I remember some people very vehemently telling me that I was dumb to be skeptical of Stadia, that it really was going to just take over the industry…
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ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Luckily, 90% of what Google goes all in on fails. I remember Stadia and Google Glass.
jj4211@lemmy.world 6 days ago
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I still don’t understand how Stadia got out the door the way it did. It was the exact same business model Onlive tried back in the day. And it predictably failed the exact same way.
jj4211@lemmy.world 6 days ago
From what I call, the advocates kept saying:
- OnLive was just too soon, the internet needed to be better
- Google had just so much more resources at their disposal they could make it happen
Of course, no one ever explained why I would want to pay full price for a game and also have to pay a monthly fee to access it once purchased, which was the most mind boggling facet of Google’s concept to me, even more boggling than trying to make games render server side when the cheapest end user device can just locally render PS3, maybe PS4 level graphics nowadays.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
In that case, we should encourage google to go all-in on climate change, racism, and war; they should back the conservative party as well. Then 90% of those will fail.