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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Raid » Fri Mar 06, 2020 12:24 pm

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Their efforts to attract game devs to the service sound hilariously inept
Their entire sales pitch seems to be "Yeah, we're Google. We're really big. Just think about how big we are. Don't you also want to be big?" and completely missing the point that in the sector they're trying to compete in they're pitifully small.

It really doesn't sound like Google's heart is in it, and unless this changes I can't see the service lasting very long.

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Re: Google Stadia

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Raid wrote:
Fri Mar 06, 2020 12:24 pm
Sly Boots wrote:
Fri Mar 06, 2020 8:00 am
Their efforts to attract game devs to the service sound hilariously inept
Their entire sales pitch seems to be "Yeah, we're Google. We're really big. Just think about how big we are. Don't you also want to be big?"
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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Raid » Sun Nov 22, 2020 10:38 pm

So my household now has a Stadia; my housemate got it free with her phone. It's sad really, the controller, the technology and the user experience is actually pretty good - I genuinely couldn't have told you that it was streaming Hitman (which is a fairly detailed game), although it's worth noting that the TV is only 1080p and we have a fibre internet connection, so it really shouldn't be struggling.

It's just a shame about the business model.

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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Achtung Englander » Mon Nov 23, 2020 12:12 pm

yep

Amazon's Luna is the way
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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Wrathbone » Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:41 am

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021 ... publishers

...Aaaand that’s the end of that chapter. Kind of.

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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Raid » Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:55 am

"Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially," explained Harrison of the decision.
I like how any person on this forum could have told them that. And our consulting fees would probably have been quite reasonable.

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Post by DjchunKfunK » Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:26 am

I'm shocked, whoever could have seen this coming? ¬_¬

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Post by Achtung Englander » Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:56 pm

We cannot afford to make games says one of the richest companies in the world.
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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Raid » Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:48 pm

Well there we are then. Three years is probably more than I'd have given it in fairness.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/2337 ... nuary-2023

I went back and looked at the first few pages of this thread. Baldurs Gate 3 was one of the major launch announcements, and now people who bought it on Stadia won't be able to play the full thing...

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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Achtung Englander » Thu Sep 29, 2022 5:45 pm

We ALL predicted this one

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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Raid » Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:10 pm

It's genuinely a bit frustrating. The service worked. The business model didn't. Google woefully underestimated the amount of investment starting a games company required, despite them having what is essentially an infinite budget (not just for the actual company, but for the research beforehand). I genuinely don't understand what they were doing, and this has been clear for almost the entire life of the service. Literally every commentator said as much, including everyone here.

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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Alan » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:57 am

It was better than Sony and MS offerings but it was also inevitable. To be fair, they’re refunding everything, hardware and software, so cudos for not making Dummy P Consumer fund your experiment. It’ll be interesting to watch Amazon now as the only non-game company trying to get in on it. It’s weird how competitively quiet GeForce now is chugging away being significantly better than the rest but I suppose their business model is a bit more niche I guess.
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Re: Google Stadia

Post by Wrathbone » Fri Sep 30, 2022 10:02 am

Raid wrote:
Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:10 pm
It's genuinely a bit frustrating. The service worked. The business model didn't. Google woefully underestimated the amount of investment starting a games company required, despite them having what is essentially an infinite budget (not just for the actual company, but for the research beforehand). I genuinely don't understand what they were doing, and this has been clear for almost the entire life of the service. Literally every commentator said as much, including everyone here.
Although I think it may be too simplistic to point the finger at one person, the fact that it was headed by Phil Harrison (the same man of course who was largely responsible for the disastrous Xbox One launch) seems conspicuous.

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