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Introducing Stadia from Google

The future of gaming has arrived. A new playground for every imagination. Introducing Stadia, an all-new gaming platform powered by the best of Google.

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Jin_Sakai1922d ago (Edited 1922d ago )

What a horrible name.

roadkillers1922d ago

That’s what people said about Xbox and Wii

Razmiran1922d ago

And they were not wrong

naruga1922d ago (Edited 1922d ago )

i will never support any non-physical gaming platform ...for me is a NO even before i see what it plays......also ive said it multiple times and i will say it once more ----we need to see what support they will get from Japan ....Because No Japan (games) =No party =DOA

DrumBeat1922d ago (Edited 1922d ago )

I thought 'PlayStation' sounded corny when it debuted and I was thirteen, but I didn't really care because I was so wowed by the graphics, the discs, and Twisted Metal that it really didn't bother me.

We were so used to Nintendo and Sega that anything else at the time sounded silly to us.

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Razmiran1922d ago

Playstation sounds pretty stupid too
Switch is a good name. Dreamcast was top name in my books tho

RacerX1921d ago

Oh yeah, Xbox is a terrible name, but the "piss 4" was perfect.... SMH.

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SuperSonic911922d ago (Edited 1922d ago )

I always dreamed of a unifying platform and I thought it was Android but looks like its gonna be Stadia.

What's interesting is that YouTube to Stadia gaming connection which lets you play or join a game you see on YouTube. Now that is cool.
Also they are bringing couch co-op to the spotlight again via wi-fi.
Oh yeah, no one is gonna bitch about cross play again coz its there on the get go.

SuperSonic911921d ago (Edited 1921d ago )

@ the close minded fanatics below esp EddieNX

Really?
You guys are mentally ill fanatics
A unified gaming platform is a developer's dream so their games get discovered and played by as many people-gamers or non gamers.

Your negative and close minded mental illness is amazing!

I always appreciate the latest, the greatest and the best and give new start ups the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks for exposing yourselves.

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rainslacker1922d ago

I question the appeal of showing some of the most annoying streamers or video chat hosts/players available to make it seem like it'd be cool to play with them and you'd somehow be in some sort of cool club by doing so.

But, then I remembered, Sony actually had this as a prominent feature of the PS4 early marketing. They didn't so much push the idea of tuning in to streamers and connecting to the games that way, although it was possible. They instead, made it where anyone could stream, and become one of these people, and build their own social circle around gaming.

I'd say early on, that idea actually had traction, as was evidenced by the rather high number of PS cameras that sold with the first year or two of the PS4. I don't know where it stands now for Sony, because they don't really talk about it, but I think a lot of people forget that Sony itself targeted that segment of the market to be a core feature of the system.

Google has some new ideas for this, and they're not bad ideas overall, but them being an all streaming service means I'm pretty much not part of their market. PS4 had the base hardware, and I have ignored all the streaming stuff, outside some share plays with friends, so it remained an option, which appears to be well integrated and utilized by the user base. It will be interesting to see if Google can make it into more, but I think being able to leverage YouTube will help them a lot. Sony managed to do it with Twitch, but YouTube is a much more known and watched site overall, and it opens up a lot of business opportunities for Google, and the streamers themselves...for better or worse.

Cobra9511921d ago

"Stadia" is actually the plural form of "stadium". For what it's worth. i wonder if they even considered that when they came up with the name.

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darthv721922d ago (Edited 1922d ago )

Watching the demo go from chrome book to android phone to desktop to android tablet and finally tv using the chromecast was neat.

Stadia has 10.7tf of power built by AMD. Guess they are getting serious about competing with Sony and MS.

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gamer78041922d ago

its streaming only, so its not really competing with xbox and playstation as a whole, only their streaming services xcloud and PSnow

AngelicIceDiamond1922d ago

Thats what I was thinkin. Its a virtual console. After what, 7, 8 years of speculation its a virtual streaming console. Noe exactly a threat tbh.

savedsynner1922d ago

Exactly and like every game service/console before it, it's about the games games games. Make or host good games, you'll do well. Google has enough money to really push this so it'll be interesting if Sony/Microsoft pull an old school nintendo and make developers/publishers sign exclusive contracts for non exclusive games.

demonicale1921d ago

Are you honestly that dumb?!

ravinash1921d ago

If Playstation and Xbox keep making exclusives, then they should be fine.

