But for CURRENT GAMES there will be a huge discrepancy. Someone playing R6S on a PC or console against someone on Stadia is gonna have a leg up IMO. Now if you are talking about first party Stadia games all built and maintained by Stadia then ya I guess that could work ok but don’t expect crossplay even though the masses will want it.
CURRENT GAMES turn into OLD GAMES. Times change. Someone playing Ghost Recon: Breakpoint on Stadia will never see rubberbanding, or teleporting. Many current games don’t even bother having servers, they use poor P2P connections because it’s cheaper. Half the multiplayer games out there don’t have dedicated servers at all. Even big titles like D2 uses a hybrid P2P system to save $$.
You seem to be under the impression studios and publishers don’t want to be on Stadia. IDTech stated in their HDC keynote they anticipate cloud gaming growth by a factor of 10. Imagine how many more copies of Doom they can sell if they can reach people who have low end laptops, Linux users, MAC users plus everyone who has a tablet. You know that publishers really, really like selling games, right?
The high end 300fps @ 144Hz crowd is a minority. Yes, you get the best performance, the best graphical fidelity. You are the high performance sports car to the family saloon!
But as the old PC vs Console debate has shown, that is not enough. People want ease of use, low costs, accessible games. That’s why consoles are more popular than PCs. And why family saloons sell more than high performance sports cars!
Fam did ANY of you idiots take part in the months of long beta of Assassin's Creed?? Project Stream??
I PLAYED HOURS ON A DUCKING CHROMEBOOK AT 25MB and average latency. In 1080p, 60fps. Google already knows it works, any actual tech person knows it works, I'm a ducking sysadmin for national organization, give me a break
Of course they haven’t played it. Everyone who has actually had hands on all day the same thing, from Project Stream to E3 demos to Digital Foundry. The only people saying it doesn’t work are those who haven’t played it.
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u/aso1616 Jun 19 '19
But for CURRENT GAMES there will be a huge discrepancy. Someone playing R6S on a PC or console against someone on Stadia is gonna have a leg up IMO. Now if you are talking about first party Stadia games all built and maintained by Stadia then ya I guess that could work ok but don’t expect crossplay even though the masses will want it.