Microsoft may be facing a fight against a bigger titan than it has ever faced before in the gaming market.
Cloud gaming is being pushed by big corporations like Nvidia and Microsoft, but is streaming games online really that feasible?
It's been around long enough to drop the beta tag. It works really good if you have at least 100mb speed. When I had 50mb, it would lag. Once I doubled it, it was much better. And that is running on a phone, a PC and a cloud handheld.
Maybe for super casual and turn based games. But nah. Nothing beats local hardware!
As Google bids farewell to Stadia, recent events surrounding gaming industry hints that the tech giant might have closed shopped prematurely.
"So, it wouldn't be far off to imagine a scenario where Microsoft would have signed a 10-year"
Like that would have saved Stadia. Ridiculously naive premise
No, it shot itself in the foot by not delivering on anything they promised. Besides the browser and multi device launching being easy, they failed to deliver on any other of their highly touted selling points. No game ran at 4k, or 60fps, or even at high settings let alone all 3 together. And honestly had some of the worst latency of any streaming service.
No reason to give Microsoft a reason to tout another stupid "10 year deal" with cloud services that no one has ever heard of or uses.
Microsoft announces 10 year deal to bring Gamepass to LG refrigerators!!
lets not pretend that streaming games is great. and ms cant change that with their deals.
Is Stadia dead? No! Stadia’s heart beat is alive and well. Despite the perpetual declarations of Stadia’s death since even before the platform’s release, Stadia has continued to evolve, to release games (nearly 300!), to release new platform features and to expand to new territories.
I can tell you that p.r. firms no longer flood my inbox telling me which games are being released for it.
No
But it’s time is running out Nintendo and VR is waiting for it in gaming hell
@sensor did you play with it?
I did and YES it’s in gaming hell
Regardless of what Nintendo fans think or wish for 🤷🏿
@sensorchip, I think he is referring to Nintendo labo vr not Nintendo and vr separately
VR is only getting bigger. Nintendo is doing superbly. Not sure where you are pulling your opinion from.
@ cluclap
I’m talking about the 90’s VR aka virtual boy that was dead on arrival like stadia.
Anyways let me stop here before I get flagged and send to sit outside in the ice thunderstorm
It should have died years ago but like a 1980's shitty horror movie with shitty sequels this thing will just not die.
Should have been DOA. Arguably it was for practical purposes. I don't know a single person who has it. It's the Atari Jaguar of cloud gaming services.
Google wasn't ready. They tried to deliver something good on paper, but messy behind the scenes.
Once the promises on the founders pack expired and still weren't realized, Stadia was done.
With more preparation, it could have been a whole different story.
Maybe the higher brass was pushing deadlines?
Maybe the competition was too much?
Maybe Covid stopped progress already mapped out for success?
We may never know everything about the Stadia startup, but it was a bold move, I'll give them that.
It was practically DOA. It's just taking longer to fail because the company behind it has money to burn.
Google definitely has the money and resources to compete with Microsoft, although, I don't trust Google one bit, so I will never do business with them.
So they will be fighting for 3rd place.
Oh snap!
Google has the money to go head to head with Microsoft.
For either last place, or, the biggest company to throw good money after badly throughout ideas.
“Specifically, it seems like Microsoft is now prepared for a world in which gaming platforms and gaming hardware are no longer synonymous as they once were. A “platform” becomes nebulous, almost intangible, nothing more than your login ID to access your games library; games that you can then play anywhere.”
Still doesn’t seem plausible. Your first example only compared casual gamers going from Wii & DS to mobile devices, which isn’t as substantial an example since casual gamers are fickle by nature.
Majority of core gamers who pay on consoles still wouldn’t be willing to give up the hardware based platform in exchange for cloud based gaming. The trade offs aren’t as convenient. Some gamers may like the option, but it’s absurd to believe that traditional gaming is in danger of becoming obsolete.