Two months ago, Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276188
Google is shutting down Stadia
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#42You know it's gonna be bad news when you see a title like that. I've always been bearish on game streaming because it's just not practically, physically possible to solve the problem of input lag. Even an extra 10ms is going to be noticeable and unacceptable for many games.
I disagree. The fastest human reaction time is something around 100ms. (https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime). I've just measured, and mine is 230ms. As such 10ms lag wouldn't make any difference. I've used Shadow Tech PC for a while during pandemic. With good upstream and downstream bandwidth it was a fairly decent experience, even for playing something like competitive Overwatch. I noticed the difference with normal gaming PC due to some other factors (quality of sound, etc.). Standard accessories worked seamlessly for USB-over-UDP.
Re: Google is shutting down Stadia
#43Just a couple of months ago.
"Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro."
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#44Google need to open source and unlock the controllers - otherwise they just created a mountain of e-waste.
I agree, I have the controller and it's pretty decent ergonomics-wise for me. Just hate that I have to use it wired if I want to use it for other PC games.
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#45You know it's gonna be bad news when you see a title like that. I've always been bearish on game streaming because it's just not practically, physically possible to solve the problem of input lag. Even an extra 10ms is going to be noticeable and unacceptable for many games.
I think there is an argument that you can level the playing field by making everyone's lag suck equally. I don't know if stadia did that though
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#46Direct from the horse's mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022775
Also from the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656 Not saying it to argue with your point, just to highlight that we generally shouldn't put much trust into Google.
But this is from 60 days ago, and Google has now announced they are shutting Stadia down.
While "cover your ass" posts may need a grain of salt, there's no logic in "we're killing a product/service" being lip service.
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#47Two months ago, Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276188
>Stadia will exist by the end of the summer. You don’t have to believe me. Like I said feel free to come back to this thread in October.
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#48The real question here is why it took so long to shut down Stadia, especially from Google. It never had any traction at any point in its history.
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#49Never used in the first place, only because I had almost no trust in Google not shutting down any new services.
Not surprised. Google really needs to stop doing this.
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#50Google need to open source and unlock the controllers - otherwise they just created a mountain of e-waste.
This! I would love this!