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Stadia Review Thread
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I feel like they do not have their blades setup properly and pooling resources as they expected.
The only conclusion I can draw is that Google was not being honest about the hardware behind the Stadia. This is not the performance of a 10TF system. nowhere close.
Enjoy Founders Edition Beta Testers.
Imagine waiting for months to play this @ 60fps...only for it to be at 30fps and Xbox graphics settings.
fucking ooof
Imagine waiting for months to play this @ 60fps...only for it to be at 30fps and Xbox graphics settings.
DOA numbers right there.
Well, thats rough.
I wonder how much better xCloud or Valves rumored service (if it does actually come to fruition) will fair.
I wonder how much better xCloud or Valves rumored service (if it does actually come to fruition) will fair.
Wow, honestly surprised you cancelled. I'd just save the money and put it towards an upgrade on your PC.
Not since the Wii U has there been something so easily pegged as a failure from reveal to launch. Like, who didn't see this coming?
No just going to keep using GeForce now which I already have, stadia doesn't look any better than it so don't see a need to move from GeForce now. Not yet anyway
I think people expected to not be charged $130 + $60 a game + $10 a month for a work in progress.
Or maybe ... the reported specs for the blades behind the service aren't actually that high.
Or maybe their VM layer puts multiple servers on a single blade?
The Stadia servers may have raw power packed inside that exceeds consoles/PC but that doesn't automatically mean games will run better. From what I've read they are using a custom AMD GPU (which I'm sure doesn't just use Radeon drivers), running linux OS, and the Vulkan API. The launch titles are ports to the Stadia platform that surely had to be re-engineered.
This technically is the beta.
You'll find this in my review, but here's Shadow of the Tomb Raider hard freezing. System UI and whatnot still works.
Yeah just wait until we see impressions from people with subpar Internet or weak wifi signals (caused by interference or just old/bad routers).
True. Geforce now beta has been going for almost two years now at no charge.
This thing feels like an alpha. Kind of disappointing coming from a big company like google.
Hmm, I read every comment being negative then I read two actual reviews, Klepek and DF, and they were basically pretty dang positive. Just an example from DF:
That's an advantage I hadn't even really thought about but is probably something you need to experience to understand.
Klepeck talks about when staying at his parents he would always think about tossing a PS4 in his bag but never actually did. With Stadia there's no need. That's also pretty compelling.
The subpar IQ though, not compelling.
That's an advantage I hadn't even really thought about but is probably something you need to experience to understand.
Klepeck talks about when staying at his parents he would always think about tossing a PS4 in his bag but never actually did. With Stadia there's no need. That's also pretty compelling.
The subpar IQ though, not compelling.
Below... I played RDR2 on the X a year ago, at 4K30. Now they want me to buy the game at full price to play it at 1440p30. Just, no.
The folks who preordered and have been stanning hard for Stadia since it was revealed. Some folks here were really delusional about it and got into fighting words with anyone who expressed doubt about some of Google's claims and promises.
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What a baffling roll out, early access or not. I thought for sure with the lack of software, features, and availability that they'd at least be aggressive in showing off how Stadia offers a 'high-end PC/next-gen console experience" without the hardware investment. Otherwise what's the point?
"And what you lose in precision detail and latency, you gain in convenience."
I wouldn't say this is "dang positive" at all. Convenience means nothing if it doesn't work as advertised.
To me, it seems that the "4K Stadia" was not ready for launch and they are shipping the 1080p instead, but making the early adopters pay for it, lol.
Pretty scummy to sell 4K HDR as one of the top features and see games like Destiny and RDR2 running at a lower resolution.
Pretty scummy to sell 4K HDR as one of the top features and see games like Destiny and RDR2 running at a lower resolution.
Ultimately, I don't think that the streaming technology is materially better than what Gaikai and OnLive was peddling back in the day. It seems that your experience is heavily dependent on the quality of connection between you and Google's servers, which ultimately is something that's outside of Google's control (and honestly is outside of mostly off your control as well).
