Steve Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 A summary video of the announcement: - MS are launching their game streaming platform this year too. I just can't see how they'll have solved the biggest issue with this kind of technology - latency. I guess we'll see how it turns out and how much it costs later this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00ban Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Game changer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBearOne8III Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 how much internet speed is required??? everybody dosent have high speed internet. it would be dope if it can be played thru smart tv's or even other consoles that are already online and can get on youtube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00ban Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Aren't they starting to roll out 5G soon though? The speeds that shit can achieve would be fast enough to handle the data as far as I can tell from my (limited) research. Time for Steve to swoop in and make me look a fool like normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 5G should offer ample speed, assuming companies don't have "fair use" caps on "unlimited" data packages. It's really the round trip time to the nearest server and the processing time that'll make or break it. Saying that, I'm used to pings of around 130 ms when playing online multiplayer games, cos I'm usually playing with American or Canadian friends on servers that are local to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Some more details of this came out today. I can't quite figure it out but I'm tempted to get the £119 founders edition just because I like pissing money away.https://store.google.com/product/stadia_founders_edition?srp=/magazine/stadia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 I already know I won't like the controller, but even if I did, I wouldn't spend money on this until reading reviews. Plus, there's no gold controller option, so I'd give it a pass if I was you, Deft. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 So their business model isn't going to be what I thought it was going to be. I assumed that it would be a subscription service that included the games that the service offers, like Game Pass or like xCloud is going to be, but that's not the case. Stadia Pro will allow you to stream games at up to 4K and that will cost £8.99 per month. Stadia Base will be free when it launches in 2020, but it will be limited to 1080p. Stadia Pro will give you access to a "growing library of games", however, right now all that's been announced is Destiny 2, which is going free to play everywhere anyway. Here's the kicker though - when new games are added to the service, you will have to buy them at full price, even if you're paying for the Pro tier. This isn't what I expected at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 19, 2019 Author Share Posted November 19, 2019 Forbes has utterly panned Stadia: - Google Stadia Launch Review: A Technical, Conceptual Disaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 10, 2020 Author Share Posted November 10, 2020 Google are now giving away a Stadia Premiere Edition for free to anyone that has a YouTube Premium subscription. I doubt any of you guys have YouTube Premium, but just in case you do, you can grab the free Stadia here: - https://stadia.google.com/SdFGljSduV5z Oh, and you had to have had the YouTube subscription on or before November 6th to get this offer, so you can't sign up for it, grab the free Stadia, then cancel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 The first nail in the coffin for Stadia perhaps: - Quote Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially. Given our focus on building on the proven technology of Stadia as well as deepening our business partnerships, we’ve decided that we will not be investing further in bringing exclusive content from our internal development team SG&E, beyond any near-term planned games. https://blog.google/products/stadia/focusing-on-stadias-future-as-a-platform-and-winding-down-sge/ Jade Raymond has quit the company as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freshcuts Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 I really enjoyed cyberpunk on stadia. Was worth buying the hardware (missed the promo for 24 h) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 29, 2022 Author Share Posted September 29, 2022 Google are shutting Stadia down on January 18th 2023. They are going to refund all Stadia hardware and software purchases made through the Google Store in full, which is pretty decent of them IMO. They expect the majority of refunds to have been sorted out by mid-January. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdiggla Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Yeah that's good on them. I hadn't heard that part. Wonder if there is any mods that can be done on the hardware to make it a homebrew system or emulator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 Google has released an update you can download which will enable Bluetooth on a Stadia controller, allowing you to use it to game with other devices, such as a PC: - https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_GB.html Once the controller is switched to Bluetooth mode, it can't be changed back. There's a couple of other limitations, so read the FAQ first if you're considering doing this. They are offering this update until 31st December 2023. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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