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Who would actually use Stadia? Who is their target audience? This just seems like a big failure waiting to happen.
I think that's the crux of it. Maybe it's not for "gamers" but for regular people who sometimes want to play something. Additionally, aren't there issues with streaming these types of games or have those been corrected?
Why not buy PS or Xbox then? Or even Switch.
Again, how much is the cost?
If one already has a pc and wants to try some video games, and a streaming service is only a few dollars per month then why would one want to buy a console?
But it really goes back to "who" is this for. Would somone who doesn't normally play video games even know about these games? Or maybe it's for people who are just curious or see one game and want to play it and would rather not spend money buying them.
Too many questions.
You guys are forgetting the most important bit: Chromebooks as well as some Android tablets and the Pixel 2, 3 or 4 will let you play RDR2 and Cyberpunk 2077 using Stadia.
The system requirements are as low as they can possibly get. If you can watch video streams with your rig you can play any cutting edge PC game they offer.
Then I would say "that's the audience." People who are very casual, who don't want to buy a console, who are curious about this game or that, who don't need "50 games" on a service.
There are working poor and students out there for whom a console + TV would be a luxury but the cheapest laptop they can get their hands on is a necessity. The students with Chromebooks especially could be a big part of their market and if they adopt it, it'll be the next cool thing.
I don't know, when I was a poor student I hardly had time to play, and I would even have less have money to spend on a sub, but when I was working and then going to college still I had my end of the night playing aion.
also take note a "cheap" laptop here where I live would cost well over thousand, with by the time I could build a decent PC to run some games, mostly snes emulator and then psx emulator
Its kind of a huge deal where once you needed a +1000 dollar gaming rig, you can now play on a chromebook or tablet. Im very curious to see how stadia handles lag sensitive games like mortal kombat and its other fighting games. Even dropping 1 frame in those is significant.
Fun! Not only you pay full price for the games, but you are actually only renting them!
Gamers are so gullible.
According to them you don' pay full price for the games. You pay 9.99 per month. For some reason there is also a $69 controller. Does one "need" that controller to play these games?
There seems to be a "Stadia Pro" service but the article I read said that if people didn't want that they could wait fo the service to "roll around" on tables/pc's later in 2020.
So, where are you getting that?
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Its kind of a huge deal where once you needed a +1000 dollar gaming rig, you can now play on a chromebook or tablet. Im very curious to see how stadia handles lag sensitive games like mortal kombat and its other fighting games. Even dropping 1 frame in those is significant.
It is not about framerate, the framerate will be fine. It is more about input lag. It will be more like you are lagging in an MMO, but all the time. The reality is most people have played / can run these games just fine. You can get all these games already for cheaper on other platforms (with the exception of Destiny 2 obviously). The casual gamer (Who stadia is targeting) only cares about price, not about whether a game runs at 4k 60 fps or not.
Fun! Not only you pay full price for the games, but you are actually only renting them!
Gamers are so gullible.
According to them you don' pay full price for the games. You pay 9.99 per month. For some reason there is also a $69 controller. Does one "need" that controller to play these games?
There seems to be a "Stadia Pro" service but the article I read said that if people didn't want that they could wait fo the service to "roll around" on tables/pc's later in 2020.
So, where are you getting that?
Check out their actual service. You get 1 game (D2) you can play when it launches for $9.95 a month. You have to buy the other titles they are offering @ full price. How is that a deal?
Its kind of a huge deal where once you needed a +1000 dollar gaming rig, you can now play on a chromebook or tablet. Im very curious to see how stadia handles lag sensitive games like mortal kombat and its other fighting games. Even dropping 1 frame in those is significant.
It is not about framerate, the framerate will be fine. It is more about input lag. It will be more like you are lagging in an MMO, but all the time. The reality is most people have played / can run these games just fine. You can get all these games already for cheaper on other platforms (with the exception of Destiny 2 obviously). The casual gamer (Who stadia is targeting) only cares about price, not about whether a game runs at 4k 60 fps or not.
