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Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by philistine » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 2:22 AM UTC

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #223

unpopularopp wrote: post #124

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GamePass Ultimate (Xbox Cloud gaming) does streaming perfectly so as Nvidia Geforce Now

Not tried GamePass as it's expensive and a subscription service unlike Stadia, I used Geforce now before and it wasn't very good. My friend reports Stadia works far better for them when compared to Geforce now which is not as well optomised / laggy etc. I think it might require a stronger connection that what she has, where as Stadia works flawlessly. Not sure if game pass is better but the price would put me off a l…

I think the distance to the datacentre is a huge element in the lagginess, so I doubt we can declare one service better than another with only anecdata.

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by robotnikman » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 5:09 PM UTC

vineyardmike wrote: post #566

robotnikman wrote: post #441

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It seems when it comes to cloud storage, you best bet is going with a company who's main product is cloud storage, and not just an afterthought or value-add like it was for Amazon. Or build your own NAS is you have the time and experience.

Amazon had a short period where they offered unlimited storage… and a few people took advantage of it too much so they stopped that. The product never really took off as a value add (too many other services). Amazon is also known to kill products but only ones no one uses.

Oh yeah I forgot about that. I think they originally planned to have integration with Plex too, but for somewhat obvious reasons that got axed.

Re: Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down

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Post by simiones » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 5:23 PM UTC

rightbyte wrote: post #606

simiones wrote: post #266

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Google could install a Stadia data center in every block of every city and town on Earth, at least any where there is a Stadia customer. Some version of this is the only way to reduce latency significantly. In a more realistic version, it is exactly what Netflix does - they pay to have Netflix streaming servers running in local ISP centers in much of the world where there are Netflix customers.

Netflix does not need low latency - only bandwidth. They can buffer client side.

Sure, but the solution helps with both (bandwidth because they only need to stream data once over the internet to each data center, not once for every client connected to that datacenter; and latency because there are fewer hops between client and content source).

An infinitely-resourced online play service could pay to install machines that run the games the same way Netflix pays to install their streaming boxes, and would care about both latency and bandwidth (since more bandwidth => better resolution video).