Google Stadia General Discussion - Like any other gaming platform, but worse.

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Lou Wrong said:
They should not have canceled Google Glass. It was useless for personal use but had great potential for inventory management. But no, they just had to have a hit, rather than a niche product.
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I'm kinda glad they did.
There was a point where having a phone made by google on your face all the time was an amazing idea instead of a horrific nightmare.
 
Few things...

1) The reason Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft came into their own and remain competitive is that they have their own IPs (albeit to a lesser extent with Microsoft who is relying heavily on backwards compatibility at this point). Google has an IP game coming out... but they didn't bother to showcase it, and instead show off a game which will be about a year old if not later. Thus far there is nothing that screams out that this is a must buy.

2) The idea of having a controller idea is interesting, but then think about this. If you're a person that plays games on the regular, chances are you have gone through your share of controllers. The Stadia however is supposed to be your console IN YOUR HANDS AT ALL TIME. If you manage to burn out a control stick or if you hammer the trigger button too hard, you're going to have to throw out essentially your entire console. Granted, I'm not expecting this to be as expensive as a PS4 Pro or an XB1X, but these aren't going to be cheap either.

3) And since this isn't a typical controller, I'm curious about the battery life on this thing since it's also going to be trying to be sending game inputs all the while trying to pull 60fps, 4k resolution graphics (which I still sincerely doubt will be achievable in the majority of the markets). Further, since we got all of this electronic stuff going on, isn't the controller going to be getting hot? I mean, I'm not expecting it to be painful to the touch, but I'd imagine extended play periods with this thing would get to be somewhat uncomfortable.
 
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2) The idea of having a controller idea is interesting, but then think about this. If you're a person that plays games on the regular, chances are you have gone through your share of controllers. The Stadia however is supposed to be your console IN YOUR HANDS AT ALL TIME. If you manage to burn out a control stick or if you hammer the trigger button too hard, you're going to have to throw out essentially your entire console. Granted, I'm not expecting this to be as expensive as a PS4 Pro or an XB1X, but these aren't going to be cheap either.

3) And since this isn't a typical controller, I'm curious about the battery life on this thing since it's also going to be trying to be sending game inputs all the while trying to pull 60fps, 4k resolution graphics (which I still sincerely doubt will be achievable in the majority of the markets). Further, since we got all of this electronic stuff going on, isn't the controller going to be getting hot? I mean, I'm not expecting it to be painful to the touch, but I'd imagine extended play periods with this thing would get to be somewhat uncomfortable.
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Overall, Google's approach to this is kind of dumb unless they're stealing an page from the Switch and using replaceable controllers. Battery life will always be an issue if you're into binge-gaming, nothing ruins my mood more than my Wii's battery dying in the middle of level. And I'm not sure about the radiation burn, aside from wearing gloves (which will probably make things worse).

You know, for an company that runs a prominent search engine, this doesn't sounds like their using it.
 
I'll just let RazorFist speak for me. Another giant leap toward "the complete sublimation of your property rights."

The best I can hope for this is it'll go the way of Google Buzz, Helpouts, Fiber and Notebook. Remember those?
 
If it needs a minimum 25mb, always on connection then it's fucking pointless on most of the UK market ATM, our bb infrastructure is fucking diabolical. That aside, I won't ever buy one, unless the save files are somehow transferable in the event my subscription has to be cancelled.
 
Lou Wrong said:
They should not have canceled Google Glass. It was useless for personal use but had great potential for inventory management. But no, they just had to have a hit, rather than a niche product.
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If they didn't want dumbass tech hipsters who saw no possible downside mincing around agitated, gentrified neighbourhoods with $1500 surveillance equipment strapped to their face to buy it they shouldn't have marketed it to them.

Fortunately there's plenty of people that enjoy seeing plaid wearing nonces get slapped around by crackheads so it wasn't a complete blowout imo.

as for the stadia, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have pretty much an Iron grip on their respective niches and demographics and a Play Store box is a horrible, awful idea.
 
