"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it"

Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:17AM (#21573660)

If bandwidth is good enough to handle 4K 60 FPS game streaming, downloading or patching a 150 GB game will be breezy enough it won't bother you much anyways.

Bear in mind, the Washington Post reviewer who was showing how bad Stadia was on the office's gigabit connection was speedtesting at 291 Mbps down at the time.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by SparkyMcUnicorn on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:23AM (#21573765)

That still doesn't cover the cost of a high-end gaming machine. GPU alone can be north of $1k. Imagine not having to re-buy all those components every 2-3 years.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:28PM (#21579000)

Stadia isn't going to give you the visual quality of a high-end gaming machine so that's a bad comparison. 4k at 60 FPS doesn't mean anything if there is lag and compression artifacting.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by dlp211 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:53AM (#21581943)

Stadia is like a 960 GTX equivalent quality for the free tier and a 1080 GTX for the 4k tier. Let's not kid ourselves about the level of hardware power that one gets from this service.

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