if you want to stream it at 4k - yesJust to clarify, since I don't totally get what I'm reading on other sites:
I have to pay for the streaming service, and then pay to buy a license for the game I want to stream?
Is that really what they showed? Because why the hell would I pay for that? PS Now or Xbox Game Pass sound like a way better deal in comparison.
You buy the games individually and then after that you either use the basic free service to play them with 1080p streaming and nothing else beyond that or pay for the Pro subscription with the given fee and therefor enable 4k streaming and offers like free games and special Pro only discounts a la PSN/XBL.Just to clarify, since I don't totally get what I'm reading on other sites:
I have to pay for the streaming service, and then pay to buy a license for the game I want to stream?
Is that really what they showed? Because why the hell would I pay for that? PS Now or Xbox Game Pass sound like a way better deal in comparison.
That is dumb as hell.if you want to stream it at 4k - yes
apparently there will be a "free" version that will only stream at 1080p (but you still have to buy some of those new games)
Excuse me, what?
it is, yes ... very much soThat is dumb as hell.
oh ... it definitely is a jokeDeep down, I want to think this is all a big joke.
exactly!I'd still prefer having the games on my machine to mod and customize and speed-hack and etc.
I don't think that's true at all.It could have worked as a Netflix like streaming service and not fucking OnLive 2.
There is no target demographic for this it's completely awful. We allrdy have better services with Game Pass, Origin Access even PSNow which allows downloading of games now on PS4 (and offers much more content as a streaming service) Stadia can't even begin to compete with them. Nvidia's streaming service is much better as well since i can play whatever i want on it.
You don't know that and that's not what ppl who actually tried the service reported, it's impressive for streaming yes but it can't really compete with the same game running locally on pc/consoles. Some people seem to expect miracles from this and it won't happen.I don't think that's true at all.
In a years time you're going to see Stadia boxes for, what, $100 (regular chromecast + controller) going head to head with a, what, $500? PS5 and neXtBox with basically all the same games outside of exclusives, and with no crappy 'pay us more to play online' subscription on top of that.
The games won't look any worse than they do on the much more expensive boxes.
The only mitigating thing about Google's servers is that they (along with Microsoft) are trying to push the tech forward in environmentally friendly and sustainable ways (i.e., underwater and seawater cooled data centers). Which means, theoretically, if they polish the tech up, their servers should be pretty hugely scalable.I’m impressed with the WiFi controller. Maybe someone will hack it so it works on LAN. Imagine using Steam Link across several devices and not having to pair the controller each time?
But streaming sucks other than that. Google wants to have a Big Data solution to video games, but I always remember what Gabe Newell said about streaming services being a victim of their own success, and if Stadia takes off I think this’ll ring true.
Imagine having to wait in a queue to play a game because peak hours have surpassed the capacity Google is willing to spend on servers?
Streaming, to me, feels like a feature and not a platform.
I mean, this is where Google are somewhat uniquely placed to be able to offer this; they have elements of their business that benefit from both GPUs and CPUs, and Stadia servers are using standard PC server architectures (in contrast to MSs offering, which are using actual Xbox hardware server blades, and are never going to be any good at doing anything an Xbox cannot do). If they have redundant GPU time on servers, those can be used for hardware accelerated Youtube upload converting, or image processing machine learning tasks. If they have redundant CPU time on servers that can be used for their traditional server tasks.But streaming sucks other than that. Google wants to have a Big Data solution to video games, but I always remember what Gabe Newell said about streaming services being a victim of their own success, and if Stadia takes off I think this’ll ring true.
Imagine having to wait in a queue to play a game because peak hours have surpassed the capacity Google is willing to spend on servers?
Streaming, to me, feels like a feature and not a platform.
It is limited but I have zero idea how limited.This will be me in a month. Hopefully it's not limited.