Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin...
by hakfoo on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:47PM
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Isn't that a lot closer to Geforce Now?
Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin...
by ineedasername on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:56PM
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Kind of, but Geforce Now made the mistake of trying to create something that looked kind of like a storefront that appeared to auto populate your game library from Steam, which pissed off publishers who thought GeForce was basically making money off of their games without giving them a cut.
It's probably more of a semantic difference, but saying "Here's a VM, do what you want with it" is different than saying "Create a game library with us and we'll stream publisher X's games to you. We'll even put them in your GeForce library if you own it somewhere else!"
So publishers got mad and many of the biggest pulled the most popular games. Had GeForce just said "Here's a gaming optimized VM" and let users do whatever they want, it probably wouldn't have been a problem. In fact, an very early version of GeForce now did exactly that, complete with a windows desktop.
Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin...
by raymond_goo on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:37AM
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check out shadow.tech then...
And let people install whatever they want on it. There's probably a decent market for people with low/mid range hardware that would like to stream the newest games an ultimate settings. Others who'd just like a portable game library not tied to a specific PC, and a 3rd group that might use it through a chrome cast like a game console.
I'm not sure how large of a market these groups would have been, but certainly much larger than whoever Stadia appeals to.