When will Google shut down Stadia?

Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by monocasa on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:28PM (#21598387)

Google Play Music/Spotify/Apple Music is next to free to run, it's basically just a CDN on their end. There's almost no user data that didn't come from user machines originally.

Stadia has all the user data on the backend, _and_ is expensive to run since all the processing happens on their end too.

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by joshuamorton on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:39PM (#21598557)

Reading spotify's most recent filing, there was an increase in its compute costs of ~25 million dollars in 3Q2019 when compared to 3Q2018, mentioned in a footnote. In other words, a compute cost increase of $100 million a year was a footnote. That was an increase of about 1.5% of their gross operating income. The full hosting costs are not public, but we're easily talking hundreds of millions a quarter. Practically free?

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Re:When will Google shut down Stadia? by monocasa on Thursday November 21, 2019 @04:22PM (#21599778)

So, an increase of about $1/yr/user? Including I'm sure all of the money they're wasting training half baked ML models? Yeah, that's pretty damn close to free.

Now compare that to stadia which'll probably be dedicating high CPU and GPU to each logged in user, in addition to the low latency video compression hardware they're pretty much guaranteed to have?

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