Pretty much this, I guess. From a consumer perspective, my reaction was a resounding meh - if this is the future, the future can suck it.
But it is new and shiny, so I'll certainly check it out.
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Google formally unveils the "Stadia" launching in 2019
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Pretty much this, I guess. From a consumer perspective, my reaction was a resounding meh - if this is the future, the future can suck it.
But it is new and shiny, so I'll certainly check it out.
Sorry if this was already explained, can the controller be used on any controller supported games on the PC?
It's about the same latency as a local Xbox One X or PS4 Pro, according to the DF video. Slower than native PC, though. It's about ~40ms faster than the Project Stream beta, which I was very impressed by, especially for a beta.
It has nothing to do with the bandwidth of the inputs, it has to do with buffering etc. That doesn't ruin watching videos because videos are a static experience, add user input and now it's a total mess.
There is literally no risk to consumers as you have nothing to purchase (assuming they offer demos). I'll take that a million times over buying a console based on hype and fanboy bullshit.
If it didn't work in your setup then no harm done
Plus at least one more frame of input lag and possible microstuttering if you're using a multi-GPU setup, which you will have to do to get 4K60 as these things are using a GPU approximating a Vega 56. It's not going to be responsive. Not initially, anyway.
Wifi-connected controllers are making me worried, especially in a room/house full of Internet connected devices.
I spent a few weeks on Project Stream playing AC:O and encountered that kind of issue less frequently than I encounter full game crashes in Dead Cells on my PS4.
A more frequent issue was video artifacting, but again not to a degree that was really too frequent to ruin the overall experience.
I mean, no way in HELL is this going to be viable in any way for fighting games.
Seeing sonicfox on the presentation video made me chuckle...
How much time have we been hearing this crap.
God please don't let microsoft lead the future of gaming or we're all fucked.
Gotta love how the presenter said "Of course this means no cheating and no hacking", and in the very next phrase "we are going to support cross-platform play". How to completely void an argument in just 5 seconds.
You say that like peple only playing on consoles are used to solid 60 fps in all their games and better graphics.
If Stadia only gets multiplats for the next year, odds are it will be the best and cheapest way to play those games out of all platforms, nothing to scoff at.
so this is why you're up in here trying to excuse this presentation so bad lol
No cuz not everyone is gonna want to play on a small screen.
Hoping it's just local development in that case, and not doing what MS and Sony have been doing the last decade, buying up exclusivity from otherwise 3rd party games. Especially with Google's war chest.
I don't mind if they start their own studio, like if Jade Raymond is heading up a local game dev studio there, but I'll be disappointed if they go out and ... buy 3rd party time based exclusivity or something. I hate it as it is, and don't want another company with the money to do the same.
Who buys consoles over hype, though? I don't buy them until there are enough games on the platform that I genuinely want to play. I didn't buy a PS4 or Switch until over a year into the lifecycle.
Ah yes, the 2 second gif that proves everything negative while actually proving nothing.
I've played OnLive, I've played PSNow, I've played Project Stream, I've even streamed my PS4 to my vita 2 states away and the thing that has effected me the least in all three is this lag boogieman. Image quality is the bigger issue.
I was not interested about streaming at all until I saw that Stadia will support 4K/60 and even 8K in the future.
I am playing at 4K for years now on the PC and I will not go back to 1080p for streaming.
I will wait for pricing, support from publishers/developers and availability in my country.
It will be another option that it will be useful in some cases. So yeah, why not?
I love some negatives comments about Stadia that will be true for any gaming streaming service. If not even worse for other services.
I am playing at 4K for years now on the PC and I will not go back to 1080p for streaming.
I will wait for pricing, support from publishers/developers and availability in my country.
It will be another option that it will be useful in some cases. So yeah, why not?
I love some negatives comments about Stadia that will be true for any gaming streaming service. If not even worse for other services.
Yep. 4k streaming at 60fps uses around 7gb per hour. 1080p uses 3.1 gigs an hour at 60. At least for Netflix.
After all the press people had hyped this up, this was significantly more undercooked than I thought. Feels like a product that has a very limited target audience and more likely to be abandoned by Google two years after launch.
Where did you hear that? I'm in Munich, this is very interesting to me.
I don't know. I believe that they believe this is the future of gaming.
Yea pretty much. Theres some definitely value proposition of instant streaming of games, but I dont believe their are many PC gamers that would be interested in this.
No they presented their new platform at GDC, to get developers on board.
Google can get a lot of attention with Sony not attending E3. Just Nintendo, Microsoft and Google. It sounds really weird lol
Streaming only box sounds like it might be a total mess. It might take off in some places but I can't imagine it working well everywhere.
Even when I am streaming within my local connection with 75 up / 75 down there are some days where I cant even get PS4 remote play to work properly. Latency is rarely the issue sometimes the connection either drops or my image goes straight 360p.
Even when I am streaming within my local connection with 75 up / 75 down there are some days where I cant even get PS4 remote play to work properly. Latency is rarely the issue sometimes the connection either drops or my image goes straight 360p.
By the way, ERA, whit its headline in the OT for the conference saying It's Thinking Again, lied to me.
I was expecting to see Yuji Naka in the scenario announcing his return to Sega and that he is working in a new game, because Dremacast was making a triumphant return. With Sega discarding Sonic as its brand image, and embracing Seaman. With Segata Sanshiro in some ridiculous and wacky video, riding a cloud like Son Goku.
And instead, what I got was a youtuber in a scenario, with an euphoric speech and resembling a second-hand car salesman.
I was expecting to see Yuji Naka in the scenario announcing his return to Sega and that he is working in a new game, because Dremacast was making a triumphant return. With Sega discarding Sonic as its brand image, and embracing Seaman. With Segata Sanshiro in some ridiculous and wacky video, riding a cloud like Son Goku.
And instead, what I got was a youtuber in a scenario, with an euphoric speech and resembling a second-hand car salesman.
My point is you don't have to buy anything, try a game and if it lives up to the hype then great. Otherwise no harm done.
So I am a decent user of Geforce Now and slight user of PSNow occasionally and I think there is a good side spot for this type of thing (especially if it connects to my accounts like Steam, etc), but my issue with this type of service where there is no alternative for local hardware is what happens with big games like Red Dead, Destiny, CoD, etc. Where those games will push their data centers to peak capacity, will they push me to non-regional data centers where performance will be much worse? And what will happens when client stacking doesn't work as intended and brown outs occur that affect the performance of others on the machines (which happens a lot in cloud computing, especially this variety).
And although I like the built in barrier of hacking, does also get rid of built in use of modding :/.
And although I like the built in barrier of hacking, does also get rid of built in use of modding :/.
This is GDC, not E3. It's for developers. They showed off the platform, the technology, the supported engines and studios already onboarding, and information for developers to get involved and start developing on it. This is what GDC is for. For Developers. At the Game Developers Conference.
There were about 5 devices including a TV and they switched between them
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