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Google GDC 2019 Conference |OT| Floating on clouds
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I'm disappointed they didn't make a new product that works well with TVs. I have no desire to buy a Chromecast.
I found the "every device" kinda disingenuous because doesn't have to be a Pixel phone or Google tablet...?
someone in easy allies defined it perfectly "It wasn't a presentation for gamers nor developers it was for suits"
The thing with this Streaming future is, people are JUST coming around to digital only (downloading games to your console). I think the first step is having a full digital console (like the no disc drive Xbox and if PS5 does it as well), then I think after that people would be more receptive to a Streaming Only platform.
This will be a nice side-concept, but if they are thinking they will steal the main play space they are wrong.
This will be a nice side-concept, but if they are thinking they will steal the main play space they are wrong.
Look, I'm not saying this thing is going to be great. I have no idea. All I know is that based on what I saw, I like, and I'm willing to wait to see what the final product is before I pass judgement and say it's worthless. If they try to charge some shit like $5/hour to play, or full price for a game, or the service is $30/mo, etc., I'm out.
I'm just being optimistic. Plus the idea of the server-side scaling really makes me interested to see what can be done.
yup. which makes the "its not E3, it's GDC" posts even more baffling
I don't know much about these things but I was looking for that info as well.
Apparently the shifted from local fights with municipalities for pole access to taking a federal approach to mandate pole access across the board. If they win that way, they may well come back in force.
it doesn't cost 200 dollars to be able to stream.
As someone who very likely has the bottom 1% for internet speeds on this site. I am most definitely not on board with the uncertainty of starting up a game and not knowing how reliably it will run. Actually, it really doesn't matter how fast your internet is, there will always be some level of uncertainty when it comes to streaming games, whereas with booting up a game on a console or PC, you can rest assured that the game will pretty much run the way it did the last time you tried running the game.
There is a downside to absolutely everything ever released; you really don't expect a presentation to cover that do you?
Also to be expected
Highlighting that at all is going to be a negative, and if the average Joe doesn't know about it then it can't be seen as a downside
I mean I thought it was great tech...but where my games at,price,details on connection I need....answers answers required everywhere...I'll probably still buy into it
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Exactly!
"But but but... Death Stranding, coming Fall 2025!! Omgz! Pl3ase b exzited right now!"
Shit gets old.
I stand corrected if so...I thought I heard it was specific to Pixel devices...
but before they invest they'd want answers to this fundamental questions, which the presentation doesn't answer.
If it's a multiplayer game, I'm hyped about "Launching on Stadia" because it means it's going to be much easier to get all of my friends to try it out, particularly those who don't have modern PCs.
Newer Android TV's have Chromecast built in so I imagine that it will.
I guess Epic and Unity and all the other devs already working on it were bamboozled
Bummer... Anyway my internet is too shit so it doesn't really matter
the reason people are asking about games is because the idea itself has enough fundamental problems that people want meaningful games to make putting up with those problems worthwhile.
I'm definitely interested in streaming technology, I was mainly referring to google jumping in on it. Why should we care that Google is trying to get into this business when we know that the tried and true platforms will likely be going there before long too?
It just seems weird for them to come out with this.
if they already have all of the devs they need, what's the point of the presentation?
Ill give it a shot. The main downside is latency, which a simple test will let me see for myself. The service itself seems pretty cool to me.
I'm not really interested one way or another in actually playing games with this service, but it seems crazy not to be interested in it at a higher level. Who knows how much of an impact this ever makes, but the potential for an industry changing impact is large enough that I'd think more people would be watching with interest from the sidelines.
This pseudo socialist messaging by one of the (imo) most devious megacorps in the world really pissed me off. They talked big about their tech but that image someone posted about 133ms lag on a 200mbps connection ... like lol, I don't think any ISP is even offering anything past 100mbps around here. This will probably take off the same way the first Google glasses did.
Oh God, I really hope there is at least an option for a console with a disc drive. I really don't want to wait several days for a game to download (that's about how long it would take to download a 60GB game on my network). I really don't want asinine shit like this gatekeeping me from playing new games.
I think one concern I have about this service, and really game streaming in general, is developers designing around the latency and limitations of such a system. Specifically I mean, with the assumption of there being lag, input lag, etc., do developers design to account for that? Do we see larger windows for getting inputs correct(dodging, blocking, jumping, etc.), increasing i-frames, etc.
I dunno I guess it's kind of silly, but it seems like a valid concern that games or mechanics reliant on input speed are either going to be dumbed down a bit or just suffer from input lag.
Obviously beyond that there is the issue of truly losing any game ownership, even beyond what little there is with digital downloads.
I dunno I guess it's kind of silly, but it seems like a valid concern that games or mechanics reliant on input speed are either going to be dumbed down a bit or just suffer from input lag.
Obviously beyond that there is the issue of truly losing any game ownership, even beyond what little there is with digital downloads.
Then they will have a hard time selling this. Cuz high end console gamers are usually the ones using wired and fast internet conections for gameing. Any casual using crappy hardware or mobile are happy with wifi in a cheaper more slow interent.
Once this Stadia service is available everywhere it'll be a nice addition to the gaming market not a replacement.
No, just the obvious downsides that everybody's going to be thinking about while you talk. Anticipating and addressing doubts Is good sales and good promotion.
I don't think so, I think it's anything with a Chrome browser.
That... doesn't make sense to me. So if Google would've announced that Agent was going to be a Stadia ExclusiveTM, you think everyone would be like: "All right, Google knows wassup! To hell with my internet connection, I got Agent!"
Not everyone has an Android TV device though. I'm not sure why they can't invest in a Roku/Fire TV-like device and include the controller.
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