Comment by rvz | Hacker News Reader

Comment by rvz | Hacker News Reader

I'm from the future. Stadia (was) a platform that tried to change gaming and replace consoles or gaming PCs by using the cloud to play games on any screen. Unfortunately, the gamers said no and ignored it. Then it shut itself down and went to the Google graveyard.

The fact no-one cared about their free trials, their own studios closing, Apple still barring Stadia and now many of the Stadia team leaving should be enough to tell you that Stadia's existence is almost over.

How is it that people are 'still' waiting and scrambling for PS5's and Xbox Series X|S consoles since last year rather than going for Stadia's 'no-hardware' cloud gaming platform? If you can't grow during last year's strange times then you're really off to a slow start.

So I'll sit back, relax and go back to my PC/console device?

I don't doubt that there is some kind of market for it, but I think that the people that hail something like Stadia as "the future of gaming" (as opposed to serving that specific market) really live in a bubble and do not realize that a large majority of people around the globe (or even the US) do not even have access to really good or cap free internet.

I do have access to decent internet (fiber), I tried Stadia and while it was better than I expected it still felt really bad.

I would argue that part of this was execution. I signed and then cancelled 20 minutes later as their catalog didn't have anything I wanted to play.

I saw many similar comments on HN back then.

It inspired me to setup my own EC2 Windows GPU box and buy some games on steam. Neat, but a PITA so I didn't continue with my DIY setup.

Lastly Shadow cloud gaming PC has a lot of users (filed bankruptcy and recently acquired). https://shadow.tech/

I tried it out when Stadia was launched but never got it to work reliably. Despide a wired 1gb fiber connection, I still got frame drops and lags quite frequently. While I wouldn't call it unplayable, it really doesn't compare well to dedicated consoles. Even for a very casual gamer myself, I feel an Xbox Series S is a better purchase.

You played on wifi, right?

No, directly connected to the router via ethernet.

> If you can't grow during last year's strange times then you're really off to a slow start.

Exactly this

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