And that sucks and can be frustrating, but you do still have access to non-streaming gaming, don't you?
I'm sorry not every service or product you may or may not care about isn't tailored to your needs and current tech situation.
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Venturebeat: Google Stadia’s data use is over 100MB per minute at 1080p
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I'm sorry not every service or product you may or may not care about isn't tailored to your needs and current tech situation.
That's just being sillyly pedantic. That's like calling streaming on Netflix downloading. Whilst at a technical level you're always downloading bytes, at a consumer level streaming and downloading are different things.
That's on the low end. If you're playing in "4K" it's closer to 20GB/h. That shit adds up quick especially if you're taking the full plunge and putting 3-5 hours a day into Stadia.
You could reasonably take issue with the console part too, given that it requires a chromecast, and takes up a USB slot on your TV as well as power socket. When is a console not a console?
yes true and also higher frame rates demand even more........forgot that this is just low end. Damn you could download most games in a matter of 3 hours of use
Stadia...doesnt appeal to anyone outside of those who like the novelty factor and paying more for more restrictions
I still think this tech arrived way too early. The important piece to this streaming future, is to get U.S. Legislation involved in cable company area monopoly (i.e. Comcast cock-blocking Verizon, Google and Century Link in various areas) so people have access to better and faster service. Data caps are also still a thing for people in the U.S.
I hope this won't make things bad like changes on pricing or forced data cap on ISP's in the future.
Another problem is some ISP say you have unlimited on entry level plans in Europe for example and nearly every case no one will test the real limit but some do and get a warning call to pay for a premium tier or business line. The untold limit is way higher than the crazy low data caps in the US but regular play with Stadia could see you get flagged.
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Don't expect it to be less, streaming high quality video eats up a lot of data, especially at 60 frames.
See now if Google Fiber rolled out in more places this would be great but when you have to deal with Time Warner and Comcast monopolies this service is DOA.
Could have used all that money spent on this to expand Google Fiber to all of us in need of better ISP
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Except it doesn't. I've been playing on my Chrome browser while "listening" to my online course on the other monitor
See, this is why Stardia isn't remotely conceivable for me, even if it were the most anticipated console of my life.
And not everyone has limited internet.
Always these same posts in these threads as if it were impossible to succeed because not everyone can use it.
I highly doubt that most people are going to be using most of their monthly data each month just for streaming games.
And even if they have unlimited data, phone & ISP companies will throttle your speeds after a certain amount.
4k video streaming is about 14GB an hour, it's not like this is some new event for ISP's
Caps and throttling in 2019 lul , love my unlimited never throttled gigabit for $50 a month. Still have zero interest in stadia, lack of crossplay biggest issue for me, well that and the pricing structure
Um, people who have rent/mortgages & bills to pay, along with buying groceries & having kids to take care of & feed (if they happen to have any)?
That's a ton of people. Not just in this country (the US).
Even if you have an uncapped data plan, they'll still throttle your ass over a certain amount and not tell you until you complain and then it magically starts working again.
I have expendable income and would gladly pay for unlimited, but it literally is not an option where I live. The kicker? I live in Seattle. My building just has one provider.
The issue isn't just cost. It's a complete lack of options.
What a naive question. A lot of people do. The Time Warner Cable and Charter merger only happened if they agreed to not implement data caps for seven years. There are less than four years left on that deal assuming nothing changes. I would bet good money once their time is up data caps will be introduced.
I know that. But don't think that other countries are immune to this, either. It'll affect them, too.
Like other posters have mentioned, unlimited data isn't really unlimited.
I have fiber and no cap. I use about a terabyte a month now. I kind of want to get this just to see how much bandwidth I could use in a month... I could easily hit a petabyte.
So this shit is DOA in the states, which means it's basically dead everywhere. Comcast isn't here for this.
What, through your TV? Even my Android TV doesn't support Stadia without chromecast.
According to this:
only 17% of US households have a data cap and 21% are not sure and 62% don't have one ...
And i never had my data capped in 20 years in Germany.
Unlimited is unlimited in NZ because we don't let major corporations control us
So you're saying excessive use wouldn't get you throttled? Because I have a hard time believing that.
Depends on plan but ones like mine never throttle. $50 nzd a month so around 26 USD for unlimited never throttled gigabit
This. And posters on this site want streaming over physical media & digital for gaming?
Streaming gaming isn't the same as streaming music, TV shows & movies.
While it's good news, not everyone are as lucky.
hmmm....a one time download of 40+ish GB of data vs 100+GB of data and beyond via streaming...
decisions, decisions....
People outside of America, in places like NZ and Australia (and probably others I don't know about).
I know lots of people that have capped data, I only got unlimited recently and I pay through the nose for it.
Yeah, Australia in particular used to be notorious for shitty speeds and absurdly caps.
I mean, I don't think that gaming makes sense for streaming yet either, but software in general is going *extremely* hard into what is effectively a streaming model with SaaS.