Re:Stadia Founder's Edition
by SirHound on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:04AM
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Because your purchase is at the mercy of Google continuing to support it. Which they have a horrific track record of.
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Ah yes. I remember a Google Play Music product. I still have music on there. Never trusting Google again for these stuff.
Isn't Google play music still around? At least, it's on my phone.
It is being decommissioned.
What's the alternative, are you going to build your own cluster for such kind of things? As I said, for something your PC can manage, I don't see a need for such stuff. But for something more complex, it has interesting potential. The downside of course is that you can't just run it locally, unless you can match that computational power.
> What's the alternative, are you going to build your own cluster for such kind of things?
Are there any such games that require a cluster of computing power? I don't see any listed in the launch offering.
I think it provides potential for them. At least I see it as the main point, where it can differentiate. How it's used in practice is of course up to developers.
What's listed is indeed not a good example of how it can provide unique features. Most games are too focused on pushing graphics, instead of pushing complex simulation.
Re:Stadia Founder's Edition
by Dylan16807 on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:01AM
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It's possible, but complex simulations have a lot of room to grow before they stop fitting on desktops. Go from one to ten threads and you still fit on a mid-high end CPU.
That's the point. If they are pushing it to the cloud, they can at least use it for something desktops can't handle. If they have a cluster, let them make some game with AI that can utilize it, instead of making it a replacement for something desktops can already do well.
Re:Stadia Founder's Edition
by Dylan16807 on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:09AM
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What I mean is, they could vastly expand it and still not need a cloud. They would have to vastly vastly expand it, which is possible but much less likely.
And for AI you can already handle that in the cloud if you actually want to. The innovations you can get on Stadia are mostly tied to rendering capabilities.
> The innovations you can get on Stadia are mostly tied to rendering capabilities.
Which is my point exactly. They should have focused on innovations where cloud really can differentiate. Instead they run for "push pixels from the server, because your PC isn't strong enough" idea, which will be obsolete tomorrow, since PC hardware is getting better at pushing pixels every year.
Probably just buy a PlayStation