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Since when Wi-Fi is an extreme measure?

• LarryMullins 4y ago
  What's extreme is having to connect a peripheral directly to the internet because you need to eke out every last millisecond of latency. The fact that they felt this was necessary is directly related to the reason it failed; because the whole system was inherently susceptible to latency unless you lived very near to one of their data-centers. The product failed mostly for this reason. Everybody responding to me is acting like it was an obvious solution to the problem, but it wasn't a solution to the problem at all. It was an absurd bandaid placed over a gaping wound.
  • enneff 4y ago
    > The product failed mostly for this reason. Citation needed. That doesn’t seem to be the case as far as I know. GeForce Now does the same thing and they’re making money.
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  • justapassenger 4y ago
    I don’t know why this Bluetooth thing triggers you so much. Only you seem to think that Google spent all of their engineering and marketing towards that one feature. It added few ms latency to a product that requires low latency. It was easy to avoid it (having controllers talk Wi-Fi on top of Bluetooth is hardly a rocket science). It was likely one of many small projects to improve it.