If it matches the input lag of XCloud then I think it will be great. I'm expecting better though.
Who would actually use Stadia? Who is their target audience? This just seems like a big failure waiting to happen.
I think that's the crux of it. Maybe it's not for "gamers" but for regular people who sometimes want to play something. Additionally, aren't there issues with streaming these types of games or have those been corrected?
Why not buy PS or Xbox then? Or even Switch.
Again, how much is the cost?
If one already has a pc and wants to try some video games, and a streaming service is only a few dollars per month then why would one want to buy a console?
But it really goes back to "who" is this for. Would somone who doesn't normally play video games even know about these games? Or maybe it's for people who are just curious or see one game and want to play it and would rather not spend money buying them.
Too many questions.
You guys are forgetting the most important bit: Chromebooks as well as some Android tablets and the Pixel 2, 3 or 4 will let you play RDR2 and Cyberpunk 2077 using Stadia.
The system requirements are as low as they can possibly get. If you can watch video streams with your rig you can play any cutting edge PC game they offer.
That could the a target audience, but the network requirements for Stadia are 20Mb/s (minimum), while a video stream can be watched at 500kb/s.
Would be useful for home setup, but would not work outside (at least until 5G, which is still an unknown trend due to health risks).
Stadia mostly feels like a solution in need of a problem.
It used to be interesting when Google did these kind of things. Now it is likely just another thing to half bake and leave to hang dry.
Would have been a nice complementary service to go with Google Fiber, but... half baked and hung to dry. Now it has to run on someone else's network in most cases and those someones are prone to try to throttle any streaming services they do not own or profit from themselves. Most of those someones in the US also like data caps.
Who would actually use Stadia? Who is their target audience? This just seems like a big failure waiting to happen.
I think that's the crux of it. Maybe it's not for "gamers" but for regular people who sometimes want to play something. Additionally, aren't there issues with streaming these types of games or have those been corrected?
Why not buy PS or Xbox then? Or even Switch.
Again, how much is the cost?
If one already has a pc and wants to try some video games, and a streaming service is only a few dollars per month then why would one want to buy a console?
But it really goes back to "who" is this for. Would somone who doesn't normally play video games even know about these games? Or maybe it's for people who are just curious or see one game and want to play it and would rather not spend money buying them.
Too many questions.
You guys are forgetting the most important bit: Chromebooks as well as some Android tablets and the Pixel 2, 3 or 4 will let you play RDR2 and Cyberpunk 2077 using Stadia.
The system requirements are as low as they can possibly get. If you can watch video streams with your rig you can play any cutting edge PC game they offer.
Then I would say "that's the audience." People who are very casual, who don't want to buy a console, who are curious about this game or that, who don't need "50 games" on a service.
There are working poor and students out there for whom a console + TV would be a luxury but the cheapest laptop they can get their hands on is a necessity. The students with Chromebooks especially could be a big part of their market and if they adopt it, it'll be the next cool thing.
For the price difference of paying for Stadia and a better Internet connection, you could likely just get a gaming desktop and have a far superior gaming experience with a lot more game options.
Even if you can get a game to display on a tablet, why would you? Does your tablet have a keyboard and mouse? Does it even have as many buttons as a controller? For a cheap laptop, I could kind of understand it, as you have a keyboard and can plug in a mouse.
Fun! Not only you pay full price for the games, but you are actually only renting them!
Gamers are so gullible.
This doesn't prove that gamers are gullible unless they actually buy it. Sometimes markets work how you'd hope in theory and bad products get broadly ignored. That's how it worked for OnLive, for example. Or, famously, the Ford Edsel.
Who would actually use Stadia? Who is their target audience? This just seems like a big failure waiting to happen.
I think that's the crux of it. Maybe it's not for "gamers" but for regular people who sometimes want to play something. Additionally, aren't there issues with streaming these types of games or have those been corrected?
