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Lots of growth still to go in this space
Ask any entertainment executive -- it's actually still really early here and YTTV is positioned fantastically
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Google Shutting Down Stadia Cloud Gaming Platform
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Trajectory is the key
Lots of growth still to go in this space
Ask any entertainment executive -- it's actually still really early here and YTTV is positioned fantastically
OK, I will give Google some credits for at least trying new things, or throwing things on the wall and see what sticks. But their product launch failure rate is just so astonishing that I hesitate to try anything new from Google.
nah you should see the amount of pc users using ps now for playstations games that haven’t been ported yet
Less than 1 million new subs a year since launch is definitely a trajectory.
The industry needs innovation. Not cable over the internet. It starts with things like Apple dropping blackouts on MLS and grows from there.
Google is its own self fulfilling prophecy at this point. Everyone warned them after Reader that they can't keep doing this or no one will trust them.
So people expected Stadia to be shut down from the moment it was announced. We know Google abandons anything that doesn't instantly get literally a billion users. So no one had faith in it, so it didn’t get a billion users, so Google killed it.
And still they have learned nothing.
So people expected Stadia to be shut down from the moment it was announced. We know Google abandons anything that doesn't instantly get literally a billion users. So no one had faith in it, so it didn’t get a billion users, so Google killed it.
And still they have learned nothing.
Haha this made me laugh out loud
Apologies to me for all the vicious hate for my claim it wouldn't last half a decade can be mailed to Pennsylvania. Cloud streaming is not the future of gaming and will always be a niche.
Well YouTubeTV is still kicking and has less than that. As a YTTV subscriber, I hope that continues but never know with Google.
I wanted to say thats impossible but I actually get it!
I tried Stadia and the tech behind it was impressive. But Google didn't seem to care about it too much, and was using it more as a vehicle to develop their immersive stream tech.
figure out a way to replace youtube and we got a deal. The most recent alternative is rumble but it doesnt have enough creators yet.
Yeah it's not exactly an accurate statement. I should say they definitely expect that from anything that is free. I think YTTV sticks around for the same reason Google Fi does. It's basically free money now that it's set up.
It's quite easy and tempting to mock Google at this point for this, but kudos where kudos is due. They tried it, it failed, but no user is worse off for it. Refunding everything is not something I would expect others to have done.
You know people make games for it, right? Like they do on Xbox...and PS...
Streaming gaming is not the problem, it is a good and useful thing. GeForce Now for example is wonderful. GFN lets you access all your Steam and Origin purchases and it plays smooth if you have a good internet connection.Streamed gaming was ridiculous! I knew this was going to fail as soon as it was announced. What about game progress and high scores? What happens to those?
Stadia's issue was you had to buy the games from them and they only then worked on Stadia. It was a flawed concept from the start.
Why should they shut it down? It is a different market entirely.
This was an option, not the only option. It's a shame because the actual quality of the Stadia streams is/was in advance of anything else currently on the market. I never experienced any lag in my time with the service. The problems were with the pricing of individual games and the number of games available.
I don't get why people with no interest in something are happy when it fails. Not everyone wants to go out and buy a games console or high-end gaming PC, and this was a way to play some decent games on a Mac or iOS device when there really aren't many other options available. It's failure shouldn't be celebrated in my opinion.
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Games that are also available on much better platforms, and the few exclusives Apple Arcade does have are just mid mobile games.
Plus Apple Arcade's the reason Apple's blocking Xbox Game Pass for Cloud from being available on iOS soooooo...
Too much lag in response time for any of these streaming games services… not worth it at all.
Yes yes I do…I don’t think the half a dozen users or so will be that upset.