I watched the conference yesterday and it all sounds great at the surface, but I also don't know enough about all the things talked about to understand. Is it good, is it bad? Are they targeting Steam as well as the consoles with Stadia?
Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
#2I don't think gaming needs another competitor, much less one that already has a history of booting its rivals and starting monopolies. Steam is good enough for me.
The thing that's horrific to me is the quoted 20GB of data transferred per hour during playtime. I don't have data limits so it doesn't affect me too hard but my Internet connection hovers right around 5mbips per second. I live in a smallish city in Maine. Google is alienating those in rural areas.
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
#3I don't think gaming needs another competitor, much less one that already has a history of booting its rivals and starting monopolies. Steam is good enough for me. The thing that's horrific to me is the quoted 20GB of data transferred per hour during playtime. I don't have data limits so it doesn't affect me too hard but my Internet connection hovers right around 5mbips per second. I live in a smallish city in Maine.…
I think they are only focused on the future where almost everyone has fast internet.
I like the that they don’t have any load time. It doesn’t look like it’s going to support most games any time soon. It’s going to be mostly hype for a year , I feel.
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
#4I don't think gaming needs another competitor, much less one that already has a history of booting its rivals and starting monopolies. Steam is good enough for me. The thing that's horrific to me is the quoted 20GB of data transferred per hour during playtime. I don't have data limits so it doesn't affect me too hard but my Internet connection hovers right around 5mbips per second. I live in a smallish city in Maine.…
I think they are only focused on the future where almost everyone has fast internet. I like the that they don’t have any load time. It doesn’t look like it’s going to support most games any time soon. It’s going to be mostly hype for a year , I feel.
I don't think they're being realistic about what the world is going to be like any time soon. While the 5th generation cellular protocols will be great for data in cities, it will still leave people in rural areas behind on 4th or earlier generations because the frequencies don't carry well over distances and the wired/optical backbones need to be in place.
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they are only focused on the future where almost everyone has fast internet. I like the that they don’t have any load time. It doesn’t look like it’s going to support most games any time soon. It’s going to be mostly hype for a year , I feel.
I don't think they're being realistic about what the world is going to be like any time soon. While the 5th generation cellular protocols will be great for data in cities, it will still leave people in rural areas behind on 4th or earlier generations because the frequencies don't carry well over distances and the wired/optical backbones need to be in place.
It's sort of a chicken and an egg problem though right? There's not enough demand to build out speedy rural infrastructure so it doesn't get built, and because it doesn't get built, nobody makes applications which would really increase demand.
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
#6I don't think gaming needs another competitor, much less one that already has a history of booting its rivals and starting monopolies. Steam is good enough for me. The thing that's horrific to me is the quoted 20GB of data transferred per hour during playtime. I don't have data limits so it doesn't affect me too hard but my Internet connection hovers right around 5mbips per second. I live in a smallish city in Maine.…
You don't think gaming needs another competitor because you don't like monopolies?
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
#7I don't think gaming needs another competitor, much less one that already has a history of booting its rivals and starting monopolies. Steam is good enough for me. The thing that's horrific to me is the quoted 20GB of data transferred per hour during playtime. I don't have data limits so it doesn't affect me too hard but my Internet connection hovers right around 5mbips per second. I live in a smallish city in Maine.…
> I don't think gaming needs another competitor
People said the same about Microsoft in 2001 or whenever it was that they launched the Xbox.
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
#9Unless they are able to somehow do client-side prediction I don't think they can overcome the latency hurdle. Maybe they could send multiple potential video frames that are the result of different inputs and select from them when the client chooses an input?
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?
#10I don't think gaming needs another competitor, much less one that already has a history of booting its rivals and starting monopolies. Steam is good enough for me. The thing that's horrific to me is the quoted 20GB of data transferred per hour during playtime. I don't have data limits so it doesn't affect me too hard but my Internet connection hovers right around 5mbips per second. I live in a smallish city in Maine.…
You don't think gaming needs another competitor because you don't like monopolies?
I think he's saying Google will do so well they'll become a monopoly as Google has monopolistic tendencies