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> This isn't a market. Almost nobody plays on cloud gaming platforms, like Stadia which recently closed down, or similar. It's a market. Google bungling Stadia

by sofixa 4y ago

> This isn't a market. Almost nobody plays on cloud gaming platforms, like Stadia which recently closed down, or similar. It's a market. Google bungling Stadia doesn't make it any less of a market, or we wouldn't be seeing Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon (to a much lesser extent) pouring money into it. Regardless of your bubble, lots of people use cloud gaming services. There is no way to have concrete numbers, but the Stadia subreddit still has 110k subscribers months after the service shut down. That's not "almost nobody" on the dead service.

qwytw 4y ago
It's an insignificant niche market compared to the rest of Activision and Microsoft's gaming division. > 110k subscribers months after the service shut down. That's not "almost nobody" on the dead service It is approximately close to zero. Especially considering that subscribers != active users (not even close).
tester756 4y ago
110k Stadia which felt like most popular "Cloud" gaming? but let's assume that Nvidia also has something similar So let's say 250k cloud gaming, meanwhile "gaming" as a whole is like bilions of users Thus this Cloud gaming is basically non-existent.
- sofixa 4y ago
  Why do you think that all users of Stadia would also subscribe to the Stadia subreddit and keep being a subscriber after it shut down? It'd be some miniscule percentage. Stadia also wasn't the most popular cloud gaming service, GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming are. Only Xbox Cloud Gaming reportedly had 10+ million users in 2022; meanwhile GeForce Now reportedly had 20+ million in 2022. I do not get the hate/dismissiveness coming out of a position of total lack of even the faintest idea about cloud gaming.
badwolf 4y ago
> the Stadia subreddit still has 110k subscribers How many of those 110k reddit users are/were actual Stadia subscribers though? Just because someone subscribes to a subreddit, doesn't mean they are now, or were ever subscribed to the actual product.

by sofixa 4y ago

qwytw 4y ago

It's an insignificant niche market compared to the rest of Activision and Microsoft's gaming division. > 110k subscribers months after the service shut down. That's not "almost nobody" on the dead service It is approximately close to zero. Especially considering that subscribers != active users (not even close).

tester756 4y ago

110k Stadia which felt like most popular "Cloud" gaming? but let's assume that Nvidia also has something similar So let's say 250k cloud gaming, meanwhile "gaming" as a whole is like bilions of users Thus this Cloud gaming is basically non-existent.

sofixa 4y ago
Why do you think that all users of Stadia would also subscribe to the Stadia subreddit and keep being a subscriber after it shut down? It'd be some miniscule percentage. Stadia also wasn't the most popular cloud gaming service, GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming are. Only Xbox Cloud Gaming reportedly had 10+ million users in 2022; meanwhile GeForce Now reportedly had 20+ million in 2022. I do not get the hate/dismissiveness coming out of a position of total lack of even the faintest idea about cloud gaming.

badwolf 4y ago

> the Stadia subreddit still has 110k subscribers How many of those 110k reddit users are/were actual Stadia subscribers though? Just because someone subscribes to a subreddit, doesn't mean they are now, or were ever subscribed to the actual product.