Sure, whatever you say. It's totally not a Founder's launch even though that's literally the only way you have access to the service in Nov. Man you're dense.
With less than a month left, let's place our bets: will Stadia be a success, or will it fail?
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Sure, whatever you say. It's totally not a Founder's launch even though that's literally the only way you have access to the service in Nov. Man you're dense.
You are making up a term that doesn't exist...just because that's the only way you can access the service doesn't make it a "founders launch"...go look at any article talking about Stadia's launch...
Oh better yet, let's see what Google says:
Google said:
Does it say anything about a "Founder's Launch"? No.
You are trying to make it sound like they have 2 launches...No, they don't. They have one launch and updates to the service. That is it.
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That's what's known in the game industry as a "soft launch", when they artificially restrict the number of people who can play for a time to make sure everything is working as expected, figure out how real people use a service/game so it can be tweaked for the mass-market, etc. This is not like launch shortages of consoles, because the developer made as many as they could and continue to release them, while Stadia clearly has a limited number of founders. Note how when they sold out of founder units, the "Premier Edition" that replaced it doesn't come with a buddy pass nor does it ship until sometime later than the Founder Editions; this is because they want to limit the number of people who play at the soft launch.
Normally a soft launch is held by limiting purchasers to a certain small country (often New Zealand), since that's an easy way to restrict it, but Google couldn't do that because the service depends on close proximity to their servers.
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Its obviously a beta launch, strangely a beta were first adopters have to pay for.
Anyway Google probably doesn't want to many people for this at the beginning, because the whole concept will show its weakness when many people at once want to play in the evening and not equally distributed over the day. They would need practically a "gaming pc hardware" ready for every user, or just reduce image quality when many users at once want to play.
If the only people who can play it on Nov. 19 are founders then its a founders launch. Don't be ridiculous. You acting like it's a full launch when the overwhelming majority of people have no access to it is just ignorant.
It's a soft launch...for founders. You getting all hung up on semantics and pissy because you can't understand that isn't my problem.
Thank you, jesus, it's not rocket science. Dude's being intentionally obtuse.
Most Google projects that are killed last 4-8 years, not two. Even total flops, like the recent Google Clips camera - that one isn't having its support terminated until December 2021.
Honestly a bunch come to personal mind, yes. From hardware specifically, the Google TV set top box. I had several that died on the vine with exceptionally poor support. I'd venture to say that Valve has better hardware support than Google, in my experience.
I don't believe the US (or the West in general for that matter) has the Internet infrastructure to support gaming via streaming. Maybe one day but that day/future isn't the present.
Aside from the US, what other major market dues not offer unlimited internet of at least 35mbps?
Obviously rural areas almost everywhere will fall into that category as well
So like those obnoxious mobile games that force you to play a demo for 30 seconds? I wanna vomit.
Stadia will be line VR. People will say it's a major step technologically, but they'll get over it leaving a small fanbase
