The real problem with Google Stadia (Halloween edition)

[Ganoncrotch]

CuCabeludo said:

RaptorChrist said:

While you scoff at 35 Mbps, and then tout around about how 80 Mbps isn't even the fastest in your area, others see your post and scoff at 80 Mbps, wondering if 80 is supposed to be impressive.

Point being that there are people who live in areas where 35 Mbps is not available. Trying to pick your fights with people over an internet speed discussion is in poor taste, and clearly that is what you are doing, given this post and the one after.

Plus I don't know that your facts are correct. Out of curiosity, I fact-checked your post and what I found was that on SpeedTest, the United States ranks #8 in the world for Internet speeds, and I don't see China on the list. I'm pretty sure internet speeds in China are among the worst in the entire world.

If a 3rd world country can have a cheap internet deal with 80mbps on a metropolitan area, I wonder why a 1st world country coundn't for someone to say Stadia requirements are unrealistc.

I didn't say it was unrealistic, I said that a person who meets the requirements meets those requirements for their already installed gaming devices which they will not be too keen to turn away from for the ability to buy those same games again but with latency in single player titles from an unproven service from a company known to drop things if they don't do gangbusters out the gate.

Think of it like this.... I'm not saying that petrol for a car is something that people don't have, but what I am saying is Google is reaching out to find customers who have a unlimited supply of petrol in their homes but who also don't own anything which makes use of that petrol, they are appealing to a customer who I don't think exists.

And obviously someone can go out and buy a high speed broadband line and get stadia and get step up with Google Stadia, but have you spoken to people who don't want to spend 1.99 on a phone app they play around the clock? You can't convince that person to upgrade their broadband to unlimited and subscribe to a monthly fee to allow them to buy a 60e AAA game, those customers who want AAA games will pay the cost of a system to own it (or as much as you can own software) Think of it like this, a game on the PS4 or Stadia costs 60e say.... but the PS4 itself costs around €200, which means that the platform along with the controls/storage/leads to play it on only costs around the price of 3x AAA games, relatively speaking that is a really low barrier to entry to gaming, and the customer who Google Stadia is appealing to does not want to step over this very low barrier.