Google Stadia Review - Nerd Reactor

The Google Stadia delivers on beautiful 4K gaming with HDR and 5.1 surround sound in the cloud space, and you can play across multiple supported devices.

[Baza]

Look at these dudes trying to get kudos from Google. Good strategy when no one knows who you are

[xX-oldboy-Xx]

I didn't think that 4K HDR 5.1 was available at launch? I'm sure there was a few articles stating that recently.

Either way - I'm sacrificing goats and praying to God's I didn't know existed for Stadia's failure.

[darthv72]

That seems awfully petty to me. I'm not interested in Stadia but I won't wish ill will on something because it doesnt interest me or i don't agree with it. To each their own I guess.

[xX-oldboy-Xx]

hahaha - yes mate - extremely petty, but I thi k Google can take the loss. Something tells me they'll be fine.

We have a tech giant muscling in our space, not actually investing in our space - of course I want it to fail.

Keep singing Kumbaya big fella.

[porkChop]

It's not available on PC until next year.

[SephirothX21]

Muscling? They are innovating. You're just a moron and software people like me laugh at you. The only thing I hope fails are the hearts of cancerous fanboys..

[xX-oldboy-Xx]

Moron? nice one - You say innovating, I say maximising profits for the least outlay.

One of the largest companies in world wants a slice of the growing gaming market, thats all Stadia is.

At least ms had the decency to release a console and a few exclusives.

[rainslacker]

I'm a software person too. Even said that asynchronous cloud compute was possible back in the day when MS was talking about it for CD3, despite all the people saying it wasn't. MS showed it was possible. Lackluster representation, but good proof of concept.

I know that streaming can work as well. In fact, I've used PSNow, and had no major issues with it. I suspect MS xCloud will work fine. I suspect Google's service will work fine.

I still think that Google will fail, unless they have a huge change in the way they're marketing the service, and figure out who they're actually targeting with the service. Google has name recognition, but they don't have any presence in gaming. PSNow and xCloud will be bolstered by their console user base. Google can only hope to rope people in by linking their service to other services, or a huge marketing campaign.

I don't hope that Stadia fails, but know it probably will.

[Dragonscale]

Innovating my a55, more like bandwagon jumping tbh. And it looks like the wheels have fallen off before it even got started lol. If you're the sort of fanboy that stadia attracts then it deserves to fail with comments like that fgs.

[Pancit_Canton]

How much is this site got paid for the review? Asking for a friend

[yomfweeee]

Why do you all keep referencing killedbygoogle.com? Why are you upset that they try a lot of things? There's no harm in it. If a product/service isn't popular, that will abandon it... just like any other company.

[RememberThe357]

Yeah but if you are still using and liking the products they keep killing, it would make sense if you felt a certain way about that. I have no issue with Google, but trusting them to stick with Stadia is probably foolish at this point. They'll probably kill it after a year and bring it back in a decade with a new name and logo.

[uth11]

After you pay $60 each for a bunch of games, and they pull the plug on the service, then what?

[yomfweeee]

Then you can complain. That is a different scenario than free products they kill off.

[Edgelordsupreme]

You also dont know what their refund system would be, are there any examples of services Google ran that you purchased software and they shut down later with no refund system in place? No? Well I guess assuming the worst case scenario is kinda childish.

Me personally I'm not interested in using a stadia to play games that I could play on local hardware. Most people are bound to feel similar and I dont see Stadia taking off.

[THC CELL]

Paid off review nice try

[orakle44]

I love how if it gets a good review they are paid off..... you people are so jaded.

[THC CELL]

Yawn, what

[Scar-]

This is why I don't trust reviews period, I'm going to go back to buying blind I'll watch gameplay maybe preview thats it. Was this stress tested at RANDOM locations? If so show video of this working with normal internet that most people have and can afford.

[orakle44]

Why is it that you cant trust this just because its a good review? If it was a bad review you'd then be happy?

[Scar-]

They glossed over peoples biggest concerns and vaguely said "its just good" Seriously what type of connection did they play it over? What is good internet??? That's like saying you need a good video card for RDR2. They addressed input lag with a tiny paragraph and I quote "it felt similar to playing on the console version." This is a horrible review based on whats written not the score they didn't review anything. A score doesn't a make a review good did you even read it or just go full google defense mode?

[zodiac909]

yes drop a full $60 dollars for all the games which are a year or more old already..or simply buy them for less than half that price for existing consoles already....difficult decision.

[Auron]

Lol

[FernDiggidy]

Smfh Nerd reactor.

[paradigmfellow]

lol, nice try site. Not giving you traffic.