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Until you play COD with a latency of 80ms
You kids today. We would play Quake over a serial line back in the day. Uphill both ways. And we liked it.
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When will Google shut down Stadia?
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Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#142Game streaming requires tens of gigabytes worth of data downloaded every hour, resulting in choppy gameplay because of the latency. Their production product seems more like a beta release. They may be too early to market and could see them shutting it down relatively soon.
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#143In general, Google runs its operation like a family of startups still (even given their new departmentalized org chart), and for any new Google product, I consider the operational expected life to be the operational expected life of a startup company announcement.
Google doesn't have a process internally (AFAIK) equivalent to series funding, but the processes they do have are functionally equivalent; if management decides a project isn't worth investing in, teams get re-assigned and that's it.
And companies that can offer a 10+-year support cycle on their products announce fewer new initiatives a year.
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#144Very surprised of general negative sentiment towards Stadia. Why is it like this? Because it's Google, the evil company? Seriously, if any startup launched it in its current state, people would be cheering and blaming it on a new tech/new challenges. But cause it's a very big corporation with top talent it means that they have to release top quality product every time? What the hell... I'm very excited about the proj…
> Because it's Google, the evil company?
Yes - they have closed down so many services that people depended on.
> with top talent
I don't see much evidence of this in their service provisions.
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From what I hear, this is due to the promo driven culture at Google. You can good reviews/promos based on new products that get pushed to market, nobody cares about maintenance at Google.
I heard that Facebook and Google collect engineers and let them do whatever because its better than them being productive at a competitor.
Textbook anti competitive behavior. Google needs to be broken up.
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Maybe I'm crazy but I've never thought google had a good product team. Has there ever been a coherent vision for their collection of products? Edit: just to be clear. I'm not saying google doesnt have good products. I use and enjoy lots of them but for a long time it has seemed like even google isn't sure how all their products fit together. Perhaps that leads to weird forays into territories that don't fit which the…
I think good had (and maybe still) good product teams. For example I'm regularly amazed at small features in Maps that make my life easier. What's missing is the company-level portfolio management.
> For example I'm regularly amazed at small features in Maps that make my life easier.
While I generally agree that Maps is a great and amazing product, I really feel that it is now suffering "peak product" syndrome like MS Word circa late 90s/early 00s. That is, I think Maps was probably "optimal" about 2 or 3 years ago, but since then there has been so much organizational pressure to do something new and add features than each successive version gets worse overall with feature bloat. Yes, some of those new features are useful, but overall I have less and less screen real estate taken up by the actual map and more and more taken up by shit I usually don't care about.
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#147I have zero interest in Stadia personally and I would consider myself a gamer. I just feel like I want less latency and video over internet doesn't seem like it's going to catch up with a 4-6ft video cable direct to my monitor / TV. If Stadia is successful I can see it being a way to pay for new data centers for Google's cloud infrastructure. If you consider that most consoles last a 4-5 years, they cost ~$299-500 ov…
A console and a Google project has a similar life expectancy, but when the console EoLs, you can continue to use it indefinitely for free if you want.
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#148My theory is this was a ploy to make use of idle cloud resources Google invested in for GCP. If that is the case I have much less fear of it just being shut down since its just gravy on top.
Google Stadia games needs to be customized for Stadia. For how long will developers continue to make Stadia versions of their games?
What will happen to the service when the people first involved have moved on and they have trouble finding engineers wanting to work on something that's not brand new? Wasn't that why they cancelled Reader?
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#149Cloud gaming is solution looking for a problem. It's not customer demand driven. Nobody want's cloud gaming (at least not yet). They haven't shown anything compelling why this would be a game changer for end users. The games are not more fun or unique than on any other platforms. Any of the cloud arguments also hold for consoles or PCs on internet connected games. I think the site may be a bit optimistic.
Every time someone posts "Nobody wants cloud gaming" half a dozen people come in and say "Actually, I want cloud gaming"
Don't mistake the fact that you don't want cloud gaming for nobody wanting cloud gaming
Re: When will Google shut down Stadia?
#150This makes me shed a solitary tear for Google Reader :'( And another solitary tear from the other eye for Google Inbox :,(
I shed some tears for the Google widgets or how it was called. It was pretty nice to have some kind of dashboard when opening the browser. A todo list, a calendar, emails, news, weather. When it went away I tried some alternatives, but they weren't the same :/
I also fondly remember iGoogle! Or google homepage, whatever names it had. Looks like it died for G+[0]