| 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. |
I am not bashing them for offering 4k/60fps streams...... I just know better and know that for some strange ran a lot of these companies are allowed to get away with all kinds of shit these days. It really wouldn't matter wh wa offering game streaming.... as much of a sony fan as I am I have never really tried game streaming of any sort other than share play and that was me acting as the host. Streaming Is just not something I am interested in because I don't believe we are at the point were it can be as hassle free as just picking on my controller and gaming on my TV.
But let me point out what I mean.... all that talk about 10.7TF by google is just marketing nonsense. Why? Cause their model is server based and they can stack "instances". An instance ends up being what is available to the end user at any given time and not what is in a server blade. The end use an be using a 30TF instance foral we know. And then basing their analysis on two consoles that are pretty much on their way out the door? And the fat that when the PS5/XB2 is released and are pushing similar or more power i would ean that their 10.7TF is only really good for 30fps games all of a sudden. But the they will just stack an instance to meet up... which makes you wonder why they even said that begin with.
I was totally impressed with a lot of stuff they talked about...... but as for the atual service I just feel there is a lot of glossing over in there. And I know connection speeds will get better, in the country I am i from the ISP I use the the fastest connection s cently 160Mbs. Bt that osts around $170/month. But the same company just increased all their plans by 50% for free at the start of this year. So yeah at some point we all will be in a position where a decent enough connection will be something we can have.