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SegaGamer1922d ago

It's neat, but it wasn't running on your average internet connection. I highly doubt it will be that simple for everybody.

darthv721922d ago (Edited 1922d ago )

pretty much all of these on stage demos never run over real world internet connections. It's all controlled environments. Like the CD3 cloud demo was running on a direct link to a Ms data center for the cloud assisted physics.

Generally, companies always try to showcase their demos in the best possible light. Sony and Nintendo (when they did stage demos) do the exact same thing.

MatrixxGT1921d ago

Living in a area where my only option is lte hotspot or satellite these streaming devices are not my future.

Cobra9511921d ago

It won't be. From what I gathered earlier, even the best-case scenario will see latencies above 166 ms. That would make it a minimum of 10 frames of lag at 60 fps.

DeadlyFire1921d ago

More than likely ps5 and Xb4 will be comparable or better than 10 Tflops. Honestly the reason it is 10 Tflops probably has more to do with being able to port ps5 and xb4 titles to the platform.

Emme1921d ago

I dont get it, what exactly has 10 tf power ? Its streaming from servers, so what device has 10 tf and why should I as end consumer bother ?

Heavenly King1921d ago

All of that power does not matter. Because all is streamed!!

It all comes down to internet speed; and nothing else.

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italiangamer1922d ago

One of the most cringy video I have ever seen.

gamer78041922d ago

google is good at coding and maths, but honestly they can't design well at all. Gmail interface looks terrible, the stadia controller looks awful, the one good thing about android is that you can customize it so it doesn't look like google...

darthv721922d ago

the controller is a mix of xbo and ds4 so it can't be all that bad.

Nyxus1922d ago

"The future of gaming has arrived."

Stop making threats please.

pcz1922d ago (Edited 1922d ago )

It is an inevitable future which all console manufactures (and consumers) have been inching closer towards each generation.

the future will be with no console, no physical one. no physical games etc. all streaming

Sirk7x1921d ago

Glasses with AR and VR, voice commanded. "Launch game, controller setup 1." Bam, virtual controller materializes in your hand and a screen appears in front of your face. Or, "VR activate", and your VR OS/hub launches from there. Technology is going to be insane in twenty years.

rainslacker1922d ago (Edited 1922d ago )

Its a part of the future, and there is a market for it. It's getting a bit tiresome as a console gamer....and I even assume for PC gamers....to keep being told what the future of gaming is, as if it's some sort of absolute, one to rule them all, kind of thing.

There are lots of markets in gaming, and just like mobile devices not ending up being the future at large, neither will streaming. Just another option, which has it's pros and cons, and it's own market, some of which is shared with other markets. Some publishers will chase after it at the expense of other markets, others will avoid it or wait for it to become more proven. Customers will go on as they did, and the market will ebb and flow like it always has. I remember a time when PC gaming was dead, and it managed to rise from the ashes....mostly due to Steam. Or when console gaming was dead, but it rose from the dead....mostly because of Nintendo. Or how Single player is dead....but it's making a come back....mostly due to Sony and Nintendo.

So on and so forth. If we listened to what was the future, and took it at face value, and just accepted fate, then we wouldn't even have anything anymore.

Wanna know who will be most successful going forward? The one who still has a console, when everyone else has decided to abandon that market for greener pastures. While they all battle it out on the service front, the one that has a monopoly on the market that obviously exists because it's growing every year, will be very happy to have all those customers, and publishers aren't going to ignore 100 million plus gamers. They may still use those sub services, but our money is more important to them than where we play our games.

pcz1921d ago

Ok, physical console gaming will exist, but only as a retro, extremely niche market for people who got left behind and are lost in nostalgia.

Millennials already view compact discs as retro technology. Blu-ray and any disk based medium will essentially be beta max- obsolete.

but yes, your argument stands, there will always be those who cling onto obsolete tech.

rainslacker1921d ago

I think its too soon to call the end of consoles based on these services, when these services haven't yet even shown they are a major part of the market. Google hasn't proven themselves. MS hasn't even released anything yet. Sony's own service has no evidence that it's wildly successful. Prior attempts at such things haven't done that well.

