Shadow play features
“We’re the only one to offer a full PC. You can stream, work, do some Photoshop, do some SolidWorks,” Shadow co-founder Emmanuel Freund said. “We’re the only one to offer 144Hz monitor support, we’re the only one to adapt to all screens.”
The startup is moving away from a single configuration to offer three different plans. On February 2020, customers will be able to chose between three plans — Boost, Ultra or Infinite.
As a pure cloud gaming company, Shadow wants to be available on any platform. You don’t have to buy a Google Pixel phone or a PlayStation to access the service. You can launch your Shadow instance on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, tvOS and Android TV.
And now, you can even imagine using Shadow with a mobile VR headset. After installing the Android app, you can launch VR games on your Shadow instance and access demanding games without a gaming PC.
basically do you think we will see this type of tech happening with STADIA?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/shadow-announces-new-plans-for-its-cloud-gaming-platform/
I should say I post this because it excites me more about STADIA, there is absolutely no reason why STADIA can't easily do any of the stuff that shadowplay offers, with google behind it there is also no reason we can't see "Infinite: Nvidia Titan RTX GPU, 4 GHz with 6 cores CPU, 32GB of RAM, 1TB of storage"
or am I wrong?
Well, I think it is not that simple and Shadow and Stadia are two very different concepts. One basically gives you a whole PC in the cloud, whereas the other tries to become a cloud gaming service focused on performance and accessibility.
Personally, I'd rather see Google focus on improving the service further. Add more features, improve codec, work on latency, work on the stream quality, etc. The way Stadia is designed it works similar to a console but without all of the load times, because you jump into instances where the game is preloaded. Having a whole desktop would be an entirely different experience. And that's not even considering that Stadia is not running Windows.
Very interesting but I guess I should ask can't stadia just refine itself to take the best part of SHADOW and grind it down to it's gaming experience, I mainly use STADIA on my PC monitor and i feel if they get the PC gaming market too that would be grand
I asked shadow play about it and they just basically messaged me with this
Thank you for contacting our Support Hero Team and for your interest in our service!
Do you want a console experience or pc gaming experience?
Do you want a limited game library or unlimited choice of every game in the entire world?
Do want to use a service that just was launched or a service that accumulated experience and knowledge as a pioneer in the industry?
Do you want a service bound by one provider, or a service that could be launched on multiple devices and brands?
If you always opt for the second choice, then Shadow is the one you are looking for.
To keep it simple, Shadow can offer users so much more than what Stadia can in terms of service, availability, options and diversity.
With the introduction of our new offers, we pride ourselves in catering to our users financial and technological specs' needs.
I am very curious about their ability to push everything to the user. You need some beefy servers to handle a decent load.
If there is one thing that Google is good at is handling high loads in combination with high-end datacenters