Poll: Google Stadia - CLOSING DOWN on 18th Jan 2023

Are you going to pick up Google Stadia?

  • Yes, at launch

    Votes: 20 5.3%

  • Yes, but after launch

    Votes: 24 6.3%

  • No

    Votes: 286 75.5%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 49 12.9%
  • Total voters
    379
It seems only natural for gaming to gravitate to the cloud. People don't like the idea of it for a few reasons and are rightly wary of possible ownership, cost and performance issues. However, I think it's the way forward and will change the gaming landscape forever. The majority of people would rather not spend hundreds on keeping a PC suitably spec'd to run the latest games year on year. Consoles offer better bang per buck but still have an upfront high cost with games that are now £45 a pop.

People want the flexibility to use different devices to fit their life style and they don't want to have to jump through hopes to share gaming footage and do the things we are currently doing. Stadia offers a lot of solutions and seamless integration. Imagine not having to worry about upgrading local hardware, knowing that you will always have a consistent rich experience that devs originally planned with nothing left out. It's very appealing to people like me who don't have much time on their hands and just want to switch on and play for quick fixes. It's so accessible, so fast. That's the idea. I can't justify dropping £400 on a gfx card to play the latest AAA game a couple of times a month, but I'd still like to play them sometimes given the chance.

I welcome the change and potential shift and I think it will be interesting to see how it pans out. People knocking it before it's even been implemented I think are concerned about their investment into their own "stuff". You need to consider breaking away from ownership mentality and see gaming as a fast moving thing that one consumes like a service. Gaming goes hand in hand with subscription models and was always going to go down this path eventually. I share the same concerns with Google holding a monopoly though and hope costing is kept controllable and affordable with minimal advertising. Performance issues and latency will indeed make or break it but I can't see them investing this much into it without them having ran real world large scale tests that have worked.
 
If you never leave your house then it's probably a good solution for you. I travel and game remotely a lot, and you will not get a sub 13ms connection in any hotel or in most countries.

There are only so many rooms in my house with a LAN connection too, and there is no way I'd use even a great wireless connection with this service.
 
Kreeeee said:
If you never leave your house then it's probably a good solution for you. I travel and game remotely a lot, and you will not get a sub 13ms connection in any hotel or in most countries.

There are only so many rooms in my house with a LAN connection too, and there is no way I'd use even a great wireless connection with this service.
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5ghz WiFi is fine for gaming.

I played AC origins completely on Steam Link...latency was exactly the same on Ethernet or 5ghz.
 
Maybe i'm being unfair but anything with cloud mentioend on it and I'm instantly uninterested. I'm not against change but with gaming at least I prefer to download my games on to a device or play them off phyical media. I don't want to have to rely on my internet connection to play even if it is pretty stable.
 
I'm looking forward to this, I have been toying with the idea of jumping back into PC gaming but the upfront costs of buying a 4k60 set up is stopping me for now.

Of course this isn't going to compare to gaming on a high end PC, but if it performs as Google say it will then it's definitely a viable alternative in my opinion, especially considering the amount of spare time I get to play games.
 
If you are in a house with a lot of people sharing the connection with their phones and tablets and stuff, how much of the bandwidth will you be hogging when playing a 4K game?
 
Noxia said:
Maybe i'm being unfair but anything with cloud mentioend on it and I'm instantly uninterested. I'm not against change but with gaming at least I prefer to download my games on to a device or play them off phyical media. I don't want to have to rely on my internet connection to play even if it is pretty stable.
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I'm the same, I haven't spent decent money on a 4k OLED TV and a gaming-capable PC just to end up having the graphics quality of my games determined by the thin strands of copper wire that connect me to the internet.

I am intrigued to see how successful this service can be though, it might finally be the right time for it.
 
Stadia is being seriously underestimated. I'm still on a GTX 970, if this service can give me at least 1080p/60 on games like Cyberpunk 2077 (which the 970 will probably struggle with) i'll play it there until i upgrade my rig at a reasonable price.

I won't be buying a PS5 or Next Gen Xbox to play such titles when i can pay a few quid to play it for a month or two.
 
Rock_n_Roll said:
Stadia is being seriously underestimated. I'm still on a GTX 970, if this service can give me at least 1080p/60 on games like Cyberpunk 2077 (which the 970 will probably struggle with) i'll play it there until i upgrade my rig at a reasonable price.

I won't be buying a PS5 or Next Gen Xbox to play such titles when i can pay a few quid to play it for a month or two.
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It's not really. It's more that people into games, such as those posting on forums like these, are not going to be happy with the input lag that's guaranteed with streaming games.
 
The input lag is really minimal...no worse than an average TV that's not in game mode. Being able to play AAA games on any smart TV, without a console, is going to be huge.

Still going to be plenty of market for people that want a gaming machine in their living, that isn't going away just because streaming becomes an attractive option for some people.
 
Yeah, I didn't detect any lag at all whilst playing PlayStation Now recently and I'm average Joe, not a lag specialist like Kreeeee. :p So the general public will think it's fine, I'm sure. The only thing was macroblocks due to bad compression. I expect Google Stadia to be even better in that regard.
 
mid_gen said:
The input lag is really minimal...no worse than an average TV that's not in game mode. Being able to play AAA games on any smart TV, without a console, is going to be huge.

Still going to be plenty of market for people that want a gaming machine in their living, that isn't going away just because streaming becomes an attractive option for some people.
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It's really not. Have you tried any of the current competitors?

I have a 10Gb/10Gb connection with 2ms latency to my nearest data centre and it's still like playing in treacle.
 
Kreeeee said:
It's really not. Have you tried any of the current competitors?

I have a 10Gb/10Gb connection with 2ms latency to my nearest data centre and it's still like playing in treacle.
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Yes I have. It's fine. I'm not going to play a twitch shooter on it, but for most games it's barely noticeable.

If you're the sort of person that thinks it's like playing in treacle, then this product isn't for you.

There are millions of people out there that aren't tech nerds and don't know or care what the latency is.
 
I played some of Uncharted 3 on the PS Now trial years ago and it was pretty rough. The tech may have moved on a lot since then so will wait and see how it plays out.
 
If they get this right then it will change gaming as we know it.

The issue is the input lag but Google have enough money to make it work.
 
Kreeeee said:
If you never leave your house then it's probably a good solution for you. I travel and game remotely a lot, and you will not get a sub 13ms connection in any hotel or in most countries.

There are only so many rooms in my house with a LAN connection too, and there is no way I'd use even a great wireless connection with this service.
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Who plays whilst travelling and really expects a 13ms ping? If you want to play competitive twitch FPS games surely you cannot expect this to be viable in a random hotel Europe in the ***hole of Europe? Also 13ms is low even for FTTC at home. And I doubt you are a pro in Overwatch League or CS:GO!
 
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