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Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by tetrisgm »

Some PM and VP probably looked for ways to increase the P&L. I've talked with many googlers, and they interviewed me for leadership positions related to gaming before. I do not like their approach. No gamer wants this. I'm not even sure gaming on Android is even close to what it should be on mobile.

PC gamers, the ones who buy ssds, gaming gpus, want 4k 60fps, you're telling me they want to use mobile games in a vm or wrapper or whatever? You're telling me the people who buy $70 games want free 5 minute games?

There is no way one of these execs is a serious gamer, like the ones they're courting. This is lazy, cheap, and ignorant. I think Stadia was more meaningful than this even, because at least it had some games. This is just going to be a massive waste of time, and they'll just conclude that gaming is a tough business and they were too early.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by andybak »

tetrisgm wrote: post #81

Some PM and VP probably looked for ways to increase the P&L. I've talked with many googlers, and they interviewed me for leadership positions related to gaming before. I do not like their approach. No gamer wants this. I'm not even sure gaming on Android is even close to what it should be on mobile. PC gamers, the ones who buy ssds, gaming gpus, want 4k 60fps, you're telling me they want to use mobile games in a vm o…

PC Gamers != gamers with PCs

Or to put it another way - people with PCs are not a monolithic block with a single profile.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by npsomaratna »

tetrisgm wrote: post #81

Some PM and VP probably looked for ways to increase the P&L. I've talked with many googlers, and they interviewed me for leadership positions related to gaming before. I do not like their approach. No gamer wants this. I'm not even sure gaming on Android is even close to what it should be on mobile. PC gamers, the ones who buy ssds, gaming gpus, want 4k 60fps, you're telling me they want to use mobile games in a vm o…

Agreed. I don't really have time to play PC games anymore, but when I did, I fell into the demographic you described.

(Maybe not 4k 60fps—after all, one does have to compromise sometimes...)

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by bacchusracine »

Windows only:

Minimum PC specifications Your PC will need to meet these requirements to play. • OS: Windows 10 (v2004) • Storage: Solid state drive (SSD) with 10 GB of available storage space • Graphics: Intel® UHD Graphics 630 GPU or comparable • Processor: 4 CPU physical cores (some games require an Intel CPU) • Memory: 8 GB of RAM • Windows admin account • Hardware virtualization must be turned on

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by bacchusracine »

marcodiego wrote: post #67
Jowsey wrote: post #10

On the surface level this seems good. The current Android-on-PC landscape is pretty bleak; your choices boil down to spyware/adware emulators (Mumu, Bluestacks, LDPlayer etc) or Windows Subsystem for Android, which forced me to either use the Amazon Appstore or sideload through the terminal last I tried it. Looks like my account isn't eligible for the beta yet, presumably it's a slow rollout.

> The current Android-on-PC landscape is pretty bleak; your choices boil down to spyware/adware emulators (Mumu, Bluestacks, LDPlayer etc) or Windows Subsystem for Android, Not in the linux land. Last time I tried waydroid it worked impressively well.

If only there was something for xorg that worked. Mate Desktop is not yet Wayland compatible.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by aloisdg »

tetrisgm wrote: post #81

Some PM and VP probably looked for ways to increase the P&L. I've talked with many googlers, and they interviewed me for leadership positions related to gaming before. I do not like their approach. No gamer wants this. I'm not even sure gaming on Android is even close to what it should be on mobile. PC gamers, the ones who buy ssds, gaming gpus, want 4k 60fps, you're telling me they want to use mobile games in a vm o…

I think it is more for your average preteen to play on the computer family to their favorite games when their phone are out for whatever reason. Also addict adult can play at work while being less suspect.

I don't think they are aiming to the hardcore gamerz on a 3k rig playing Cyberpunk in 8k.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by chaostheory »

Aren’t these games already free with IAP? Did I miss an actual paid game?

Also this makes more sense for Mac , or even Linux (even though proton is changing things), where there is a dearth of games. Windows has plenty of high quality games courtesy of Steam, GOG, and Epic to name a few platforms

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by rlex »

hienyimba wrote: post #20

You can already do this on PC using the Windows Subsystem for Android. The major issue surrounding WSA was that it was too technical to setup for most PC users so we built an app for our non-technical users to solve this. Right now, Google building a standalone app for only Android games (people use Android apps fairly on par with games on PC) and then insisting on a slow rollout will most likely make the product go…

Really love WSA compared to other emulators. Fully integrated into OS - including notifications.

Was looking at some way to get good openstreetmaps app on windows tablet (pretty much all windows mapping apps sucks), and with WSA i can run good old osmand or organicmaps. Needs better way to install APKs, though. And proper settings interface with permissions management and etc.

Re: Android Games on PC

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Post by chaostheory »

m3h wrote: post #54
zokier wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The openness of PC means that a second app store can exist and be successful on the Windows platform First one being Steam? > If Google pulls this off, we might see a credible, large store of casual games on Windows for the first time Steam has tons of casual games too.

Steam has a very hard-core gamer feel to it. Just look at its interface. I do often admire the simplicity of Google Play Store. And I think a dedicated store for casual gamers is both a user experience and discovery issue. Steam solves neither of those because they need to sell "all" kinds of games and with that comes the baggage of years of market choices like DLCs, game "editions" and bundles. Google could just go…

The Windows Store also has a lot of these games
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