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Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service by eropple on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:40PM (#19434070)
I'm not super sure, anymore, about latency being as big a deal. Particularly with regards to monitors. Display lag on a large TV can be upwards of 50ms by itself; display lag on a monitor can be as low as 5ms. If you're viewing this as a competitor to low-end, relatively lightweight console play, the total lag of display plus network is actually maybe not that bad. Also, living in Boston I was seeing 16ms pings on Google's service when I tried it out, which might be an adoption factor. 16ms plus a monitor's display lag is going to be competitive with most HDTVs.

That level of lag definitely makes some games implausible. (Part of why I bought a big-ass OLED is that newer TVs, but particularly OLEDs, seem to have generally consistent display lag; being able to play Tekken 7 on a 55" screen with only 21ms of lag is nice, but to do it on my old LCD is like playing underwater.) But I think it's going to be more practical for more games than the current conventional wisdom suggests.

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Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service by vvanders on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:28PM (#19434711)
Yeah, but you hit the nail on the head when you said you have a steady, consistent latency on your TV.

When you're stuffing the pipe w/ 4k encoded content that puts a lot more pressure on the connection and added packet loss or delay is brutal in that case.

All of this stuff is subtle but it compounds in the same way that the average gamer won't be able to immediately spot 30 vs 60 fps but they'll know that the game "feels" better at 60.

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Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service by eropple on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:40PM (#19434851)
I fully agree that it's an inferior good, and I still don't think multiplayer games will be much of a thing. But I do think that even pretty involved action titles (they tested with an Assassin's Creed title) will be okay. Not great, and I'd get mad at them, but I'm also a really demanding user. Most folks kinda aren't.
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