t well predicted?
It was a smart move to open Chromebook's support to cloud gaming competitors. Stadia's performance was so poor, had they still supported it, it's hard to tell if it would discourage competitors from releasing on their hardware as well, my guess is it wouldn't.
- Moissanite 4y agoDid you ever try Stadia on hardware similar to these laptops? I did, and to be honest I thought performance was excellent. On my Pixel Slate, my 2015 XPS13, and my M2 MacBook Air - all gave great performance with no observable lag or bandwidth issues, even when playing on WiFi and streaming Netflix at the same time over a 76Mb/s connection. The only time the experience degraded was, oddly, when using the Stadia-bundled Chromecast, which even had a wired connection. Sadly, like basically everyone else, I never trusted Google enough to buy into the ecosystem - and consequently bought a grand total of 1 game.
- finiteseries 4y agoIt was okay, but solidly last gen. Stadia was always limited to 1080p@60hz, upscaling to 4K at max bitrate of ~45Mbps. Getting the new MBP actually pushed me to GeForce Now at the time which can hit true 4k@120hz and stream at native Mac resolutions with eg ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 now up to 70Mbps, I highly recommend trying it out if you’re still interested in cloud gaming, the difference is quite drastic.
- pipeline_peak 4y agoEverything good Google brought to Stadia always came from their strength as an Internet giant. Like Xbox in 2001, superior performance and backing of a large non gaming company didn’t compensate lack of content. That’s the strongest thing a platform can have.