Isn't Stadia pretty much on life support as it is? Google recently announced they weren't doing any first-party games past 2021.That's as good an early warning sign as you're going to get from them as to where they see the platform in 3 years: an also-ran and afterthought at best and "servers will be shut down, and you will lose access to all your games at that time" at worst.
It's rapidly becoming a cult thing where the 100 guys who play it insist it's the best and the future of gaming and it's everyone else's fault for not wanting to play it.
If you travel for business a lot I could see it being great, especially if the hotels can put a rack of Stadia servers in their IT room so you could get something resembling good performance. Of course society just killed business travel as a thing, so that idea goes out the window.
Yes they'd have needed to start out in extremely high density locales where they could basically build Cloudflare but for gaming servers. But they didn't, because modern google strikes me as the sort of place that's incapable of undertaking any sort of long-term project that doesn't depend on the massive infrastructure they already have.
Isn't Stadia pretty much on life support as it is? Google recently announced they weren't doing any first-party games past 2021.That's as good an early warning sign as you're going to get from them as to where they see the platform in 3 years: an also-ran and afterthought at best and "servers will be shut down, and you will lose access to all your games at that time" at worst.
It's rapidly becoming a cult thing where the 100 guys who play it insist it's the best and the future of gaming and it's everyone else's fault for not wanting to play it.
If you travel for business a lot I could see it being great, especially if the hotels can put a rack of Stadia servers in their IT room so you could get something resembling good performance. Of course society just killed business travel as a thing, so that idea goes out the window.
I mean it could be great but it needs a massive, widespread lot of people to adapt to it and widespread high speed internet.
But that's not happened.
Yes they'd have needed to start out in extremely high density locales where they could basically build Cloudflare but for gaming servers. But they didn't, because modern google strikes me as the sort of place that's incapable of undertaking any sort of long-term project that doesn't depend on the massive infrastructure they already have.