What Is Going On With Google Stadia?

Google Stadia seems far away from living up to its promises- what’s going wrong?

[lifeisgamesok]

It passed away. Cloud streaming is not the new hotness some wanted it to be

[Ricegum]

Streaming is definitely not the future, not in the foreseeable future anyway. The latency is just too much, especially for competitive multiplayer games. People who think one streaming service will be noticeably better or worse than another is in denial, the infrastructure just isn't ready for it at this point.

[gamer7804]

Right it’s fun to mess around with, so as an additional option it’s fine, but as the only option I don’t think it will be there for decades honestly, every time cloud starts to catch up resolutions or other aspects will increase making the cloud always a step behind.

[starrman1985]

I mean, on the chromecast with the stadia controller I have a better experience than on my PS4, zero noticable latency (compared to a console). The main issue is lack of adopters because of false information like this. I will say that I have a pretty decent home broadband speed though (up to 300mb).

[lifeisgamesok]

Exactly. It'll never be better than playing games locally

[Ron_Danger]

@starman

Are you saying stadia streaming on your chromecast is better than PSNow streaming or better than PS4 local gaming? Cause if you’re saying it’s better than local gaming you’re strait lying based off of buyers remorse.

[UltraNova]

In all seriousness, streaming will remain as a distant option for at least 10-15 years until the internet and IPs are up to standard and available to the majority of gamers everywhere.

Meanwhile....I cant wait to see the grand "revival" when Xcloud is launched and all MS diehards go at it and the eventual fizzing out of streaming, again! Fun times ahead.

[Army_of_Darkness]

@starrman
Running good for you because you have a whopping speed of 300mbps?! 🤣 Bro I have only 75mbps and I'm sure the average consumer has about my speed range more or less, so personally i don't think stadia is worth forking out the extra cash to increase my internet speed just to play games I can already enjoy on my ps4 without worries of having latency due to slower speeds...

[Tross]

Nothing. It's dead.

[AK91]

Yup

[Segata]

Who cares

[onisama]

No one actually but... I know must poeple did know it will suck as any game streaming service before... But a little part of us was hoping for a surprise success because google was behind it..... But look like it failed as expected

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Nothing, it's crap and not needed.

[banshyork]

Phil Harrison knows Stadia is sinking, but he is least bothered as he is getting his paychecks on time from Google.

[rainslacker]

He'll take his payout when the bubble is at it's highest, and leave someone else to clean up the mess. Corporate America is stupid like that. You can fail at what you were put in place to do, but still get paid a stupid amount of money.

[silenthillstrangler]

Google were just trying to kick-start a money grubbing industry and fucked it up royally.
I'm glad it died...for now, mmmwahahahhaha!

[HICK]

Who cares

[glennhkboy]

Google has a very consistent track records of hardware flop in years now. Beside Chromecast, which is the only Google hardware that are mildly successfully, every hardwares Google come up with are dead before their 1st birthday.

[No_Pantaloons]

Its dying, slow and painful. Everyone is walking past pretending they don't see it.

[Elda]

Absolutely nothing.

[Terry_B]

The right thing, people don't buy it and that is good so.

[RazzerRedux]

It is not really a mystery at all. It cost too much. You pay $129 upfront and then $10 a month after the first three. Oh....and you have to buy your games all over again. Stadia should have started with a free edition and worked its way up from there. As it is, gamers can't even try it and see if it is right for them like they can with Geforce Now. You can play Path of Exile on Geforce Now and not pay a single dime. No such options with Stadia. Too much to ask and too much to pay.

[2pacalypsenow]

"what’s going wrong?"

Pretty much what everyone said about it before it released.

Game streaming sucks.

[Npugz7]

They are done!

[Dragonscale]

With the current infastructure and cost for a lot of people, its too soon currently tbh. Its not the same as streaming films or music and lag is a killer for game streaming. Seems native is the way to go for the forseeable.

[Knightofelemia]

This thing should just up and die

[QuePasa87]

Just throw the whole thing away

[FernDiggidy]

Failure

[Dragonopolis]

Stadia is Cost prohibited...... at least with a console there is mostly the ability to share games (mostly single player games but some multiplayer games as well with other accounts that are on the same machine as the account owner.... with Stadia everyone needs to pay for an account and everyone has to have a copy of the game because there is no shared access since there is no hardware to bind the accounts together.... Just more added cost to Stadia if there is more than one person gaming in the house..... Saves a bunch a money when everyone in the house doesn't have to buy a copy of a single player game to play just need on person.... (of course if everyone who didn't purchase the game wants all the goodies that come with upgraded editions since they they would need to buy since they usually only get the basic game.).

Also look at the bandwidth that just one person on Stadia uses to play. Imagine the bandwidth if two people where playing Stadia on the same connection ouch.....

Consoles save money in other ways but the upfront cost hurts..... over the long run still cheaper and better supported than Stadia.

[Y_5150]

Google Stadia didn't just die, it was murdered.

[MasterCornholio]

Stadia supporters didn't support it enough.

And I'm glad they they didn't because there are so many issues with it.

[LordJamar]

Give it a chance I mean the cloud streaming wars just started I mean I get it’s easy to hate on and poke fun of at the moment it this stuff is just beginning peope counting their chicks way way before the eggs and I got no horse in their race I don’t even care about streaming that much I just think it may be silly to just count google out cause they had a bart start who knows where this streaming stuff will go and how far.

[Jalapeno]

Take this from someone who has played games on GeForce Now, PS Now (on the PC) and xCloud on Android & iOS: the negativity towards Stadia appears to be too much to be true. What needs to happen is that people need to try the services themselves. Those articles are all speaking too soon because Stadia Base hasn't launched yet and I'm not going to spend $130 on a controller, Chromecast Ultra, and three months of Pro membership on a game streaming service.

Those articles have not bothered to explain that the streaming quality on mobile phones will probably not exceed 720p just like on the Nintendo Switch and the minimum requirement for 720p is much lower than at 1080p and 4K.

Neither have they explained that the size of the monitor does have an impact on how much data usage you will have using such services. The bigger the monitor, the more data used. The bigger the monitor, the higher the likehood of less smooth gameplay there is.

My advice for anyone doing those streaming game services is to do this on a laptop, tablet, or phone at this point. START SMALL! GeForce Now and PS Now have worked well on my 10 year old 14" laptop with an ethernet cable hooked to it. I'm sure a newer laptop with newer wifi modems built in will not need those ethernet cables.

I have been able to stream xCloud games on my old Android phone and iPhone 11 Pro Max without much problems as well. Be sure to have that Ookla internet speed test tool on your phone. Run that app first before trying to stream games.