[HN Gopher] Google's Stadia Problem
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Google's Stadia Problem
Author : ed25519FUUU
Score : 10 points
Date : 2021-02-26 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| DogOfTheGaps wrote:
| HN thread on Stadia from earlier this month:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992664
| supergirl wrote:
| Stadia just doesn't make sense. it's only a matter of time until
| Google ends it completely.
|
| Assuming they give the controller kit for free, Stadia costs
| $10/month, so in 4 years you'd have paid $480, almost the same as
| a new console. plus, the price of the console likely isn't an
| issue if you can afford buying a couple of games that cost $60
| each.
|
| then you have the latency problem in Stadia and the fact that you
| can't really play it from everywhere (even though it's in the
| cloud); you still need the chromecast, right? they might as well
| beef up the chromecast and make it a regular console. the newest
| chromecast already can play android games I think.
| r2222 wrote:
| $10/month is just for the 'Pro tier' which gives you ""4K""
|
| But the implementation is shitty and it depends on the game and
| the devs on how "4K" the title is. Some games have no pro tier
| version, and some have like 1440p30. The free tier is
| 1080p60ish and you pay for the games you want.
|
| Input latency is really a non-issue. I don't think there's more
| to it. It's just not something you have to think about -- until
| you do, but it's been pretty rare for me.
|
| Also you can play it on every desktop platform via Chrome, and
| via Safari on iPads and iPhones. Works on Android too.
|
| And of course Google is going to kill it probably soon :)
| bluefirebrand wrote:
| I have to wonder where you live if you had no input latency.
|
| It seems to me that statements like that are reserved for
| people who live relatively near a datacenter or have
| extremely high internet speeds, or sometimes both.
| bustin wrote:
| Stadia doesn't cost anything per month to use. I can see how
| their horrible wording on the website and insistence on signing
| you up for the 10$ a month Stadia Pro can make it seem
| otherwise. I actually signed up and paid for a month because I
| thought it was necessary. I asked for a refund the next day and
| they refused me.
|
| You can play it on any device (no chromecast necessary) with
| basically any input method. I'm a huge fan of the tech and
| would use it more often while traveling with a laptop if it had
| more than a handful of games. Or a search bar in the ux.
|
| As usual Google does 80% of the work and gives up when it
| realizes the last 20% is the real hard stuff.
| ok_coo wrote:
| I've used Stadia off and on for about a year now, both in a big
| city with fiber connection and out in the rural midwest with a
| decent cable connection. When it works well, it feels like magic.
| The latency is so small, you can't tell the difference between it
| and a game running on a local device. When you get a connection
| hick-up, it's bad, lots of artifacting, losing control, huge
| input lag.
|
| The tech is amazing IMHO, thinking back to type of gaming I was
| doing back in the 80s. Gaming has come a long way.
|
| I think its biggest problem is being associated with Google. They
| have built up a bad rep and I think gamers like sticking to
| platforms they trust and see being around for the long-term. Why
| invest in building a library that might not be around in a few
| years? I personally don't think they'll shut down the service but
| I'm not surprised that a lot of people have those worries.
| [deleted]
| rednerrus wrote:
| Gamestop should buy Stadia.
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