Most of us knew internet and tech isn’t ready yet . And Google launches many things only to drop them a couple years later . I am sure MS and Sony will have better options before Google figures it out and they both have Libraries . Obviously PS has the largest but MS shits all over Google and that’s not good at all. I don’t have much faith in Nintendo with cloud tech as they can’t even get a half way decent online service going in 2019 but if they could do that and cloud they crap all over Google too. Google jumps the gun way too much and throws shit at a wall and hopes something sticks . But they have closed so many services they should have learned that they need to pick less areas and take their time and get some of them right. They can afford to fail a lot because of their cloud and info gathering devilry but damn , get something else right mofos
Google is to knew to this and doesn't have the backlog. The internet is ready. Xcloud has been getting pretry good reviews so far for it. When it launches next year it will have 4500 games
Something tells me it wont disappear that easily. Xcloud is coming and it will surely be more enticing to users; PS now will be revamped and offer a similar service to Xcloud if not better (content wise, at least). Google will struggle but will copy the other two in an effort to keep the shop open; after that all bets are off.
I kinda agree. If big developers start jumping on the streamtrain, it will probably be the future of gaming, wether we like it or not, and honestly, I don’t like it.
This is very early days. Stop jumping to conclusions before you have any hard data to go on. Even if Stadia did flop and is a technical disaster, that does not mean the future of gaming isn't streaming because Sony and Microsoft are also heavily investing in streaming. Google are not a startup so its a marathon and not a sprint to them. And btw I am a software engineer working on game streaming tech so I know a bit more than you average air heads.
Ahhh I see, so that's why you're so arrogantly and foolishly championing the rest of us to bend over and accept the digital future monopoly.
Really goes to show, you of all people should know game streaming is absolutely not a comparative alternative, but you're invested in it's success so you'll continue to keep spouting nonsense completely divorced from reality.
A software engineer working on game streaming tech...
Thank you for being upfront about that conflict of interest.
Allow me to ask you a question as someone with a little common sense: knowing how much hype Google has put behind this service, do you think that maybe—just maybe—they would be better served by making sure they had a solid, fully featured debut by delaying it to make sure the service launches in a presentable and admirable condition?
I assure you, this does not help them. Stadia launched with negative perception. What's more, it is from Google which is a huge company. They may have single handedly killed all interest in this form of content delivery.
Lol says the airhead who incessantly cried about Stadia in many articles and now when there are many negative reviews you decide to change direction. Air heads don't seem to have a larger memory span than a toddler
Back when I first started in the industry, I was making Kinect API's. MS was going to go hard on Kinect 2, and out of the gate, the company I worked for thought that they'd get ahead of the curve by making tools to make good use of the product. That went to waste in the end. Obviously, Kinect was not going to have anywhere near the sustainability of streaming, but the point is, what may appear to be the golden child of the future, may not end up doing anything in the end. If the market struggles for years and continuously fails to meet expectations, then it will be abandoned.
With game streaming, I think it's way too soon to assume it will fail from any given service provider, but Google isn't exactly hitting the ground running, and it's easy enough to speculate on where they'll end up if they don't get their sh*t together. Google seems aimless. Sony seems to have a direction, although not specifically defined. MS I think has a clear vision for where they want to go with it, but haven't made us completely aware of all the details yet.
All of that though doesn't mean that it's the future. It could stick around forever, and forever remain an option.
But, the contention comes from people that say, "It's the future". It's a singular assertion which excludes everything else, and that goes against common sense, and I can't even count how many times I've heard about what the future is in my 40 some years of gaming.
That said, I will say that while i was making Kinect API's, never once did I ever claim it was the future. I was more reserved than that. One user on here in particular, whose name I can't remember, used to have a lot of discussions with me on the topic. He'd swear up and down about how it was going to be the biggest thing, and take over gaming, and how MS was going to usher in some magical new way to play games....and this was in the last couple years of the 360's life. I said Kinect worked fine when it's limitations and strengths were considered properly, and it worked when you did things right.
Point it, even if you're working on streaming tech, and understand what is possible, a little pragmatism about it's place in the market both now and in the future is not really a bad thing.
Digital will probably make up a large chunk of the future, just accept it lol.
Yes that comes with disadvantages, but also tons of advantages. Devs will be able to do things they haven't been able to do before on your client machine.
@DarXyde
because that's not how it works. This will take lots of time to test, iterate on and become viable for most people, or even value for money. What is for sure is that there will probably be significant improvement over time. This WILL improve, you can be sure of that.
"because that's not how it works. This will take lots of time to test, iterate on and become viable for most people, or even value for money. What is for sure is that there will probably be significant improvement over time. This WILL improve, you can be sure of that."
So what are betas for?
Google is charging a premium for an inconsistent platform with no compelling software and limited performance. They launched before they were ready, plain and simple.
Sounds about how I figured.
This will be gone none existing soon of not when new xbox ps5 comes
LMAO!! A flop on arrival.
Massive resolution and framerate drops, sporadic lag affecting gameplay.. no thank you. My suspicions confirmed