OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Where will those paid streaming shills go to now?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
I feel like I'm supposed to rub this in someone's face but I forget who.
Interfectum
Member
On Twitter they are rallying around xCloud and Geforce Now.
AmuroChan
Member
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?
MaulerX
Member
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
Member
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.
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
Member
"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
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Those are people that have no ability to make any market analysis.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Your celebrations are premature. Game streaming is still going strong with GeForce Now and Xcloud.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
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
Member
It's not. The only reason Xcloud is even going is it's bundled with Game Pass.
Dream-Knife
Banned
Copy and paste the url into archive.org
CuteFaceJay
Member
they need to make it look like it gives Value. Maybe they should check by MS and see how its done.
saintjules
Member
Shutting down their internal studios was probably the worst thing they could do.
nemiroff
Member
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.
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Captain Toad
Banned
It will always be inferior. But, it has a place. Just not as the primary or ideal way to game.
TheGodfather07
Member
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
Member
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.
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chromhound
Member
I'm surprised it's not dead yet
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
Banned
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.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
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.