Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

Post by wtallis » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 10:35 PM UTC

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I used to get these, every 5 minutes, right on the clock. Turns out, OS X location services rescan wifi every 5 minutes, God knows why. Turn it off, lag gone.

From Apple's info page on Location Services: > Your approximate location is determined using information from local Wi-Fi networks, and is collected by Location Services in a manner that doesn’t personally identify you. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204690

Post by filoleg » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 10:40 PM UTC

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It's less about them killing products and more about them following the same frustrating sequence of steps (for products that people actually liked): 1. Release a product, make it decently good. 2. Kill it in a few years after it has gotten widely adopted. 3. Release an alternative product that does the same thing, but, a lot of times, worse than the original and/or with missing functionality from the old one that pe…

Agree messaging was bad, but music is still in progress so let's reserve judgement on whether or not that ends up being an OK transition or not. GPE -> Android Go does not fit the mold of the "cycle" you're talking about. Further, Android Go is substantially better than Android One. Do you have any other examples?

Post by mav3rick » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 10:42 PM UTC

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I'm struggling to understand how fewer casual gamers buying consoles would impact indie developers. Could you expand on your point? Indie developers don't get a cut of console sales, but they do care about how many people buy/play their games, and if this widens the market it seems like it'd be a win for them to me.

Most indie games are short. If money is allocated to content producers based on play time, I would bet that most would earn less than a typical indie game purchase price per user. That’s just speculation mind you. Things like Stardew Valley would probably do even better.

Post by kllrnohj » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 10:44 PM UTC

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> Also, you have to actually buy those games first, so your library is a tiny fraction of what Stadia offers. What makes you think games would just be included in Stadia? Competing streaming services here are around $10-20/month without any games included . Origin's game access is $15/month without any game playing hardware included. So... what will stradia end up being, and at what price? Would you pay $30/month for…

Origin does not compete with Stradia, sorry.

Post by kerng » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 10:45 PM UTC

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Google could show ads during the lags - that might help increase revenue numbers.

Unrealistic for what seems like obvious reasons; no one would use the service if it was lagging enough to make that time profitable by way of ads. If your comment was tongue-in-cheek, which I hope it was, I'd urge you to contribute more substance and originality in these comments. After all, this isn't Reddit.