The thing that's horrific to me is the quoted 20GB of data transferred per hour during playtime. I don't have data limits so it doesn't affect me too hard but my Internet connection hovers right around 5mbips per second. I live in a smallish city in Maine. Google is alienating those in rural areas.
People said the same about Microsoft in 2001 or whenever it was that they launched the Xbox.
I like the that they don’t have any load time. It doesn’t look like it’s going to support most games any time soon. It’s going to be mostly hype for a year , I feel.
20GB in an hour is about 44Mbps, so a 100Mbps connection is probably a good goal if you want Stadia to work well.
I'd expect high-speed connection uptake to be quite a bit higher amongst their target market, so over here betting than the majority of gaming users have 100Mbps+ at home isn't that crazy at all imo.
I don't think that future exists, and I don't think Google thinks it does either considering they abandoned the effort to make it happen.