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Stadia Review Thread
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What I'm wondering is why Google seemed to go with one not that powerful set instance image configuration rather than multiple. With GCP you'd think they could just tweak the instances to be much more powerful and run the games better.
Not surprising and quite a shame. :/
I'm not interested in purchasing full games when taking into account the limitations of streaming, but I admire the technology and I wish Stadia could have been the "wow" moment Oculus was for VR.
At this point I'm only hoping for two things when it comes to streaming, because my expectations wouldn't be very high for:
• Services letting you demo a full game for 30 minutes like OnLive did, without having to download 50Gb or forcing devs to create a separate demo/trial version. In an ideal world I could pick any game on PSN/Xbox Live and just press "Try me".
• Remote play from owned hardware.
I guess we'll see how Google reacts to the reviews and if xCloud shakes things up in the near future to encourage stronger competition. They will clearly not give up easily, especially if they get exclusive games/3rd party support, but it's really too bad for early adopters if they don't get what was advertised.
I'm not interested in purchasing full games when taking into account the limitations of streaming, but I admire the technology and I wish Stadia could have been the "wow" moment Oculus was for VR.
At this point I'm only hoping for two things when it comes to streaming, because my expectations wouldn't be very high for:
• Services letting you demo a full game for 30 minutes like OnLive did, without having to download 50Gb or forcing devs to create a separate demo/trial version. In an ideal world I could pick any game on PSN/Xbox Live and just press "Try me".
• Remote play from owned hardware.
I guess we'll see how Google reacts to the reviews and if xCloud shakes things up in the near future to encourage stronger competition. They will clearly not give up easily, especially if they get exclusive games/3rd party support, but it's really too bad for early adopters if they don't get what was advertised.
I mean.. what else do you expect? Is the quality of Stadia how you want to play games?
The reviewers all played it in a confined specific network too,(with only a handful accessing the servers) so we still don't know how it'll be person to person.
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That Verge article is kind of savage. It's super weird that Shadow of The tomb Raider apparently isn't as good on Staida as it is on PC.
You know, that's something I've seen nobody bring up. The possibility for bad Stadia ports that look worse than on other platforms. I suppose it makes very little sense to assume that could happen, but it very well can.
You know, that's something I've seen nobody bring up. The possibility for bad Stadia ports that look worse than on other platforms. I suppose it makes very little sense to assume that could happen, but it very well can.
They didn't. If you read that Forbes review he was talking about his home setup. While I'm sure they played in offices with solid connections, it could vary widely between them.
As in they played it in their own households or something else, cause I read they all played in their houses or office.
If anything I think the Stadia launch is great for MS. I don't think they were planning on coming to the table with a half baked product but I think we can all be assured that they will make sure its completely ready.
Yup. Which is what nvidia is doing and they also don't ask your money for it.
I hope they solve the issues and such in the next few months. The more services the better, the more competition.
I'm in no way a pro gamer and I couldn't even imagine playing a fighting game with that much added latency. Normal people CAN tell the difference. We had a get together at work the other day and someone forgot to set up the displays for game mode and people were complaining how sluggish the games felt before it was fixed.
People need to stop shilling for sub par products. It's infuriating. What's even sillier is that you have shills shilling for a company that they have nothing to gain from. That's even crazier.
People need to stop shilling for sub par products. It's infuriating. What's even sillier is that you have shills shilling for a company that they have nothing to gain from. That's even crazier.
Consoles are dead. Pack it in yall.
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This is what I expected at launch. Maybe google can make it into a stable thing for people who dont want consoles but wouldnt mind just playing some random ubisoft game that their friends with consoles have.
I dont have high hopes though.
Also extra input lag is a no from me.
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This is what I expected at launch. Maybe google can make it into a stable thing for people who dont want consoles but wouldnt mind just playing some random ubisoft game that their friends with consoles have.
I dont have high hopes though.
Also extra input lag is a no from me.
You obviously don't know how to judge input latency though - the facts and figures are here in this thread. 50ms is over 3 extra frames of latency at 60fps, that's pretty massive.
Any pro playing CS competitively (and who knows what they are talking about) would be positively disgusted by a 50ms increase.
This is about a 20MS improvement over the PS Now tests that DF did 2 years ago. Not that impressed tbh.
Midgen refresh happens after a few years, and will amount something similar to 3 years of Stadia subscription
This once again quantifies why Microsoft's approach with xCloud is the correct one. It's not a replacement for couch gaming on a big screen TV, nor should it be. It's a nice way to take your game on your big screen TV on the go with you.
any more input latency tests with the non native controller? many people will probably opt to not use the native one
Jesus, 200 milliseconds. That's .2 seconds for an input to register.
At the end of the day the experience is what it matters and the difference beetween playing this or a console is minimal.
You can bring all the numbers you want, most people won't notice a thing.
You're not forced to pay the subscription.
Stadia? More like... I can't... stand ya!
...interested in seeing how this tech evolves though.
...interested in seeing how this tech evolves though.
I mean the tech works for the most part, it's just bare bones. I think they need to add those differentiating features they showed and there could be a solid base. They are going to also want a bit more exclusive content a bit faster than they have currently laid out. Bare bones with little exclusive content isn't going to hold peoples attention span that long.
The crazy part is I would have to pay $130 just to see if I even would like it. I can't just use the free version because Google will always Google it up.
Hilarious that were comparing a native image from Xbox one to a guy taking a picture off screen using his mobile device
If I go against the hate narrative on resetera though I'll get boo'd
Can't imagine even attempting to play anything on my low tier Comcast Internet.
More from the Verge article:
What the fuck? I have a high-end but slightly old gaming PC, with a GTX 1080, and I can nearly run Destiny 2 at 4K 60 FPS at the highest settings, I just need to turn the resolution scaling down to about 85%. How the hell is Stadia seemingly less powerful than my PC, in this instance?
What the fuck? I have a high-end but slightly old gaming PC, with a GTX 1080, and I can nearly run Destiny 2 at 4K 60 FPS at the highest settings, I just need to turn the resolution scaling down to about 85%. How the hell is Stadia seemingly less powerful than my PC, in this instance?
He really is hitting it out of park currently - first the Shenhmue 3 backtracking and now this. If you can't differ between 30 and 60, maybe you shouldn't put out ffull of yourself statements...
You are not going to magically have games running in a multi gpu and cpu setup unless they have been built with that in mind.
Hardly. If I sounded like I was defending it, I really wasn't. The Digital Foundry headline sums up my thoughts on Stadia nicely. Good effort, decent stepping stone, nowhere near ready to be an alternative to consoles.
Oh man. thats rough and exactly the problem most people will have with it lol