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

Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by cptskippy on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:56AM (#21574248)

> I've read reviews yesterday and was amazed by the lack of a long term vision from the reviewers.

Maybe it's because most reviewer are jaded because it's industry standard for gaming companies to promise the world and deliver on only a small part of that.

In general when a gaming company says "and we're going to do..." that's generally qualified with "if there's enough user adoption and demand".

To believe in Stadia, you have to trust Google will deliver on promised features, trust that Google will convince publishers to develop for it's platform, and trust your internet connection. Google really only has control over one of those things.

Also, I wouldn't at all be surprised if Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T are holding a grudge after Google Fiber and might take steps to degrade the Stadia experience as a little fk you to Google.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by odessacubbage on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @11:17AM (#21574588)

to believe in stadia, you need to engage in magical thinking that allows you to believe that google has somehow managed to solve network latency and america's laughable internet infrastructure and just forgot to tell everyone.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by SmirkingRevenge on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:29PM (#21580307)

I mean... Google has metrics, presumably. They can measure these things. They know what proportion of their traffic has adequate bandwidth and latency for their services.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by dchichkov on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @12:52AM (#21581405)

Well, knowing Google, there might have been no requirements in the design doc, measurements are politically risky to bring up at a late stage of the project and perfecting code quality, rewriting, renaming and rebasing is a much safer occupation.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by Melchizedek on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @03:22PM (#21577845)

The US is not the world. The average person in parts of Europe and Asia has a much better internet connection.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by benibela on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:26PM (#21578483)

In Germany I have 8 Mbit/s

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by vocatus_gate on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:30PM (#21579018)

Bandwidth has nothing to do with latency. A low-Earth orbit satellite connection could have 20 Mb/s bandwidth, but the latency on the round-trip for the packets could be 800ms, technically still under a second...but completely unplayable.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by imtringued on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:07PM (#21579819)

That's not the problem. You can have a "watchable" [0] video stream with 1mbit/s.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by benibela on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:43PM (#21586994)

It is a problem with Stadia, because Google says you should have at least 10mbit/s

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