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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by DharmaPolice on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:37PM (#22177102)
Related - I think instead of Stadia being pitched as a competitor to cutting edge gaming platforms it would have been interesting if they had started out with offering "classic" gaming content. A cloud service which offered me the ability to switch between (for example) Atari 2600, SNES, NeoGeo, Dreamcast and old school PC games is something I might consider depending on the price model. Yes, emulators exist but they can be fiddly to setup depending on the platform and not everyone is comfortable with downloading ROMs of questionable legality. Presumably, Google engineers could get older games running pitch-perfect on their server hardware and we could stream the results.

Once people were comfortable with "game streaming" they could move forward with new/exclusive content. Which is basically what Netflix has been doing. I appreciate licensing old games is probably a nightmare, but a service offering opportunities to play old classics would have got a lot more goodwill than this mess.

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Re:Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silenc... by technofiend on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:23AM (#22177716)
There's nothing stopping someone from adapting an emulator to Stadia's rendering framework, although I'm not sure Google would approve the result. I agree with you that Google acquihiring (for example) Good Old Games might have been cool, but IMHO Google is pitching the other end of the performance spectrum: play AAA games on a Chromebook.

If they had done both then they could have released GOG titles as filler between AAA releases and that would have been something.

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