Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Neoyoshi]

Hell yeah. Get fucked Stadia.

Stadia didn't have much of a future to begin with, there were already other players on the board and i feel like it may have just been bad timing when i look back on it now.

We did get a free copy of Assassin's Creed:Odyssey out of it though; those of us who beta tested the tech back before Stadia's release- it's the game that was used to stress-test it for a numbers of months.


I feel like if Stadia was a thing back in the early 2010's- it would have had a much bigger impact; because the OnLive service was basically like Stadia; but the games were free as long as you had a paid subscription.

Google kills Stadia:
https://blog.google/products/stadia/...ming-strategy/

I knew it, that game streaming has no future.

Cheers

Game streaming does have a future, as others have pointed out, it just needs more infrastructure, and to be fair the whole stadia thing is part of something bigger that's going on between Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. There is a kind of tech-power struggle going on currently, and google just happens to be the one being pushed around right now.

[Larirawiel]

Game streaming does have a future, as others have pointed out, it just needs more infrastructure, and to be fair the whole stadia thing is part of something bigger that's going on between Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. There is a kind of tech-power struggle going on currently, and google just happens to be the one being pushed around right now.

The problem with game streaming is, that it has propably not so many potential customers. The casual gamers, who do not want a PC/PS5/Xbox can play browser games for free. They only need a smartphone and that's it. They do not need to buy the games and pay 10 bucks per month on top of it. And the non-casual-gamers will propably buy a PC/PS5/Xbox because of better latency, better image quality, tuning options etc. The only customers i see are people who do not want to play browser games and also do not want to buy a (new) PC/PS5/Xbox. But i highly doubt, that there are many of them.

You have two somehow successful game streaming services with Geforce Now and Xbox cloud gaming. But this are not the main products of both companies. The Xbox Cloud Gaming is a side project, the main product is still the console. But you can have the option to play your Xbox console games in the cloud on a differeent device. And this is completely different what Google did.



Cheers