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ThatDreamcastTho said:
RaptorChrist said:

Pretty much my thoughts. But what I am wondering about is whether or not it actually is too early. While watching the conference, I was extremely impressed with the offerings they had. I didn't think we were at the point yet where a company could be capable of the power needed to run a game at 4K@60 while also streaming it's output; that came as such a surprise to me and was the turning point in where I changed my opinion from negative to positive towards Stadia.

Having a cloud-based infrastructure allows Google to rapidly build up a collection of these Stadia drives and serve a large number of people (as they only need as many as their are concurrent users). I live in the US, and internet speeds here (and probably everywhere I would guess) increase at a relatively quick pace. I have a 250 Mbps connection today. Last year I was at 75 Mbps. A year before that it was like 40 Mbps. I live near Chicago, so maybe that's why.

One thing I do disagree with is bashing Google for offering 4K. I'm not sure where that was derived. If that was just a flippant remark you made as a negative reaction to the product, then that's fine, but there are plenty of people with the capability of streaming in 4K. I guess you have to ask yourself if your opinion would have been different had it been a product from Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft.

In general, though, we are pretty much in agreement.

Chicago is also the first city to get 5G. Most people do not get those kind of speeds.

Interesting, I didn't know anything about that. What is the average speed then in the US? I'm reading on this page here:

https://www.speedtest.net/reports/united-states/2018/fixed/

And it looks as though the average speed in the US is close to 100 Mbps, but that seems much too high. It looks like in the last year, there was an average download speed increase of 38%. US ranks #7 for download speeds (much lower at 27th for uploads). It also says that something like 75% are capable of 4K video (as of Q3/Q4 2018).

I didn't think the average was that high, but at the same time I didn't think it was as low as 5 Mbps like I feel as though someone else had said at one point. Something that I considered was that perhaps these average speeds aren't conducted at a consumer level, and so they take into account places like McDonalds and Starbucks. If that were the case, it might bring the average speed down as you can find free internet in a lot of places but are restricted to very low speeds (like 5 Mbps).