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It would be great if it works tho.
no more hardware upgrade.
no more console generations.
no more loss of game saves.
no more upgrade hardware in your pc or console.
no more unable to play old games.
however
companies will have you tied and pay forever, don’t subscribe, lose everything.
you no longer own anything, rent everything.
can’t lend or borrow games.
can’t sell your old games.
can’t play it everywhere.
i can see why they do it, it gives them a consistent source of income and there is no spike and dips in their profit and loss. Shareholders like that.
however I like physical media but I can see the advantages of this, if it’s cheap enough like £10 a month, it’s the cost of 2 games A year so that will pay for itself for most people.
FWIW here in the UAE I have supposed 50Mbps internet but I never get a ping below 100 so almost anything online is pointless
This is it - I play call of duty on WiFi with reasonably fast broadband but with a ping that hovers around the high to very high mark. It just makes games... Inconsistent at best, and dreadful at worst.
Looking forward to wiring it in ..
As Stadia is planned as a subscription service I’d be surprised if they aren’t offering a 30 day free trial at least when it launches so i’ll give it a go, not expecting much for it though.
If Google can make it work then I think it'll be great but my experience with Playstation Now makes me think we just don't have the infrastructure to support it yet.
Giants will be created, much as with Uber in the taxi industry, and AirB&B in the hotel industry.
The games industry is very worried about this recent turn of events. They’ve seen how the move to streaming has dramatically changed the music industry and impacted the revenue to creators.
I’ve believed for some time that that the move to streaming is inevitable. I believe that devices will get dumber in time, as all information will be cloud based. It makes more sense to create one game and stream versions of it that are receiving device compatible than to create many different specific versions for various devices. I also believe that the next console ( PS5) etc will possibly be that last of traditional consoles as we know it, and games will become digital delivery only, which will have a dratic effect on retail. But it’s inevitable, nobody cares about digital only on mobile.
Problems.
All of these problems will be solved in time, but gameplay will not be transferable from system to system, so if you want to play online with mates, you’ll need to join the same system as your friends.
Ping rates. Streaming adds about 7ms of ping (best case) to your existing ping rates. If you have a good ping, then fine, but if not, games will play terribly.
Solo racing games work well, but multiplayer games like Fifa are a nightmare, as it’s multiple pings ontop of your ping. It’s almost unplayable, plus EA’s servers are crap!
Another issue is Virgin Media. They’re historically a cable based service, so the way they package up data is different to the likes of BT. You need more packets from Virgin than you do from BT based services, so this adds more lag and ping. Virgin will need to do some serious tweaking to their service to get a service working well for their customers.
Long term, the majority of people will play games like this, with only hardcore gamers using dedicated hardware. Much like serious hifi fans still like Vinyl and CD’s while the majority use Spotify and Apple Music etc.
It’s mass market, not niche market.
Will be crap at first, but the big boys have the money to make this work.
Got 5 coming (family account)
The infrastructure behind it at google is very impressive however.
It seems to work reasonably well, certainly better than I expected. Audio was a bit iffy at times and had the occasional stutter and one freeze on the video. My broadband is being temperamental today so I'll reserve final judgment until that settles down.
Biggest issue is the games library. There's nothing included with the subscription that I'm that keen to play and I don't want to pay full price for games when I'm paying for the subscription. Think Google need to have a look at home Microsoft are doing the Xbox game pass.