I've been watching all week since Cyberpunk came out. Listening to as many podcasts as I can. I'm not a fanboy of any console, nor am I bashing any existing console. It's just that for nearly a year, I've listened to Stadia be the butt ALL the jokes from every member of the gaming press. There has been a steady but growing community on the Stadia reddit with a constant refrain, "What the hell? Stadia is actually really great!"
So I've been watching closely as everybody has been shocked about Cyberpunk's performance on pretty much ALL the hardware except PC. And I *still* don't hear anybody really recognizing how great STADIA is as a platform. We can have a different discussion about the pricing model, but I've heard people OUTSIDE Of the gaming press talk about Stadia. Linus. David Jaffee. Bungie. Unbox Therapy. So many people caught off guard by how good the service is. Jaffe even went so far as to talk about people's pride in admitting that it's good. But the gaming press has been crickets and tumbleweeds. I don't hear podcasts talking about it. Even DLC with Andrew Reiner and Christian Spicer mentioned LUNA streaming in their last podcast, had an entire discussion about CyberPunk, but not even a WORD about Stadia. This same thing happened with Oculus Quest.
All I'm saying is that I don't expect much from the community with regards to tech that is different or challenging, but i do expect the press to discuss the gaming industry equally - which will ultimately affect the more close-minded community. Like Quest's more recent adoption by the gaming community (affected undoubtedly by name brand gaming journos speaking more highly of it), Stadia and services like it should get the same 'shout outs'. To be frank, Stadia is probably the BEST streaming service, blowing the stability and quality of Xcloud, Geforce Now, and Luna away. Within this digital landscape, it's the only one where you 'own' your games. The frequency and deep discount sales and pricing of major titles are at least on par with PSN and Xbox Live.
Not asking the press to eat crow. Asking the press to do their jobs and give Stadia another hard look and consider what that means in this new-gen gaming landscape. One question that people always ask is, "What's the point of Stadia". As a person who has almost every major AAA first-party game on PS4 (with a crazy backlog of shame), see no real interest in upgrading to PS5 until they announce whatever they're doing with PSVR 2, and who made the decision to buy all of my big third party AAA games on Stadia going forward...
...I'd say that the space-saving, the speed, the evolving graphics, the low cost of entry, the sales, and the mobility to play on anything with chrome ANYWHERE? I enjoy Cyberpunk on my iPad. A LOT. or on my computer. Or my TV. That's the point, I think. I'm the audience...and there are a LOT of us.
So I've been watching closely as everybody has been shocked about Cyberpunk's performance on pretty much ALL the hardware except PC. And I *still* don't hear anybody really recognizing how great STADIA is as a platform. We can have a different discussion about the pricing model, but I've heard people OUTSIDE Of the gaming press talk about Stadia. Linus. David Jaffee. Bungie. Unbox Therapy. So many people caught off guard by how good the service is. Jaffe even went so far as to talk about people's pride in admitting that it's good. But the gaming press has been crickets and tumbleweeds. I don't hear podcasts talking about it. Even DLC with Andrew Reiner and Christian Spicer mentioned LUNA streaming in their last podcast, had an entire discussion about CyberPunk, but not even a WORD about Stadia. This same thing happened with Oculus Quest.
All I'm saying is that I don't expect much from the community with regards to tech that is different or challenging, but i do expect the press to discuss the gaming industry equally - which will ultimately affect the more close-minded community. Like Quest's more recent adoption by the gaming community (affected undoubtedly by name brand gaming journos speaking more highly of it), Stadia and services like it should get the same 'shout outs'. To be frank, Stadia is probably the BEST streaming service, blowing the stability and quality of Xcloud, Geforce Now, and Luna away. Within this digital landscape, it's the only one where you 'own' your games. The frequency and deep discount sales and pricing of major titles are at least on par with PSN and Xbox Live.
Not asking the press to eat crow. Asking the press to do their jobs and give Stadia another hard look and consider what that means in this new-gen gaming landscape. One question that people always ask is, "What's the point of Stadia". As a person who has almost every major AAA first-party game on PS4 (with a crazy backlog of shame), see no real interest in upgrading to PS5 until they announce whatever they're doing with PSVR 2, and who made the decision to buy all of my big third party AAA games on Stadia going forward...
...I'd say that the space-saving, the speed, the evolving graphics, the low cost of entry, the sales, and the mobility to play on anything with chrome ANYWHERE? I enjoy Cyberpunk on my iPad. A LOT. or on my computer. Or my TV. That's the point, I think. I'm the audience...and there are a LOT of us.
