topic Re: STADIA will it be competitive with SHADOW PLAY - pc gaming in Stadia General

STADIA will it be competitive with SHADOW PLAY - pc gaming

SecretCode — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:12:43 GMT

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.

Boost: Nvidia GTX 1080 GPU, 3.4GHz with 4 cores CPU, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage
Ultra: Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU, 4GHz with 4 cores CPU, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage
Infinite: Nvidia Titan RTX GPU, 4 GHz with 6 cores CPU, 32GB of RAM, 1TB of storage

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/

Re: STADIA will it be competitive with SHADOW PLAY - pc gaming

SecretCode — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:41:21 GMT

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?

Re: STADIA will it be competitive with SHADOW PLAY - pc gaming

cynic — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:00:59 GMT

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.

Re: STADIA will it be competitive with SHADOW PLAY - pc gaming

SecretCode — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 01:55:20 GMT

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

Re: STADIA will it be competitive with SHADOW PLAY - pc gaming

SecretCode — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:34:18 GMT

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.

Re: STADIA will it be competitive with SHADOW PLAY - pc gaming

Icemell — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 05:50:28 GMT

Yeah but it's dang expensive and you still have to buy your own games.

Re: STADIA will it be competitive with SHADOW PLAY - pc gaming

deprestige — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:58:44 GMT

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