Stadia on GoogleTV in a *hotel* is stunningly good. Played some Borderlands 3 yesterday. There were a few occasional frame skips, and the Bluetooth headphones (I'm a courteous hotel dweller) had occa...
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Stadia on GoogleTV in a *hotel* is stunningly good. Played some Borderlands 3 yesterday. There were a few occasional frame skips, and the Bluetooth headphones (I'm a courteous hotel dweller) had occasional crackles, but it was completely playable and quite fun. Tried another title too, same thing. Very well implemented. On the other hand, sideloaded Xbox Game Pass games on the same device and connection sometimes run well for a couple minutes, but soon completely freeze up the video. Multiple titles tried. But this may have nothing to do with hardware performance, since Game Pass often has weird streaming issues on even the most powerful hardware and connections. Also, per usual, GeForce Now ("The Council") on the same device and connection is flawless, once you get past the usual onscreen login nuisances for the game providers. Some local Android TV games that install won't run, but maybe that has nothing to do with hardware performance, since games like Asphalt 8, Bomb Squad, Bard's Tale, Fractal Space 3D are flawless. The biggest problem with Android TV games is that a great many of them install most of their data to internal storage whether they claim to or not, and it cannot be moved. With Google TVs limited internal storage, you can only really install one such game at a time. I've been using Nvidia Shield at home on a wired 1Gps up/down connection for some time, which is quite powerful and works well for these services. I'm frankly stunned at how good the gaming is on a tiny $50 GoogleTV in a mainstream hotel. I'm using GTV with a port expander, high speed/high capacity external SD card, 1080p TV, and Marriott wired ethernet clocking at 30/50 Mbps down/up. I know Internet in many hotels isn't this good, and 4K maybe wouldn't perform as well. Great job, Google. The remote even controls the hotel TV volume/power, so I never have to touch the hotel remote. I've now relegated my travel Roku to backup. Only improvements needed are more internal storage (or way to genuinely force apps to external storage), multiple logins, and a sliding physical power switch on the remote (so I don't have to remove the batteries for travel).