Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

Post by Orphis » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 4:47 PM UTC

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> Agreed. Enthusiast gamers fret/obsess over a small difference in FPS, refresh rate and lag especially when it comes to competitive gaming. Until Google can deliver a service that is indistinguishable, it’s DOA in my view. I work for Google, opinions are my own. I agree but I don't consider this service to be for hardcore enthusiasts. The enthusiasts will continue to buy their powerful gaming machines because they r…

how are those parents gonna react when their entire month's data plan gets used up in a weekend? honestly i would rather see google try and cut in on the handheld market by creating peripheral controllers for android devices. every smartphone in the world is four buttons and a dpad away from being the best gameboy ever made.

Post by aylmao » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 5:23 PM UTC

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This is actually something that worries me, long term. There's people who still play 30+ year old games— you can still buy a used NES and play classic Tetris if you wanted. Mario Kart on the Wii still works. Online play is broken though because Nintendo has no interest in running old servers to keep a service in a long discontinued game running. If any games are developed solely for Stadia, will they disappear if the…

I think most things we buy have a life. When I pay $$ to get shoes, I dont expect that to run forever. Sure, it might be nice but I _understand_ it might lose its life after a while. We expect software similarly to run forever, but I think we need to start associating life against it. Now if a shoe only works for a week, I'm not going to buy it. If it works for a year, sure I'll take it.Similarly for a digital good (…

Post by changchuming » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 8:32 PM UTC

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Why on earth would it be pay per hour or per MB? Does Netflix charge that way? How about Spotify? Time has shown that the best revenue model for these kinds of services is finding a monthly price, or multiple tiers of a monthly price, that adequately cover the costs incurred from heavy users and light users alike.

Netflix and Spotify’s cost structure are different. Streaming content is cheap. Rendering a high end video game can get pricey because you need GPU time. There’s a lot of other considerations too. Like, a lot of people will pause a stream and let it sit for a few hours. That’s fine. What if people want to leave a game running for a few hours? The computational burden is still high.

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 8:59 PM UTC

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Not with the hardware division being downsized.

Are you referring to Google's hardware division? If you are that doesn't really mean much. Most schools aren't buying fleets of Pixelbooks. They're buying chromebooks from companies like Acer and Asus which make devices that retail in the $200-400 range.

Post by superfrank » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 11:09 PM UTC

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Are you referring to Google's hardware division? If you are that doesn't really mean much. Most schools aren't buying fleets of Pixelbooks. They're buying chromebooks from companies like Acer and Asus which make devices that retail in the $200-400 range.

Yeah, but someone needs to actually develop ChromeOS, without Pixelbooks management might decide to focus elsewhere. And right now from the outside it feels like there is a ramping internal politics going on with ChromeOS, Android, PWA, Flutter, Fuchsia, Kotlin, Dart teams, with upper management giving free reign and let the best win kind of stuff.