I reckon that damned EU banned King Size Mars Bars.

Post Brexit we will have Emperor sized ones. Bring it on.

There's some thoughts and concerns I've been having about Stadia that I'll get around to posting soon, but in case I forget about it I'll note the thing about possible Google AdSense integration directly into the game world which... really would not be good.

There's some positive stuff about new design possibilities with multiplayer and such, but mostly I think it's possibly a bad thing.

Absence within gameworld has been mooted for years, yes itcould break immersion, but it means devs can save time by not building joke adverts, could increase immersion if people write games around it, Trueman show style

I'm deeply suspicious of this. It's admittedly an American-hoarding-for-the-apocalypse-in-a-bunker type superstition, but I still like physical copies of console games. It doesn't really bother me with Steam because Linux and open-source hardware and you purchase stuff separately.

With streaming, pricing is always beyond the users control, as are things like advertising and data collection. I like owning stuff.

Well everything dies eventually, but some things last longer than others as an entertainment investment.

The only chat i’ve heard about this is via the Crate and Crowbar podcast and they were all incredibly dubious about it from a Google curation point of view, and the developer they have onboard was less than impressed with the implication it could potentially have on smaller game dev.

Keep it.

Most of the big players in games are baddies. The thing that keeps them sort of in check is they don’t get too much power. Having split platforms helps that. As soon as one of them becomes dominant, the others manage to outmanoeuvre them and claw back ground. New consoles come along every few years so the customer gets an in-built jumping off / jumping on point. Google could end that. You can’t compete with them. They’ll be on everything. They’ll suck all content towards themselves.

I’d say it’s fairly new news.

I say it's nothing.

I think there is a market there for streaming games but this seems to have one or two too many things locked down.

Digital only games, fine, but then they are only available through the Stadia store. Streaming only, no option to choose to download. 4k tied to a sub, 1080p not until 2020, with no guarantee it will remain free or indeed ad free.

Compare that to something like Shadow where you effectively get your own remote PC, you can buy games from whatever digital store you wish and if you want to, download those games to hardware you own locally either as well or at a later date if you choose.

I kinda feel like buying games through Stadia runs a big risk of throwing money at a service that has a good chance of not lasting.

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So the pro version will chew up a terabyte in 65 hours or averaged daily per month, 2 hours a day at 4k.

No fucking way is this thing taking off in aus.

Lol.

Yeah, it'll struggle.

Case in point: I'd be close to having the speeds to run stuff, but it would murder my DL limit, my folks have unlimited DL, but their speeds would make it choptastic for sure.

Is the pricing you have to pay for stadia @£10 a month then Buy games extra? Seems like the reverse of normal.

And really if you want to play ass creed at 10fps just get a ps3.

Just seen that everyone’s favourite arrogant wanker Phil Harrison is involved.

This service can die.

^ If it was any other country, I'd take that for a euphemism...
But Oz?



Anyway... Over here, 720p at 60fps, on a 10Mbps connection is, for London at least, within reach for most... That it's based on an upgraded Chromecast for hardware is tempting to me too.

Chromecast is a nice bit of kit, though it's been a bit frustrating since they locked down the UI, and made it harder to launch your phone browser on a big screen.

Another thought, is if they can guarantee a decent framerate at a certain bandwidth, they could base a very interesting VR system on it too...