LazarusOwenhart said:
If it needs a minimum 25mb, always on connection then it's fucking pointless on most of the UK market ATM, our bb infrastructure is fucking diabolical. That aside, I won't ever buy one, unless the save files are somehow transferable in the event my subscription has to be cancelled.
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15kb/s master race.

Yes. This really happened to someone I know. That's the power of BT!
 
Sperglord Dante said:
www.pcgamer.com

I tried Google's Stadia, and latency got me killed

Stadia works, but I still have far more questions than answers.
www.pcgamer.com www.pcgamer.com

Apparently the latency isn't bad, it's terrible. If Google really wanted this to be huge with multiplayer games, the project is dead.

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Edit: to put things in perspective, 200 ms is 12 frames of input delay.
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Shit, 12? That might be worse than OnLive was eight years ago, actually.

OnLive ran a deal at one point where you could buy any game on their service for $1, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution had just come out. So I bought it there.

I didn't get much farther than the tutorial mission. Everything felt a little off, and manually aiming the gun was a pain. Input lag can really suck the fun out of a game, even slower-paced ones. Nobody likes scrolling down a menu and hearing the beeps desynchronized with your buttons.

Oh boy, muh 4k resolutions. I'd rather play at 360p with slightly less lag.
 
Deadwaste said:
i'll be a bit optimistic for the game streaming thing considering when i did project stream, it was, for the most part,pretty good. however, im not gonna buy it. google can steal my data to sell me hot pockets and shit all they want. im not paying money for another console until my ps4 breaks
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turns out it wasnt a console so i may get it if it's a service like netflix
 
_blank_ said:
2) The idea of having a controller idea is interesting, but then think about this. If you're a person that plays games on the regular, chances are you have gone through your share of controllers. The Stadia however is supposed to be your console IN YOUR HANDS AT ALL TIME. If you manage to burn out a control stick or if you hammer the trigger button too hard, you're going to have to throw out essentially your entire console. Granted, I'm not expecting this to be as expensive as a PS4 Pro or an XB1X, but these aren't going to be cheap either.
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Having only one controller also limits the amount of games to have. I mean, obviously K&B-based games are out, or controllers with a different layout than normal, and at some point or another, almost every console since the mid-1980s has had some variation of a gimmick controller with only a handful of games--dance pads, musical instruments, cameras, light guns, that sort of thing.
 
Google will give this a go for a year or so then give up on it as they do with everything. Their controller is already terrible but due to the way the company is run it wont change any
 
I would actually say that Google came up with Stadia and its internet requirements because they live in their own bubble in the Google HQ, having at least T3 internet speeds.
They dont realize that gaming consoles' relies on having support from Region 3.
 
When will Google learn that they are best suited to licensing out their software to a third party as opposed to developing in-house hardware?

The console hardware market has razor thin margins for manufacturers across all price points, they had an option here to license /develop an android/chrome app environment that would likely tip the next generation of consoles success between Microsoft or Sony.
 
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Wanted to update the thread because fucking hell the guy in charge of Stadia is an actual clown.

www.androidcentral.com

Google Stadia head Phil Harrison believes ISPs will lift data caps

Stadia chief Phil Harrison says that ISPs will raise data caps for game streaming services in the future.
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"Stadia will show ISPs that Streaming is the future and will raise their caps!"

www.eurogamer.net

Don't expect games to be cheaper on Google Stadia

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>Literally paying for a service AND games seperately which you can't even use offline
Jesus christ, this is a ship thats sinking and burning and will stay burning even underwater. Even the Ouya wasn't this fucking bad.
 
I predict this will be a flop, I only see like a few major triple a company even supporting it at the beginning for a bit then support will drop like the Wii U
 
No way the Stadia lives. Who wants to pay for a subscription and potentially full price for games they can't even own on top of that? Not to mention, good luck playing if you live in an area with shitty internet. They really have a lot of nerve trying to charge you for games too.

The only good thing about it is if ISP's are actually being motivated to move their asses and upgrade their shit.
 
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