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[OmegaSupreme]

Where will those paid streaming shills go to now?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I feel like I’m supposed to rub this in someone’s face but I forget who.

 

[Interfectum]

Where will those paid streaming shills go to now?

On Twitter they are rallying around xCloud and Geforce Now.

 

[MayauMiao]

Predictable death. The brains behind Stadia must have thought every gamer have gigabit connection, earn Google salary and stayed in Google campus.

 

[NeonGhost]

The biggest winner in all of this is Shannon from Sony santa Monica studios taking that payday knowing it was going down in flames

 

[AmuroChan]

Watch Sony will buy the tech to expand on its cloud infrastructure.

Price tag is going to be high for that tech. Also, didn't they sign the deal with MS to use Azure for game streaming?

 

[AJUMP23]

We all knew Stadia would fail.....It was just a matter of time.

 

[MaulerX]

It needed a streaming library for a flat fee like Netflix or Gamepass. Paying FULL price for each game for only streaming is stupid.

This is exactly what doomed it from the start.

Also people saying that the tech is great, how you can stream in 4K and with low latency... Yes I will not disagree but we have to consider that relatively speaking hardly anyone uses Syadia. The system was never really taxed. We don't know how it would've performed under max load scenarios. I guess we'll never know.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

What a shitshow.

All those fucking idiots here on GAF that insisted Stadia and game streaming was the future, where are you all now? Where is your god?

Oh yeah, they've moved on to pushing the even shittier NFT and Metaverse bandwagons now... lol.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

We all knew Stadia would fail.....It was just a matter of time.

"We" clearly didn't.

Some of us like you and I, who were sensibly minded, knew it was going to fail.

Many even here on GAF insisted Stadia and game streaming would kill consoles and be "TEH FUTURZ!!!"

 

[AJUMP23]

"We" clearly didn't.

Some of us like you and I, who were sensibly minded, knew it was going to fail.

Many even here on GAF insisted Stadia and game streaming would kill consoles and be "TEH FUTURZ!!!"

Those are people that have no ability to make any market analysis.

 

[rofif]

Ok, who bought this?

probably sony for 10bil

 

[Ozriel]

"We" clearly didn't.

Some of us like you and I, who were sensibly minded, knew it was going to fail.

Many even here on GAF insisted Stadia and game streaming would kill consoles and be "TEH FUTURZ!!!"

Your celebrations are premature. Game streaming is still going strong with GeForce Now and Xcloud.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Your celebrations are premature. Game streaming is still going strong with GeForce Now and Xcloud.

Strong is a bold word. I'm sure plenty of people have tried streaming but I doubt it goes beyond that for most. Downloads are the future and present. Streaming is a small component that the vast majority will never use.

 

[Interfectum]

Your celebrations are premature. Game streaming is still going strong with GeForce Now and Xcloud.

It's not. The only reason Xcloud is even going is it's bundled with Game Pass.

 

[Rest]

Ah yes, another thread about the gaming service no one cares about.

 

[Dream-Knife]

Do you guys actually subscribe to all these news sites? If not how can you read the paywalled articles.

Copy and paste the url into archive.org

 

[CuteFaceJay]

they need to make it look like it gives Value. Maybe they should check by MS and see how its done.

 

[tusharngf]

This will create Monopoly in the market. Ms will be unstoppable if they get more subscribers on their service.

 

[saintjules]

Shutting down their internal studios was probably the worst thing they could do.

 

[nemiroff]

Ah yes, another thread about the gaming service no one cares about.

Oh we care, we just don't care for its potential to quickly take over (and by Google no less..) the way games are delivered and curated as we know it. It's a service that trades quality for a perceived convenience and in a worst case scenario it could undermine how we play games for decades to come.

 

[Captain Toad]

Why bother. Cloud gaming/ streaming, whatever you want to call it, will always suck.

It will always be inferior. But, it has a place. Just not as the primary or ideal way to game.

 

[TheGodfather07]

Remember when people used to think Google could be a threat? Lol nothings changed. People say the same thing about amazon, Netflix etc.. It's like boogeyman at this point . This threat doesn't exist.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Your celebrations are premature. Game streaming is still going strong with GeForce Now and Xcloud.

Define "going strong"... i.e. how many active users and total revenue generated for each service?

Those services aren't doing much better than PS Now, i.e. positively pales in comparison to the traditional local gaming industry.

 

[chromhound]

I'm surprised it's not dead yet

 

[Ozriel]

Define "going strong"... i.e. how many active users and total revenue generated for each service?

Those services aren't doing much better than PS Now, i.e. positively pales in comparison to the traditional local gaming industry.

Of course it’s not going to supplant traditional native gaming in one day. Heck, even the shift to digital has taken over a decade to happen.

 

[Dream-Knife]

Of course it’s not going to supplant traditional native gaming in one day. Heck, even the shift to digital has taken over a decade to happen.

The only reason the shift to digital happened is because games had to be installed anyway.

Look at switch. Games run off the media, and most people buy physical.

 

[Rat Rage]

Shocking! Nobody saw this coming!

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Of course it’s not going to supplant traditional native gaming in one day. Heck, even the shift to digital has taken over a decade to happen.

The point is it's NEVER going to supplant traditional gaming. At least the digital shift proceeded a clear trend, even if it was gradual. Streaming has been met with failure after failure after failure. There is no clear trend towards an all streaming future.

Fundamentally, gamers don't want that.