Why not buy PS or Xbox then? Or even Switch.
Again, how much is the cost?
If one already has a pc and wants to try some video games, and a streaming service is only a few dollars per month then why would one want to buy a console?
But it really goes back to "who" is this for. Would somone who doesn't normally play video games even know about these games? Or maybe it's for people who are just curious or see one game and want to play it and would rather not spend money buying them.
Too many questions.
You guys are forgetting the most important bit: Chromebooks as well as some Android tablets and the Pixel 2, 3 or 4 will let you play RDR2 and Cyberpunk 2077 using Stadia.
The system requirements are as low as they can possibly get. If you can watch video streams with your rig you can play any cutting edge PC game they offer.
Then I would say "that's the audience." People who are very casual, who don't want to buy a console, who are curious about this game or that, who don't need "50 games" on a service.
There are working poor and students out there for whom a console + TV would be a luxury but the cheapest laptop they can get their hands on is a necessity. The students with Chromebooks especially could be a big part of their market and if they adopt it, it'll be the next cool thing.
For the price difference of paying for Stadia and a better Internet connection, you could likely just get a gaming desktop and have a far superior gaming experience with a lot more game options.
Even if you can get a game to display on a tablet, why would you? Does your tablet have a keyboard and mouse? Does it even have as many buttons as a controller? For a cheap laptop, I could kind of understand it, as you have a keyboard and can plug in a mouse.
Oh I agree. I think the "play it on Android tablets and even Pixel phones!" is just Google showing off.
But I know from recent experience with my son and now my daughter in university that a lot of their friends have no TVs - they watch everything on their PCs - but they all have laptops for school and free (or highly subsidized) high speed internet on campus and wifi at home is a priority for them.
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
― Umberto Eco
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?” ― CD PROJEKT RED
Who would actually use Stadia? Who is their target audience? This just seems like a big failure waiting to happen.
I think that's the crux of it. Maybe it's not for "gamers" but for regular people who sometimes want to play something. Additionally, aren't there issues with streaming these types of games or have those been corrected?
I wouldn't call corrected, they said the controls would work like it would predicted the way you play the game and then do the move before you did to fix the lag issues, aka its like auto aim, with anyone who know how to play turn off because that thing make you lose headshots
plus come on, the public its stadia was supose to aim is not really gamers, they could put game like candy crusher and it would be the aim.
its like the cellphone games, why I would play a single player game online if I can do so offline and without the lag?
you could call it fix a problem then never existed
Anyone else thinking their resources would've been better spent creating their own version of Bluestacks/Nox that has no risk of compromising your account cause those are third party program(s) used by many to play almost EVERY popular/ top seller game on the Google play store.
It also seems like the list of playable games went through some type of quality control standard set by Google. There are no games by specific developers which makes me think that Stadia is just their way of getting into that Steam/Epic/Blizz game selling biz more than providing a new type of service. Wouldn't be surprised to see in a year they say they will give up on streaming service cause it didn't work out but will continue to just sell PC games in the "Stadia" store.
Who would actually use Stadia? Who is their target audience? This just seems like a big failure waiting to happen.
I think that's the crux of it. Maybe it's not for "gamers" but for regular people who sometimes want to play something. Additionally, aren't there issues with streaming these types of games or have those been corrected?
I wouldn't call corrected, they said the controls would work like it would predicted the way you play the game and then do the move before you did to fix the lag issues, aka its like auto aim, with anyone who know how to play turn off because that thing make you lose headshots
plus come on, the public its stadia was supose to aim is not really gamers, they could put game like candy crusher and it would be the aim.
its like the cellphone games, why I would play a single player game online if I can do so offline and without the lag?
you could call it fix a problem then never existed
Anyone else thinking their resources would've been better spent creating their own version of Bluestacks/Nox that has no risk of compromising your account cause those are third party program(s) used by many to play almost EVERY popular/ top seller game on the Google play store.
