Google Stadia

Beyond.Celsus said:
And yet the plug gets pulled on many games as we speak.
Developers stop support.
Servers get shut down.

The difference?
The community of the game have the files and can save the game on their own. Watch the video.
With the files they can keep the game alive even when the developer does not.
This is not possible with game streaming.

And can we please stop comparing this to Netflix?
It's not remotely the same thing, because you don's spend 200 plus hours watching the same movie. You do not invest the same amount of time. You cannot collect gear, develop a character and invest in a world with a serial like you can a game.
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It is a completely different business model exactly in the lines of Netflix. Renting instead of owning. Which some people want who don't want to invest in hardware and they will need to be aware of and accept the risk exactly at they do with Netflix, DSTV, Apple Music etc. How is that a bad thing?

You are framing this as "own the game or nothing", which it really doesn't have to be. Why can't people who can't afford R10000+ hardware be afforded the opportunity to be included in the gaming market?
 
AlmightyBender said:
It is a completely different business model exactly in the lines of Netflix. Renting instead of owning. Which some people want who don't want to invest in hardware and they will need to be aware of and accept the risk exactly at they do with Netflix, DSTV, Apple Music etc. How is that a bad thing?

You are framing this as "own the game or nothing", which it really doesn't have to be. Why can't people who can't afford R10000+ hardware be afforded the opportunity to be included in the gaming market?
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You still need hardware. . . . . just search Stadia hardware requirements.

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And what's with the 10K price tag?
You can get a PS 4 with COD MW for 4K
 
Beyond.Celsus said:
You still need hardware. . . . . just search Stadia hardware requirements.

Edit:
And what's with the 10K price tag?
You can get a PS 4 with COD MW for 4K
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Google stadia streams PC games. Therefore, the 10k+ to play is on the conservative side.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
Google stadia streams PC games. Therefore, the 10k+ to play is on the conservative side.
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Or you can get an xbox, get xbox game pass for a couple of bucks a month which gives you the same service, except you do not need the extra cost of super high speed internet and the developer / publisher does not hold complete power over your games by withholding all game files.
 

So many mixed reviews on this... I wonder how many reviewers used Google Fibre to do the review?
 
Nemoneiros said:
Should have tested with cisp for the real world experience
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The day Stadia comes to South Africa I am sure CISP will be one of the better ISPs for cloud gaming in general. I am just glad for the Gamers Nexus reviews, for confirming everything my perception of not Stadia per se, but cloud gaming in general.

AI prediction tech will make its way to cloud gaming, but it will not be a competitive gaming platform in the near future, and even AI prediction can be wrong at times.

Is remote gaming the future, yes, but for the best competitive experience there will always be a client-side for computing essential data to be packaged for processing by the server-side (or host).
 
Fulcrum29 said:

So many mixed reviews on this... I wonder how many reviewers used Google Fibre to do the review?
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"Mixed". No, the reviews are pretty unanimous. It's a shoddy service that was rushed to launch without key features that suffers from major performance issues and shouldn't be used by normal consumers.
 
cerebus said:
"Mixed". No, the reviews are pretty unanimous. It's a shoddy service that was rushed to launch without key features that suffers from major performance issues and shouldn't be used by normal consumers.
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Yeah, I have yet to see anything positive said about the Stadia that wasn't a consolation after listing all of its many foibles.

One thing is for sure, the tech is especially unfeasible locally.
 
Iwojima said:
Yeah, I have yet to see anything positive said about the Stadia that wasn't a consolation after listing all of its many foibles.

One thing is for sure, the tech is especially unfeasible locally.
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It shouldn't be unfeasible for me. Interestingly XCloud seems to be getting much better feedback. I guess one reason they launched Stadia out so unfinished is to compete with XCloud.
 
cerebus said:
"Mixed". No, the reviews are pretty unanimous. It's a shoddy service that was rushed to launch without key features that suffers from major performance issues and shouldn't be used by normal consumers.
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I disagree, there is more ‘opinion’ on this than ‘reviews’. The only unanimous agreement on this is that it isn’t market-ready. When you look at the user experience, that which is available then there is a place where people agree to disagree.

Some have no issue with input lag. Some have issues with the input lag. Some have experienced stuttering. Some haven’t experienced stuttering.

Most reviewers haven’t scored Google Stadia, and I am quite sure that they will score it when they believe the product is more mature. It is close to the Epic Store. The Epic Store isn’t market-ready, the Epic Store is about exclusivity, but you know what, people are using the Epic Store.

The only title everyone seems to have an issue with is Red Dead Redemption, but some have blamed the poor PC port.

Digital Foundry is a respected source in the industry. I compared their review to Gamers Nexus, and I am sure that they will agree to disagree.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
The only title everyone seems to have an issue with is Red Dead Redemption, but some have blamed the poor PC port.
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Performance wise it's not a bad port, it's got bugs though. RDR2 PC settings take the game to the extreme, it's 2019s Crysis that requires future GPU power to tap it's full potential (4k 60Hz max settings). What RDR2 calls high are more like ultra or extreme settings. If you use the xbox one x equivalent settings the game looks great and performs fine on 570/580/970/1060 level gpus. I think people expecting to play the game with all settings maxed out are highly unrealistic, hell you can't even do that with gta v from 2015. Rockstar should have defaulted the settings to xbox one x levels out of the box as a starting point. It also runs better on amd than nvidia which leaves you with some salty nvidia fanboys.
 
Not Stadia related , but games via Chromecast.

Installed CastNES from the Google Play Store on an android phone , and downloaded some NES ROMs from gamulator.com.

Nice to use the phone as a controller with the TV as a screen, and to see all the classics again.

I see the creator of the app has other versions of the app for Game Boy etc.
 
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