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

Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by duskwuff on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:18PM (#21578407)

Fighting games are highly latency-sensitive, to the extent that many fighting game tournaments are played on CRTs (because image processing on flatscreen TVs introduces additional frames of latency). They're practically a worst case for a streaming video game service.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:29PM (#21578509)

Fighting games are also a best-case scenario for Stadia's latency-mitigation tech, since they often already have a rollback system implemented for online multiplayer.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by ssully on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:44PM (#21578639)

I think that's exactly why they included it - to demonstrate how good (or bad) the latency is on Stadia.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by odessacubbage on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:22AM (#21582357)

not only that, but the audience for fighting games and in particular one as niche as a legacy snk title, are people who will buy a 200 dollar arcade stick just to have slightly more consistent inputs & execution. this is not exactly a group of people that will accept latency that ranges from okayish to semi-unplayable. the samsho community is fucking livid right now that snk went through with this deal before releasing a proper pc port.

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