The streaming market has to prove itself before it can be said to be the end of consoles. Even mobile games proved themselves before they were the end of consoles....and look how that turned out.

timotim1922d ago

The future of gaming by Google...filled to privacy leaks, data tracking and ads...no thank you.

vega2751922d ago

I get this strange feeling like Google will pull a Epic on us and buy exclusivity for a year. But yeah I don't want ad filled games and my personal info auctioned off to advertisers to bombard me with stuff I don't want

demonicale1921d ago

Of course Sony and Microsoft haven't had them right?

timotim1921d ago

Google as a company makes their living off of selling your data to other companies and businesses. They are a ad, information and search company by nature. This will be a totally online service that it heavily integrated with YouTube...they are talking about making it as easy as clicking on a link to play a game...the way they get content to its users will be through ads...click on a link in an ad and play a game....click on a link in an ad and watch a stream, etc...

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NVIDIA's Generative AI-Powered Modding Tool Is A Gamechanger For The Industry

The NVIDIA RTX Remix tool is redefining the gaming industry and the modding community in the best way possible.

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"NVIDIA's Generative AI-Powered Modding Tool Is A Gamechanger For The Industry"

True, the especially for all the industry that gets put out of work by it.

generic-user-name3h ago

Have you ever used a self service checkout in a store? Should we ditch alarm clocks so that we can hire people to shoot peas at our bedroom windows to wake us up like they did in the 1800s?

Einhander19723h ago

Working at a grocery store as a checkout clerk used to be a respectable job that could support a family.

romulus233h ago

I try to avoid them at all costs, why should we do a cashiers/clerks job without any training and without being paid for it? Comparing people losing their jobs to A.I. to people from the 1800's shooting peas is hilarious, good try though.

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Is PlayStation Skipping Big Shows A Mistake?

Is PlayStation making a mistake by skipping Gamescom and other huge events? We weigh in

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Obscure_Observer1d 11h ago

"Nope"

That´s why you getting none. Keep on giving Sony a pass while real Playstation fans are giving them a hard time demanding better.

Cacabunga1d 11h ago

Given the competition they have why should they waste money on them?

ChasterMies1d 11h ago

PlayStation is the number 1 selling console. Sony’s marketing strategy is working. Also consider that Microsoft is now a 3rd party publisher. They will go where the other 3rd party publishers go. I’m sure you’ll eventually see Halo in a PlayStation State of Play.

JackBNimble1d 11h ago

Yeah, why should sony waist money on the fans who keep propping them up no matter what?
Can you imagine if MS was software only, why would sony ever do shows?

northpaws1d 11h ago

@Obscure_Observer

Out of all humans I know, you are the least qualified one to tell people to stop giving a company they support a pass.

Cacabunga1d 10h ago

xbox is advertising PS games.

repsahj1d 10h ago

Lol, as if you guys didn't give MS an unlimited pass for a very, very long time already.

MrBeatdown1d 9h ago

Demanding better infomercials?

shinoff21831d 8h ago

Did you have that same energy for Xbox when the droughted you guys for a decade plus? I doubt it

You are right though. Sony has got to give us some sort of gameplan, something, cause Concord, marathon, fairgames, ain't gonna cut it.

S2Killinit1d 7h ago (Edited 1d 7h ago )

@Obscure
You must have amnesia. Do you only remember the MS show and then assume that Sony must immediately respond? Why? Because MS showed a bunch of multiplatform games? Now, Sony must show too? Makes no sense.

Unlike MS, Sony has been releasing exclusive games all along. MS hasnt even released anything yet.

outsider16241d 6h ago

"Keep on giving Sony a pass.."

Guys should we tell him?

BISHOP-BRASIL1d 1h ago

I'm sorry, you expect us to demand better what exactly? Ads? Because you realize that's what these little presentations really are, right? They are a marketing tool, they don't determine what games we get or not, they are only one way of showing 'em off... Marketing is not the product, is what you gotta do to sell the product and, on that front, do you really think Sony is the one in need of your hot take there? Do you see any other console doing better?

Also, considering gaming companies already spend as much in marketing as they do actual development as it is, not making a bigger thing of these events than they absolutely need to be sounds like good business to me. The industry is suffering job cuts left and right, development costs are through the roof and you expect these companies to spend even more on marketing which produces literally nothing tangible for us costumers in the end? Talk about being tone deaf.

mkis00721h ago(Edited 21h ago)

What is worse is showing games that have no release dates. How many games coming out this and next year were announced 3 years or more ago?

