If somebody (not me, sorry) would start a petition titled "Save Stadia", I wonder how many people would sign it. There exist examples of petitions aimed at the entertainment industry, such as SaveThe...
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If somebody (not me, sorry) would start a petition titled "Save Stadia", I wonder how many people would sign it. There exist examples of petitions aimed at the entertainment industry, such as SaveTheExpanse on change.org.
Stadia's cloud hardware (GPUs, but maybe also CPUs) has noticeably worse performance and lower resolution than GeForce Now, making Stadia less competitive. The bifurcation point might have been wheth...
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Stadia's cloud hardware (GPUs, but maybe also CPUs) has noticeably worse performance and lower resolution than GeForce Now, making Stadia less competitive. The bifurcation point might have been whether to upgrade Stadia's hardware to match GeForce Now or whether to shut down Stadia. After computing the potential cost of all the hardware upgrades needed, shutting Stadia down might have turned out to be the only logical option.
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, i...
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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)? ---- Why doesn't Stadia have 2 or 3 hardware tiers, and pricing tears reflecting the hardware tiers?
I don't understand why Stadia keeps adding low-budget [80-ties of 20th century]-style games. Out of the "200+ titles" available on Stadia, only approximately 10% are interesting from my viewpoint (so...
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I don't understand why Stadia keeps adding low-budget [80-ties of 20th century]-style games. Out of the "200+ titles" available on Stadia, only approximately 10% are interesting from my viewpoint (so, in my opinion, 90% of the titles are superfluous). Instead, I would like to see on Stadia: - Cyberpunk 2077 with ray-tracing - Horizon Zero Dawn; Horizon Forbidden West - Death Standing: Director's Cut - Fix rendering and gameplay bugs in Darksiders 3 - HDR support in Linux - Better FreeSync support (for example: ability to set 45 Hz as a target with a corresponding self-adjustment of rendering quality settings) - A Plague Tale; A Plague Tale: Requiem (with ray-tracing) - Kena: Bridge of Spirits - Just Cause 4 - Support for hardware decoding of 4K VP9 streams in Chrome+Linux
@StadiaTeam Just a note: In my case, the two Life Is Strange pre-order links in the blog post, containing ".../u/1/...", are invalid because I have Stadia associated with account ".../u/0/...".