But the bigger issue comes back to Stadia's overall utility. You can't play games on an airplane, fine. But if you can't play games anywhere that has dodgy Wi-Fi, a lot of hotels are out, too, not to mention a lot of coffee shops, libraries, bars and other public spaces. If Stadia works only in private homes with sterling Wi-Fi connections, that means you're probably playing it at home most of the time. And if you're playing at home, it's not that different from playing on a console or PC.
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.
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.
"If Stadia works only in private homes with sterling Wi-Fi connections"
Yet another troll article. I've had a flawless experience with my 17.7mb download connection, obviously not 4K but have experienced no lag that I can see. Destiny 2 is smooth as silk with vastly improved loading times compared to my PS4 copy.
The service is extremely limited in real world situations, so idk why so many journalists may think this would make traditional consoles irrelevant
Surprised they let you when I flew I got in shit for playing with my phone
5g is on the way, that will make this issue irrelevant. Well, not the airplane as far as I know but everywhere else.....
No, I don't have any vested interest in stadia, playing devil's advocate
Yeah imagine start playing stadia on an airplane, and the whole plane turns to you and says wtf.
You just took the whole plane bandwidth.