If I had 1 console it would be playstation , the track record is unbroken and unsurpassed.

Zeref14h ago

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Because console sales are just as important as having games to play? Lol

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S2Killinit1d 7h ago

No because they can have their own shows. In fact, all platform holders abandoned “big shows” until recently that MS has decided to go back. Sony don’t have to follow.

But, I am expecting, and want Sony to show its hand sooner rather than later with a major showing.

porkChop1d 4h ago (Edited 1d 3h ago )

"In fact, all platform holders abandoned “big shows” until recently that MS has decided to go back"

No, they didn't. Sony and Nintendo, yes. Microsoft has consistently held big shows every year. Microsoft started hosting smaller Developer_Direct's but they didn't stop having big shows. They would sometimes skip a trade show here or there if they didn't have anything to show at that point, but they didn't just stop all big shows entirely.

StormSnooper1d 3h ago (Edited 1d 3h ago )

@porkchop
By “big show” you mean 3rd party conferences like E3, Gamescon, etc.

And yes they all abandoned them for the most part. MS was doing their own as well. Also, whether MS was present at “big shows”, they didn’t really make a splash or a big showing for the longest. All platforms sort of abandoned these expensive venues and went in-house for their conferences. Now, MS has decided to change that it seems.

Notellin18h ago

N4G and the Sony fanboys out in full force today. There isn't a single decent argument down in these comments, just fanboy drivel.

purple1011d 21h ago

Hmm well for all the talk in these forums, Sony sure does seem like they know what they’re doing

VenomUK1d 10h ago

‘Is PlayStation Skipping Big Shows A Mistake?’

As hardcore gamers we miss the big shows, but it hasn’t stopped the PS5 sales success. Hosting shows is not a guarantee of success just ask Microsoft.

Lightning771d 10h ago (Edited 1d 10h ago )

Unless you just sit on here or Twitter playing sales or worried about sales instead of playin games then have fun.

I never expected Sony to show up as they stop going 5 years now but there's a few ways of looking at it.

1 it is frustrating to see Sony not get ppl hyped and excited for its console with a road map. Makes sense.

2 when MS wouldn't show up to Gamescom or TGS sucked at E3 is because they simply didn't have studios to show at any event through out the year. It's not a studio problem for Sony clearly, Hiroki has been transparent and said he's internally delayed their big games to ensure quality. It's as simple as that. Naturally that means we have to wait.

I'm gonna say the same thing I said with Xbox back then, 3rd party rules, nobody will be bored this holiday to next year because most will be playin 3rd party anyway, unless all you do is sweat about exclusives and that's all you play, yeah you're gonna get bored.

Point is, my second summary outweighs my first thought. They're cooking you simply have to wait come SGF next year, I think we'll be blown away.

Rude-ro14h ago

As hardcore gamers, the mass majority of us saw these shows via streams or a show.

It is a marketing money dump.
That is it.
Do you need to hear an audience react to what you are seeing?

Besides costing Sony a lot of money, the amount leaks attributed to these shows were out of control and ruining all the money dumped into these shows.

Microsoft has been in shows for how long?
Making zero new AAA games.
Lying with scripted demos.
Lying with pc buffed versions of their console games.
Lying about games coming.
Etc etc etc
And yet are still in gaming.
Shows have zero effects.
Positively or negatively to the hardcore gamers.

isarai1d 19h ago

I mean if they have nothing to show then they have nothing to show. I wish they did have something to show but if they don't why would they attend a Big show? 🤷‍♂️

dumahim1d 11h ago

They have stuff they can show, they just chose not to.

NotoriousWhiz1d 5h ago

No point in showing stuff that's 12+ months out. Wait until it's closer to release.

rakentaja20h ago

They didn't even have anything to show for State of Play and Gamescom is a BIG event.

isarai18h ago

Not saying it isn't frustrating in fact I've been a forerunner on this site complaining that they're taking forever and questioning why that is. But the fact still stands if they don't then they don't. I mean I highly doubt they're just sitting on completely finished games and trailers to show and just choosing not to show it. If they haven't shown it, It's obviously because it's not in a finished enough state to show.

Relientk771d 16h ago

Same articles different year lol

CrashMania1d 16h ago

I miss Sony presence at big shows, but they've been doing this for years and been doing fine without them.

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