It also seems like the list of playable games went through some type of quality control standard set by Google. There are no games by specific developers which makes me think that Stadia is just their way of getting into that Steam/Epic/Blizz game selling biz more than providing a new type of service. Wouldn't be surprised to see in a year they say they will give up on streaming service cause it didn't work out but will continue to just sell PC games in the "Stadia" store.
Google is a big enough company to work on more than one project at a time. In fact, they're quite capable of simultaneously working on dozens of projects that will all be dead on arrival, and some of which will never even make it to a public launch.
The only folks I would see using this are people with really old laptops and no console.
I have a PS4 , Xbox one X and a gaming PC. I pre-ordered Stadia and am looking forward to it.
It is more than just another way to play games. Do a little research.
Not only that.. no more hardware costs.. Ever.
Until you decide that you'd like to play a game that isn't on their short list. Or realize that thin clients don't actually work very well. Or that your Internet access is a form of hardware costs.
There are working poor and students out there for whom a console + TV would be a luxury but the cheapest laptop they can get their hands on is a necessity. The students with Chromebooks especially could be a big part of their market and if they adopt it, it'll be the next cool thing.
Have they released any pricing details for the games?
Because if it's more than $10-20 you are going to end up spending vastly more on Stadia (especially per game) than you would on a second-hand console (or cheap PC) and a cheap TV, and shopping around for games that are on sale (if not outright F2P; e.g. Path of Exile, Warframe).
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― CD PROJEKT RED
I don't know, when I was a poor student I hardly had time to play, and I would even have less have money to spend on a sub, but when I was working and then going to college still I had my end of the night playing aion.
also take note a "cheap" laptop here where I live would cost well over thousand, with by the time I could build a decent PC to run some games, mostly snes emulator and then psx emulator
I'm looking forward to trying it. Microsoft's XCloud is really close based on my testing. I expect Google to be a touch better.
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Gamers are so gullible.
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There seems to be a "Stadia Pro" service but the article I read said that if people didn't want that they could wait fo the service to "roll around" on tables/pc's later in 2020.
So, where are you getting that?
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That could the a target audience, but the network requirements for Stadia are 20Mb/s (minimum), while a video stream can be watched at 500kb/s.
Would be useful for home setup, but would not work outside (at least until 5G, which is still an unknown trend due to health risks).
It used to be interesting when Google did these kind of things. Now it is likely just another thing to half bake and leave to hang dry.
Would have been a nice complementary service to go with Google Fiber, but... half baked and hung to dry. Now it has to run on someone else's network in most cases and those someones are prone to try to throttle any streaming services they do not own or profit from themselves. Most of those someones in the US also like data caps.
Even if you can get a game to display on a tablet, why would you? Does your tablet have a keyboard and mouse? Does it even have as many buttons as a controller? For a cheap laptop, I could kind of understand it, as you have a keyboard and can plug in a mouse.
But I know from recent experience with my son and now my daughter in university that a lot of their friends have no TVs - they watch everything on their PCs - but they all have laptops for school and free (or highly subsidized) high speed internet on campus and wifi at home is a priority for them.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Anyone else thinking their resources would've been better spent creating their own version of Bluestacks/Nox that has no risk of compromising your account cause those are third party program(s) used by many to play almost EVERY popular/ top seller game on the Google play store.
It also seems like the list of playable games went through some type of quality control standard set by Google. There are no games by specific developers which makes me think that Stadia is just their way of getting into that Steam/Epic/Blizz game selling biz more than providing a new type of service. Wouldn't be surprised to see in a year they say they will give up on streaming service cause it didn't work out but will continue to just sell PC games in the "Stadia" store.
It is more than just another way to play games. Do a little research.
Not only that.. no more hardware costs.. Ever.
Also, perhaps, in the future a person would not want any extra hardware, just one big tv that can do it all.
Plus, if someone told you ten years ago, lets make a platform so people can watch other people play video games, what wou guys have said?
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