Arguing that Stadia is going to fail because people don't have good internet is like saying Snickers will fail because some people have nut allergies.
Yes, some people do, but a lot of people don't. Google doesn't need to make Stadia available to everyone; just enough to make their service profitable. Sony, MS and Nintendo all make profits and they rarely sell over 100 million units each generation. There's definitely more people than that with Internet connection good enough to run Stadia.
Very few people have internet good enough to stream a game at 1080p and 60 FPS with out horribly noticeable input lag, user. Not to mention the vast majority of people in America are being fucked by their local telecomm monopoly, and even if they do have a strong enough line to play a Stadia, they're sure as fuck not going to be happy when they get their bill for going over their data cap.
ok but talking about google cloud garbage is irrelevant
Google fibre failed because they couldn't build out the infrastructure because it wasn't popular enough in the regions they DID have it in to justify the expense. Stadia requires a massive edge datacentre to get low latency near every major tier2 ISP. This will fail for the same reason google fibre failed.
>some people
MOST people do not have the internet needed for that stuff.
You have mistaken
>Everyone has internet
for
>Everyone has good internet
Most people don't need good internet for anything and thus don't have it. They get the bare minimum that allows Youtube videos to load fast and that's it
The global average Internet speed is 11.05 Mbps. that's more than enough to stream at 1080p.
And data caps are only an issue in the US. The rest of the world let the free market force the ISPs to compete with each other instead of giving them monopolies.
word, you aren't poor/bad Internet are you
most people own either a pc or a ps4, or both by now.
Nobody wants stupid spyware shit for the sake of minor convenience, did you miss XB1's launch or something?
Google fiber failed because of the ISP monopolies the US government allows to operate.
Google themselves recommend 25 Mbps. Google is an American company. They need American users.
I'm pretty sure my whole town is just shit out of luck.
The Xbox One was asking for $500 upfront and failed to justify any of it's always online policies beyond nebulous "power of the cloud" promises.
Stadia has no buy in price; you can just try it and has shown features that can ONLY be done via cloud computing.
>The global average Internet speed is 11.05 Mbps. that's more than enough to stream at 1080p.
And how close will the Stadia centers be to those places? You're not going to stream a game from Silicon Valley to Brazil, are you?
Also 3rd worlders have some really cheap fucking internet, but do you think they'd pay for a streaming service when piracy and bootlegging is a huge part of their culture and even the normies there do it?
Speed != Latency
There was noticeable input lag in their own demo on their own network, in optimal conditions. It'll only get worse from there.
>Requires 25Mb/s to play
>You don't own the games you buy
>Probably gonna be expensive af AND will need a subscription
That's a big no for me and I bet anything you want it's gonna be a flop
It's more comparable to making a candy bar that gives an allergic reaction to everyone except people with peanut allergies.
Wasn't streaming games talked about years ago and went nowhere?
but cloud computing is fucking cancer.
We have consumer grade hardware that's futureproof for at least a decade.
My 1070ti is going to run everything on the market until at least 2025 because consoles are still, and will continue to be fucking cheapo shitboxes.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY MS OF INPUT LAG
LITERALLY DOA FOR ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES QUICK REACTION
Google has data centers all over the world. Stuff like OnLive and even PSNow are tinpot operations in comparison to the infrastructure of Google.
As for piracy; even pirated games require buying the hardware the game runs on. Stadia will run on any device.
>Arguing that Stadia is going to fail because people don't have good internet is like saying Snickers will fail because some people have nut allergies.
I'm more amazed that you wrote this with a straight face and thought it was a smart food analogy.
>Google doesn't need to make Stadia available to everyone; just enough to make their service profitable.
They do, though. Stadia is being aimed at a gaming market, and not the one who plays whatever kind of free shit on their phones or tablets, but actual consumers who play both long single and multiplayer games, who already know for a fact how important reaction times and framerate are. If someone has a good specs PC, they'll stay with what they know best instead of having to deal with an unstable streaming service; if someone has a phone or a tablet, they have to hope their device will be able to play said games, otherwise they'd be in the need of upgrading, meaning spending several hundreds on either a new phone/tablet or a new phone plan with their favorite company. Meanwhile console players won't give two shits about it, other than those not knowing any better. Even those who only use their console as a Fortnite machine would rather stick to what they have instead of spending a monthly fee on a subpar service.
And one last thing: Stadia is meant to be used on a 100% stable internet connection, which can only be realistically possible if you live completely alone and the only service you're using at that moment is Stadia. As soon as someone decides to watch a Facebook video on their phone, your gameplay is fucked, this means that the service will be an absolute disaster for those living with families or roommates who frequent the use of Netflix or Youtube. Now fuck off and go shill somewhere else.
can't wait for the Crowbcat video to get 1 billion views when this comes out
And yet even their demo had latency issues. Can't wait to see how it goes when you're trying to stream from a state or even country away.
>BUT ITS CHEAPEEERRR
You can buy a used PS4/XBone for $100 bucks and it'll last you until the next gen. Even if Stadia is $10 a month, which is a very cheap guess, it's still more expensive.
>Google is an American company. They need American users.
you can't possibly be that retarded, can you ? just a reminder that your shithole is only 1/25 of world's population.
>Even those who only use their console as a Fortnite machine would rather stick to what they have instead of spending a monthly fee on a subpar service.
They already pay a monthly subscription for a subpar service; it's called PS+ and Xbox Gold. The difference with Stadia is they're not asking for and the up front $3-400 investment of the hardware.
>always online.
>controller has a built-in microphone that most likely can't be disabled.
>you don't get to own jack shit, Google owns you and your account.
>the controller itself connects to the Google servers, this means there will be delay with your input being sent to their server, and there will also be delay with the streamed image coming on your client.
>no mod support.
>a help button when you get stuck somewhere, making zoomers even more dumber
though I love reading third worlders comments on youtube thinking this shit is MAGIC that will make them able to play the latest rehashed ubisoft cashgrab.
>google shills openly expressing anti-american sentiments
really makes you think
Fuck off, shill.
>OP starts thread with a terrible, not at all equivalent food analogy
Is it a Yea Forums curse?
physical consoles will never die because they make money. google is foolish for not realizing this.
Not a lot of games actually need that nowadays, and very few publishers care more about user experience than DRM
Penis
Look at that crisp fifteen frames per second. That's the kind of streaming quality you should expect from a company like Google.
No, instead they're asking for the up front $6-700 investment for a new phone or tablet if their current device is not supported, as they already stated that only "selected devices will be available".
And at least Xbox already has their Game Pass which is a superior service for the simple fact that you have to install the game in your console, meaning loading the game from the same console, meaning not having to deal with bullshit 1 second button delays. Game streaming is never picking up and only people like you are actually deluded enough to think it will be gamechanging to the industry. Actually, scratch that, it will be gamechanging to the industry because companies will finally realize how stupid it is to invest time and resources on game streaming.
>entire compaign about gaming for EVERYONEEEEE and EVERYWHEREEEEE WEEEEEEE
actually not everyone and everywhere.
Some more
>Unknown launch in any country in Asia
>Saying he wasn't a gamer was the worst thing he could've said, like if Elon musk said he didn't know jackshit about card and just rides a bus
>The youtube save files willl cause some trouble
>Getting banned online will turn it into a paper weight
>Long as hell games and Competive games are unplayable
>The fact this thing must sell ungodly well for devs to make a real profit
>Playtesters call it "playable"
the ad was just investor bait anyway, nothing but buzzwords