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Main Discussion
Stadia and AI
Google is really good at AI. Started with 1-800-GOOG-411
Cant wait for @Google#Stadia to come out full release. What an #innovative idea. Technology adapts to humans rather than humans adapt to technology. #gamers and #streamers be prepared for a #change in everything you know!!
— ThisCountryBoy Gamer (@ThiscountryboyG) April 19, 2019
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“Emerging competitors like Google have a cloud infrastructure, a community with YouTube, but they don’t have the content,”
But they do have Phil Harrison industry veteran with 30 years of experience.
Harrison being interviewed by Polygon said “Don’t read too much into why so-and-so was there and why so-and-so wasn’t there,” “We’ve had deep conversations over a number of years now. We’ve shipped over a hundred development kits already. We’ve got thousands of creatives already underway. So you’ll see a pretty amazing lineup come June.”
Story 3
A controller making the rounds, isn’t real. It’s a concept by Daniel Cheung
Feedback
A console’s, or in this case gaming platform, success often comes down to great exclusive titles that everyone wants to play. What do you think #googlestadia has up its sleeve in this department?
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In addition to new game types, I also think it’ll be interesting to see if games make heavier use of video. Everyone is focusing on the ability to instantly jump from YouTube to games, but the ability to jump from games to YouTube is also pretty important and overlooked.
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Main Discussion
Game ownership and preservation
How do you preserve a game that you never had the files of?
How do you preserve a game that was never designed to be run outside a data center
NEWS
Story 1
Many people play games on TVs with so much processing lag that the pixels might as well have been coming from a datacenter. Not everyone knows or bothers to enable game mode (sadly).
-Release is closer to the end of 2019 than the middle of 2019.
-Upstream needed is minimal (literally a few hundred kilobytes per second)
Story 3
Best possible environment, but damn this looked really convincing in the realm of latency.
Summary – latency was close to an Xbox One X locally.
Story 4
In an interview with Variety, Phil Harrison said there is another Stadia event coming geared toward YouTube creators sometime before summer. The YouTubers event will tackle, among other things, how those video creators will make money through the service.
Feedback
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As a representative of the 29 million Americans living on the 96.5% of the USA which is not “urban”, I’d like to chime in regarding Stadia and provide a bit of a reality check. While it is interesting technology, it is rather tone-deaf to the state of the American internet infrastructure. Most of the people I know have “broadband” clocking in under 10Mbit/s, which a considerable number (such as my parents) stuck at a 5Mbit/s tier that often doesn’t even hit that consistently. Many of these people have DSL as their only option, with the cable companies (as horrendous as they are) not considering their area to be worth running cable to. I even have a fair number of clients who are stuck at 1MBit/s DSL. Combine those speeds with latency, and then factor in the ubiquitous data caps most ISPs hit you with, and there is a serious disconnect between the utopian views of streaming-only, cloud-only lives like Stadia and the reality to American internet. The people coming up with Stadia, self-driving cars, and so on really seem to live in an Urban reality-distortion bubble which is really out of touch with the world beyond the suburbs.
Not only that, but just like digital-only gaming and the decline of physical media, I fear what a streaming-only gaming world will lead to. Digital-only and streaming-only advocates are shooting themselves in the foot and ruining so many core aspects of the gaming world. Game trading and borrowing, reselling old games, and guaranteed longevity are being sacrificed for the sake of impatience. Can you imagine if you no longer could play Super Mario Bros 3 after 1995 when the NES was discontinued? (Yes, Nintendo has been kind enough to keep it alive via “virtual console” and emulation on later consoles, but we are at their whim and viability. And for a wihle, it almost seemed we weren’t going to get retro games on the Switch)
-Scott
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