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WireSpy
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Hardware upgrades.

Seeing the distinct lack of AAA games announced for Stadia isn’t it about time you announced hardware upgrades? Without upgrades we won’t get ports of current gen games. Even a game you announced at launch in 2019, Windjammers 2, is being released in January for every platform except Stadia. Your game library is becoming laughable. 

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BinaryJay
Gold Stadia Guide
Gold Stadia Guide

While I totally agree that a hardware upgrade to compete with the latest consoles (which not very many people are able to get even if they wanted one) would be awesome and is overdue, I don't think a hardware upgrade is what is holding big releases back necessarily - it wouldn't be a magic bullet.  After all, almost all major releases are still targeting last gen consoles and old PC hardware as well due to the fact that so many people are still stuck on old hardware.

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atomsymbol
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Well, but the statement "there are so many people still stuck on old hardware" is a tautological statement - it is a statement that is true irrespective of the calendar year: it was true in 1990, it was true in 2021, and it will very likely be true in the year 2035 as well. There are more than 1 billion people on Earth who are "stuck on below-the-average or below-the-median hardware" at any given point of time throughout the last ~100 years (world population in the year 1928 was approximately 2 billion).

Instead, in my opinion, a more meaningful question/observation is: Why does (for example) AC:Origins look (without taking Stadia video encoding artifacts into account) less detailed and runs at 30 FPS on Stadia in year 2022, if a 3-year-old mid-range desktop GPU (configured to a TDP of 56 Watts and thus down-clocked by approximately 25%) and a 3-year-old desktop CPU run AC:Origins on the High in-game settings at 50-60 FPS (with FreeSync)?

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Why doesn't Stadia have 2 or 3 hardware tiers, and pricing tears reflecting the hardware tiers?

-atom
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