Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "RIP Google Stadia" video.

  1. Wouldn't have made a lick of difference. It had a bad rollout with inconsistent performance, some people had several seconds of input lag while others had a "satisfactory" performance. Paying for the games instead of being true streaming also hindered the service because people would have to buy a game twice.
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  2. It needs to be, as a warning. GaaS is hell.
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  3. It's a "bad" idea in the sense that it is affected by internet latency and while Google has the money to issue refunds, if anyone else tried it they'd go bankrupt and all the games would be useless after people paid for them.
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  4. More of a cloud service really, there was no "console".
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  5. It's cheaper to develop games for local hardware than building the infrastructure for streamed games as 100% of the market. It's just physics.
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  6. Exactly. Any game developed to require more power than local hardware has available will cost too much and take too long to develop.
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  7. How is it the future of gaming? It's inferior by any metric.
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  8. The problem is that we'll also have more powerful hardware, AI assisted development and upscaling, etc. so we'll have no need to run things in the cloud. More bandwidth doesn't fix latency either, the only way to fix it is running multiple copies of the game with AI predicted button presses and then only show the "correct" guesses to the player.
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  9. Except that it's easier to just optimize games to run on potato hardware and use AI upscaling to increase quality. There's simply no game developed for 8 year old 4000 USD pcs let alone 1 year old 4000 USD pcs. Console hardware is also becoming architecturally similar to PC hardware so finally console optimization will help PCs. Brutally demanding games cost more to produce and require longer dev cycles so the business side itself will never move to a point where cloud computing benefits gamers. And if it did, bandwidth requirements would again increase to keep up with the visual detail required.
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  10. Google refused to address the criticism or acted with arrogance in response to concerns. It simply seemed like they were trying to break into the gaming industry without having to prove their worth to gamers.
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