Re:When will Google shut down Stadia?
by lonelappde on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:38PM
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If that MS approach works, why hasn't Netflix or Gog or someone already done it for any games?
Netflix has been trying to introduce interactive content to their platform for years. The latest attempt is Minecraft: Story Mode [0]. Netflix's architecture is designed around streaming static video files, on platforms without great latency guarantees. There can be gaps of up to a second when loading the next video file. Interactive UI and choicepoints are quite limited.
Streaming live and streaming offline media require very different infrastructure.
There was also that choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror thing.
They don't have the game dev experience or the library. Seems obvious. They can stream the games for the same reason Netflix can't buy a single DVD and stream that movie to everyone on the planet.
Apparently, Microsoft is simply going to rack-mount XBox hardware and stream it that way, which means the entire XBox library is instantly compatible.
For Stadia, games have to be modified specifically for it and their Linux configuration, which limits what games are announced for the platform, and requires engineering effort.