Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
by jedieaston on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:20PM
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On the other hand, everyone on the east coast (therefore using east coast edge nodes) will be playing from 8-11 EST when the new Wolfenstein game comes out, so how is stuff rationed? Do you make people queue until there is a node close enough to them available? Do you sell the spare GPUs to people in GCP to use for their compute on off times to make up the cash? Do you make it $40 per month?
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Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
by amaccuish on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:42PM
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I think this comment is super underrated. If America is asleep, you can't really use that capacity for players in Europe, since the latency would increase. Likewise if Europe is over capacity, you can't really just assign players to a US server.
Re:Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:01PM
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And (while I realize you're oversimplifying for the sake of example), it's not just per-continent in this case, but something more akin to per-metro-area.