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Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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anthonybsd wrote: post #42
TillE wrote: post #17

You 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…

a test on a mouse click? really? finger travel time is going to dwarf and eat up whatever reaction time you have.

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by avereveard »

dmitshur wrote: post #900
codemac wrote: post #371

Really unfortunate, and I think Google is making a long term mistake here. Stadia worked extremely well for me and some friends who all basically didn't want to invest in a gaming tower. I had a theory though, that if you were a serious gamer, you probably stream or do a bunch of other things on your computer. As the serious gamer would need a reasonable GPU either way to accomplish this, the benefits of Stadia didn'…

> they should have worked on something that could stream directly to youtube gaming This is actually one of the two supported streaming modes, see https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9825342?hl=en .

but that's the crux of the issue streaming is much more than delivering video it's about engaging with the audience and you need the second streaming mode for that, at which poit you already have a beefy enough computer to play

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by haecceity »

Just curious, what happens to the engineers when a project is cancelled at Google? Mass exodus to other projects? Do they get notice? Are they left with weeks of nothing to do while they search for other teams to join?

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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partiallypro wrote: post #753
ren_engineer wrote: post #411

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google needs to restructure their incentives before it wrecks the company. I have no doubt whoever launched Stadia got promoted and then bounced to a different product and didn't care about whether Stadia was a success long term. Google's ad money printer masks the rot underneath, Google is literally a meme at this point for shutting down products. No serious business or developer is going to trust them. If governmen…

To be fair, Stadia was an astoundingly stupid idea for Google to get into, the fact that it was ever green lit is crazy to me. It fits nothing in their business model. At least the Google Pixel showcases Android and digs deep into their AI, etc. Stadia literally didn't do anything, but maybe use GCP in some way...but they didn't do it in the way Microsoft is, which is to lure gaming companies to use the cloud for the…

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Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by activitypea »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #629
Patrol8394 wrote: post #461

Google lacks of focus. They should take a close look at what company they want to be in the next decade and more. And yes, they should radically restructure their system of incentives. Clearly the one they have in place does not work. They have been all over the places, from cloud, finance, gaming, mobile, os, social, you name it. And most of their revenue still come from ads. Steve Jobs: “People think focus means sa…

>They have been all over the places, from cloud, finance, gaming, mobile, os, social, you name it. And most of their revenue still come from ads. Telco, political machine, automotive, surveillance, more surveillance... and they made Flutter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLiiRsqXQbw

Re: Google is shutting down Stadia

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Post by arrow7000 »

causi wrote: post #695
endtime wrote: post #418

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I mostly agree with you, but I downvoted your comment because > We devoted an entire month of resources to this project and thought that was enough! ...is not just wildly inaccurate, but also disrespectful to the people who spent years working on it.

but also disrespectful to the people who spent years working on it. Something being tragic doesn't make it not a waste of time. The writing was on the wall since day one . Nobody was going to pay full price for games that evaporate the moment the servers shut down being offered by the most ADHD company in existence. If you chose to spend your time and energy working on that and expected to accomplish anything other t…

Ha, I literally described Google as having corporate ADHD just yesterday
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