When will Google shut down Stadia?

Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by heywoods on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:57PM (#21597140)

I think I can help answer your question, but just watching the keynote will be best. https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM. The tl;dr of the whole keynote is what's different about Google's attempt at 'Cloud Gaming' is their ability to leverage their infrastructure. Outside of Amazon and Microsoft I don't know of another company that will be able to match the latency and computation requirements to make this all work as marketed. What really stood out to me from their keynote this year was the number of edge nodes that Google has on top of their datacenter infrastructure. https://youtu.be/hl-Y1QVhmcM?t=1360

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by AlexandrB on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:14PM (#21597360)

> What is different with Google's attempt at 'Cloud Gaming' is their ability to leverage their infrastructure.

That's not innovation, it's just having a bigger stick than the other guy.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by lonelappde on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:32PM (#21597602)

Yes,we know, nothing remotely similar to anything else is innovation. Airplanes are just bicycles with bolted on wings.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by bhauer on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:22PM (#21597449)

Okay, but that's hardly what most would consider innovative. Applying their large scale is more of an evolution of or improvement to the established cloud gaming idea.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by lonelappde on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:34PM (#21597637)

That's what the word "innovation" means.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by maest on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:14PM (#21598188)

All that compute and network power and yet GeForceNow performs better for me than Stadia.

I'm just one datapoint, I know, but that's also just a keynote.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by hyperpallium on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:22PM (#21597453)

Google Suggest is low latency, and required a huge effort, driven from the top.

Cloud gaming needs even lower latency. I don't think it's possible, but if google is doing the serious datacenter work, it must be a testbed for something else, because gaming isn't worth it anyway.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by gilrain on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:42PM (#21597727)

"gaming isn't worth it anyway"

> By 2018, the United States video game industry had matched that of the Unites States film industry on basis of revenue, with both industries having made around US$43 billion that year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by hyperpallium on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:39PM (#21598552)

Google's revenue in 2018 was $137B... but you're right, a slice of $43B may be worth it to them.

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