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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google by ghaff on Sunday October 02, 2022 @07:58AM (#33055142)
The "average" gamer/consumer doesn't want to fuss with any special gamer hardware or upgrading PCs. They may not even know what a GPU is. And they probably accept that there are lots of things that they can't do with bad internet most of which they care about a lot more than games.

The idea of Stadia made a lot of sense to me when I first heard of it. I guess the implementation wasn't very good though.

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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google by Waterluvian on Sunday October 02, 2022 @08:00AM (#33055155)
In fact, that’s such the case that the average gamer just uses a tablet or phone.
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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google by ghaff on Sunday October 02, 2022 @08:23AM (#33055287)
They tend to be playable offline, but yes. The average player has zero interest in having a gaming PC.

Of course, the average consumer has also never heard of Stadia. I've barely heard of it and I was at the Google Cloud event where they either launched it or gave it a lot of air time.

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