For me, using Stadia will cost me an extra $600 a year in bandwidth fees alone because of my data cap, and that's the cheapest available option to me.
What does Nintendo mean? Or Atari? People don't care about what a name is so much as what that name means to them. If it takes off, Stadia isn't a barrier at all.
This may be true in America. It is a problem Google will have to tackle in America. But that is absolutely not true for a lot of the world. Internet infrastructure is growing rapidly, governments are mostly pushing hard and supporting it, and data caps is something that generally only exists for mobile data now. Even that is starting to move away. I pay almost nothing for my data plan on mobile and get free data on weekends.
absolutely. It's scary that they almost own/control the entire stack from making the chips(as they already do with tpus) to the internet infrastructure, software and media player. I don't think any company should be allowed to have this kind of power.
The heaven exist. where is that country. 1Gigabit means 100-140 MB/s in Steam download ?
This is incorrect for the vast majority of the US. The only option I have in my entire area (the alternative is far shittier, and the only other competing company) forces you to buy cable TV if you want unlimited data without a cap.
This is incorrect for the vast majority of the US. The only option I have in my entire area (the alternative is far shittier, and the only other competing company) forces you to buy cable TV if you want unlimited data without a cap.
This is about 50 dollars a month for 100mbps/5mbps internet in Oregon. I don't pay for cable TV, so I am forced to have a 500gb data cap.
The highest data cap they allow is 1TB (unlimited if you buy TV) for the 600mbps internet connection.
PS Now is limited by Sony's infrastructure across regions. Conversely, Google's cloud platform has main regions in Mumbai, Hong Kong and Singapore, so they've already got relatively good infrastructure in the SEA region.
Lithuania, most small European countries have fast and cheap internet because the infrastructure is easy to build.
This is incorrect for the vast majority of the US. The only option I have in my entire area (the alternative is far shittier, and the only other competing company) forces you to buy cable TV if you want unlimited data without a cap.
This is about 50 dollars a month for 100mbps/5mbps internet in Oregon. I don't pay for cable TV, so I am forced to have a 500gb data cap.
The highest data cap they allow is 1TB (unlimited if you buy TV) for the 600mbps internet connection.
You are forgetting that most cable companies in the US treat their ISP provider status like mob bosses and tend to have their own 'territory' where you have basically no options to choose your provider.
my data cap is 500gb a month so does this mean that if i do nothing else, I am only allowed to play 25 hours of Stadia games a month?
I agree with this larger point but I will point out that the Xbox/Playstation comparison is inaccurate. No one seriously thought the Playstation 2 would replace a home PC, ever. What was the real concern though, was that Sony was doing a solid job getting mindshare for mainstream gaming and Microsoft could see that failing to get in on that early would limit their competitiveness in the entertainment space moving forward. It was never just about games, but about being a brand associated with entertainment and offering services that capitalize on that.
I don't see how you watched the live stream and didn't have at least some positive takeaways. Like another thing not talked about is how devs can now use Google's machine learning stuff in development, and maybe this doesn't even require the game to be Stadia exclusive. Another thing is how Google right away jumps in on both crossplay and cross progression, further helping push it as the future industry standard. Stuff like how cloud gaming, according to google, makes cheating impossible and as you describe (and DF also talked about) it opening up to new multiplayer experiences just not possible any other way due to hardware restrictions.
Hard to answer without Google revealing their business model which I'm sure you understand.
Google will have to partner with major ISPs. It's almost the only way.
Do you think it's a confusion over "replace a home PC" and "overtake a home PC as a future all-in-one entertainment center"? Because the latter is 100% true and makes sense for the Xbox to want to get in early to compete for that space. The former makes no sense because any game console will never replace a home PC for general use and launching an Xbox does... nothing to combat that? The Xbox wasn't looking to replace home PCs either.
