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Xxain said:
yvanjean said:
Remember this day in gaming history March 19th, 2019. Official start of stream gaming.

I like what I see!

Wait for the pricetag.



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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Xxain said:

I like what I see!

Wait for the pricetag.

Honestly they can't charge that much for this. Most of the horsepower is on their servers, so the hardware itself should be cheaper than regular consoles. Otherwise they are going to have a hard time to even start selling this.



You know it deserves the GOTY.

Come join The 2018 Obscure Game Monthly Review Thread.

Lol, pacman textures.



Luz Sancho could aim to be Madrid's mayor with that accent.



In my neck of the woods, the datacaps on cell plans alone means literally no one will be using this outside of wifi.



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So real talk, how much data usage is this thing using? 4k 60 fps can't be less than 5 MB/s.

For some people who have 100 GB, 250 GB, 500 GB, 1 TB, or 2 TB per month data cap this would be eaten through in less than a week of a few hours of gaming a day.

I feel like Google made this thing thinking that it had Google Fiber everywhere. It doesn't. ISPs are still using data caps in lots of places around the globe. This will never work.



Ugh, I just hate they're trying to make traditional consoles obsolete.



Darwinianevolution said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Wait for the pricetag.

Honestly they can't charge that much for this. Most of the horsepower is on their servers, so the hardware itself should be cheaper than regular consoles. Otherwise they are going to have a hard time to even start selling this.

What's more interesting is what kind of pricing structure they're setting up with developers.

Also, ads. Just wait for how ads work their way into this.



potato_hamster said:
In my neck of the woods, the datacaps on cell plans alone means literally no one will be using this outside of wifi.

Maybe OneWeb or Starlink will allow for drastically lower prices, but I doubt that, and they are both still years from starting their services.



This is not for me. I know publishers cant wait for physical media to disappear, but Im not ready for it.