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kirby007 on 19 March 2019

Layout is cucked.
But makes sense microsoft making strides in this department after all that was how the xbox one was envisioned as



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EspadaGrim on 21 March 2019
shikamaru317 said:

Nice to hear that MS is aiming for much lower internet speeds than Google. Stadia require 25 mbps for 1080p/30 fps and drops down to 720p quality at 15mbps, but it seems like MS goal is to get down to around 5-6 mbps for 1080p streaming.

Yeah that will give Xbox the advantage right off the bat, but it appears that Google is aiming for next gen that’s why it’s starting out with a 10 tflop GPU.



EspadaGrim on 21 March 2019

Going to be interesting to see what new markets MS will be able to capture with this.



Eagle367 on 21 March 2019

The streaming wars can continue for a while until everything;s refined in that end. Until then consoles and PC are the way to go. Frankly streaming working with low latency and required download speed is a threat to PC gaming before it is a threat to console gaming since exclusives will still exist.



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PwerlvlAmy on 21 March 2019

I hope its better than Stadia when its finalized. I do not want Google to win or gain footing xD



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Pemalite on 21 March 2019

I welcome Googles disruptive presence in the gaming space, More competition is a good thing.



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CuCabeludo on 21 March 2019
Pemalite said:
I welcome Googles disruptive presence in the gaming space, More competition is a good thing.

Agree, now it seems MS will have to really put their shit together in their cloud platform.



Imaginedvl on 08 April 2019
CuCabeludo said:
Pemalite said:
I welcome Googles disruptive presence in the gaming space, More competition is a good thing.

Agree, now it seems MS will have to really put their shit together in their cloud platform.

Except they are far from being disruptive so far :)

Time will tell if they become it or not but more competition is simply better for everyone for sure.



billgatesdotexe on 10 May 2019

I don't think both will so particularly well in the US. The Internet infrastructure isn't there yet.



Dulfite on 10 May 2019
Pemalite said:
I welcome Googles disruptive presence in the gaming space, More competition is a good thing.

I have felt this way for a while, but it can have it's negatives too. Farmers are paid to not farm, so crops don't get so cheap that the farmers doing it can't make a living. If we all of a sudden have an influx of farmers for competition's sake, food prices would plummet to the point that all the farmers would go broke, then we'd have no food and it would skyrocket in price.

Disney is entering the streaming industry. Netflix haa struggled to make a profit year over year. Now Disney shows up with $7 charge, far cheaper than Netflix. This may cause their prices to have to drop, but what if they can't afford them to drop and go out of business.

Google Stadia is backed by such a wealthy company that, if it succeeds, it may rock the industry in either a good way or a devestatide way. If it works, I think there will be a lot of gaming companies that go out of business and all for competition's sake.