Fair enough, but how many people said the same thing about digital only 5 + years ago? To be honest, I don’t really even like buying physical copies of games anymore just because if I want the play something via remote play, I have to have the disc in my playstation to do it, and having a bunch of old game discs around just takes up a lot of of space if you buy enough of them.
The game industry seems to follow what the music and movie industries do on a long enough time line, so I expect that once Telecom infrastructure is up to snuff for more people, the streaming thing will be a lot more viable.
in Google’s case, I think the biggest hurdle is going to be the fact that it’s a Google venture because they have a history of killing projects for no reason whatsoever.
The difference is physical vs download is more for sentimentality or collecting, input lag is gamefeel.
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Apple’s foray into it crashed and burned because Apple never wanted to be in the game industry. Steve Jobs hated games and hated that people played games on iPhones, but recognized that they were a moneymaker.
Yeah I understand that. Even remote play isn’t perfect but if the internet situation in the states was like it is in Japan or Korea it might not be as big a consideration.
I agree, but I’m not sure that’s realistic without some kind of revolution in internet infrastructure. That said, international connections would still be worse, since it would be the streaming lag on top of the connection lag, so it’d still be insufficient. And yeah, the current way still isn’t sufficient for international either but at least (as others said) with rollback and the right design for netplay you can always keep realtime inputs.
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Imma say now, Cuphead on Switch confirms he’ll be in Smash 
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Yeah I mean, I don’t think we’ll be using this for competitive gaming for awhile, but at the very least, having a means of being able to play games that are out of print/hard to come by/too expensive to buy would be a great thing for consumers and companies alike. It would make rom sites pointless for most if they could play the old games on a service like this. The upside for game preservation alone would make it worthwhile imo. The challenge there would be various publishers trying to be the big swinging dick taking their ball and going home, but i think a lot of them eould probably jump at the chance to make a bit of coin from their retro titles.
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Also apparently cup head may have achievements and xbox live support
That game pass rumor is getting some weight…
You might be right, and I’m sure a lot of us older gamers feel that way. Especially we who play fighting games which are so dependent on having minimal input lag.
However, as has been mentioned above, many folks thought the mobile market wouldn’t last and it seems like they’ve carved out a sizeable niche in the industry. I don’t think we are necessarily the target audience, and I don’t think something like Stadia will replace the physical console/software market. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it finds a way to coexist. It’s going to really come down to how well it’s implemented, and how well younger gamers respond to it.
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Yeah you guys can have the Stadia. I mean look how much this shit stutters and this is just a single player demo. And that’s not even taking input latency into consideration.
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Yeah that’s pretty bad, but
GOD DAMN I WANT TO PLAY THAT GAME SO BAD!
I’ll be getting it for the PS4Pro 
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While I don’t particularly care I know a lot of people here do.
Epic games keeps making their service bigger and better by announcing more and more exclusive games, content and perks.
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I mean, shit stuttering will be solved with time, even if not specifically by stadia, eventually it won’t be an issue, but the input lag thing will never be solved.
You can’t just flat out claim that. You have no clue why it’s stuttering. It could be network latency, hardware issue on server or client, etc.
Regardless, it’s stuttering and that’s what they’ve shown, and it’s a mess.
I don’t care what they get. No offline mode, no refund policy, no buy.
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I just mean technology will improve, so EVENTUALLY it won’t be an issue, even if Stadia never solves it in it’s lifetime, it will get fixed so long as technology keeps improving, but you can’t break the speed of light so input lag will ALWAYS be there.
That’s all I mean
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I don’t care because I’ve never been a pc gamer and likely never will be. But I know people are excited about their service so I posted it.
Jobs was gone from Apple at the time.
Apple made him quit, and didn’t beg for him to return till much later (and not until MS bailed them out).
Kotal Kahn announced so far
And I guess Jacqui as well
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More ports of games from M$ coming to Switch
My mind is being blown right now…If halo actually showed up on Nintendo console I wouldn’t know how to deal lol
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