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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by zaarn on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:40AM (#21574014)
The problem is that cloud gaming already exists and many providers did a better job than Google. Even the latency shouldn't be an issue, I've cloudgamed to a DC in the netherlands with 2ms of latency but apparently somehow Google manages to fuck that up somehow.

I doubt Google will continue Stadia, the press is already bad, the product is bad, it'll likely be dusted in a few years, leaving the product owners out of a product and their money.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by raymond_goo on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:44AM (#21574066)
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-streaming/project-xclou...
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by lovich on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @11:12AM (#21574516)
wouldn't 2ms be <400 miles of travel? Youd have to be pretty close to the datacenter to get 2ms of latency when the computer needs time to do calculations as well
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by imtringued on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:26PM (#21579932)
400 miles is pretty Pretty close? That's more than the distance between Paris and Amsterdam but yes you are right. Encoding a video and decoding it introduces additional latency even on the same machine.
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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by lovich on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:21PM (#21580260)
I'm an American so maybe it's different. 400 miles max, reduced by however long it takes for the computations, doesn't seem like a large distance for me. My VPN provider's closest datacenter is 200 miles from me
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