But how many games must the device render at the same time? And how much higher is the power consumption for Google if they render games at 4K instead of Full HD?
This is the single handed most damming thing that could have happened to stadia is getting BM to cancel.
It also strikes me as a little disingenuous to compare this to X1X, the pinnacle of console IQ. Most people will have a base Ps4 or Xbox where the IQ will be notably lower.
I wont say it IQ isn't a problem with Project Scarlett/PS5 coming though. I just think nothing necessarily has changed that IMO this could be pretty disruptive eventually. It's not the sort of thing that will happen overnight, but oneday a lot of people might notice they're mostly playing on Stadia without ever planning on it.
I wont say it IQ isn't a problem with Project Scarlett/PS5 coming though. I just think nothing necessarily has changed that IMO this could be pretty disruptive eventually. It's not the sort of thing that will happen overnight, but oneday a lot of people might notice they're mostly playing on Stadia without ever planning on it.
They do, but they might struggle to change it to anything else. Publishers could have signed up on the understanding that Stadia games would be a new channel for them to sell their games at standard prices, and might not be interested in Stadia suddenly pivoting to a subscription service. They also don't have the games library to create a competitive product yet, even if they do decide to make that pivot.
Isn't this about what we'd expect if the development priority was get the game working, and very little more?
(Plus it might be difficult for developers/publishers to budget the time needed to get a Stadia game running at 4K when they know it's just going to go through a compression routine that muddies it up anyway).
I thought Stadia instances were meant to be dedicated (no pooling of anything other than bandwidth, except for the presumably-currently-nonexistent stacked instances)?
Each stadia instance is supposedly exclusive to you. Not sure how they'll handle the multiple gpu thing though, not even sure if that tech is even working right now.
Let's Kill This Absurd "Google Will Just Shut Stadia Down" Meme
You see a lot of drive-by posts of this kind in any Stadia related topic. (A quick example but there are many.) It's become a meme -- but one with little backing. It's intellectually lazy and it's uninteresting. Why is anyone using Chrome? Shouldn't you use Firefox since Google could shut it...
www.resetera.com
They fucked themselves over, they knew what kind of garbage service they were working for. And since in particular Jade Raymond is a great producer with a load of success stories under her belt, it was not like she couldn't get another good job instead.
So we can assume his parents have high lightning-fast internet with no data cap then, I guess? Otherwise that PS4 still sounds like a better idea.
And sure, initial loading times and big-ass updates in games like RDR2 can suck, but I'd still prefer that to 60+ hours of technically sound gameplay instead of a having to worry about stream-related annoyances that could crop up any minute.
This stuff reminds me of OnLive back in the day. Anyways this sounds like a complete trainwreck. Service should not have launched in this poor of state. Google is only hurting themselves and credibility by doing so.
Latency-wise, I'm not sure how much better it currently *could* get. At least with xCloud, it seems you will have access to every game you already own, so you're not purchasing games all over again. That alone makes it much more appealing. Then add in game pass.
Hardly. I'm pretty sure most people reasonably expected you would see year+ old titles like Odyssey or Shadow at $29 or maybe $39. Even the stauntest Stadia detractors wouldn't have proposed $120 editions of old ass games or upscaled 1080p. These aspects are so preposterously stupid and out of touch that I would actually buy into truther level conspiracy theories that key Stadia decision makers and executives are actively trying to sabotage it...perhaps Sony cut Phil a massive check to torpedo it.
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Exactly. Mobile gaming is convenient. But also crap. And Google's PR has been about nextgen performance and more with no latency ontop of the convenience factor.
I've been super positive but at this point I'm not. I actually had my mouse pointer at the cancel preorder link... And I'm not alone. But I've decided to still try it out. It's just $140 and it's new tech. I won't buy any games unless I get free trials though.
