Do you think Google Stadia is doomed to fail?

[Barkley]

Lafiel said:

Barkley said:

As for the 1080p limit, well Stadia has 8TF of power if I remember correctly, probably around equivelent to a GTX 1080, if you're running games at their maximum settings you probably won't get above 1080p@60fps in most titles anyway, so your choice will be between Ultra 1080p or Medium 4k. So 1080p might actually be the better option anyway, especially as it won't require as much bandwidth.

According to Google Stadia is 10.7TF (GCN 5 architecture - basically a VEGA56) per blade with the possibility of using several blades to run a game down the line (probably after a few years of service).

And I very much doubt the streaming resolution the user chooses has any influence on the resolution the serverblades render the games at. I think free users will simply get a downsampled stream (which isn't a bad thing - should result in nicer image quality than rendering at 1080p).

Possibly but I would prefer if it did run the game at different settings depending on what resolution you were streaming at. Don't think supersampling will make that much of a difference to image quality when streaming anyway. Will a game rendered at 4k compressed into a 1080p 20mbit video stream look much better then a game rendered at 1080p compressed into a 20mbit video stream? It'll lessen the impact of it anyway.

If I were google I'd at least drop rendering to 1080p just to save on electricity costs.