I just still don’t get how you avoid the problem of physics causing latency that just isn’t great for gaming.
Netflix’s test of streaming games is small, but it’s poised to be a big deal
Submitted 1 year ago by enu@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think it’s about getting more subscribers and then canceling it like google.
Chozo@kbin.social 1 year ago
If you've got a decent enough connection, it's honestly not as detrimental as you might think. I played on Stadia from its launch day up until it closed earlier this year. I was able to fairly consistently place top of the scoreboard in my cross-platform PVP matches in Destiny 2, during both the skill-based and connection-based matchmaking metas. I think I'm something like 500+ miles from the closest Google datacenter, too.
AnusBesamus@feddit.de 1 year ago
In Europe good connected homes (basically cities) can have a ping of 10-20 ms. Most people won’t notice mich of a lav when they casually play on their couch.
Un4@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah was getting 3ms for stadia. GeForceNow is 15ms right now. During game play there is absolutely no fealing of lag at all. The only way to notice it is to move a mouse in cricles in the menus, where very slight ruberbanding can be felt.
JohnEdwa@kbin.social 1 year ago
If the service is decent enough with servers close by, it really isn't bad at all. In a PCgamer test, the input latency for Metro Exodus and Destiny 2 went from 46ms and 51ms local to 96ms and 75ms from GeForce Now, and 179ms and 129ms from Stadia.
For comparison, back when Tekken 7 was released on the PS4, it had 120ms of input lag.
ijeff@lemdro.id 1 year ago
It can be surprisingly decent depending on your connection. I’ve wirelessly streamed VR from my home computer in another city and it was very comfortable and playable.
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Every game stream platform has been a failure. I have no idea why they think this will be any different.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a blog post today, Mike Verdu, vice president for games at Netflix, states that the streaming content company is rolling out “a limited beta test to a small number of members in Canada and the UK on select TVs starting today, and on PCs and Macs through Netflix.com on supported browsers in the next few weeks.”
Given the mess that Linux users encounter with web-based DRM, and Netflix’s peculiar device support, it’s not a likely bet, at least for now.
As we noted a few months ago, Netflix Games is poised in some ways to succeed beyond the limited impact Apple Arcade or Google’s Play Pass have made.
This is not a value judgment, as there are some well-regarded titles in the mix that may make their way to streaming, including Moonlighter, TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, Laya’s Horizon, World of Goo Remastered, Shovel Knight, Immortality, Desta: The Memories Between, Reigns, and Into the Breach.
Netflix seems to have big ambitions for games, recently investing heavily in its studios and third-party titles.
Its latest ploy for even more access could mean the entry of a new, quirky competitor for our already highly sought-after screen time.
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LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks bot.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If. And this is the biggest if in history. But if Netflix and other streaming sites had the bandwidth and computing power to take on Nvidia.
Fuck. Just new era of Gaming. If you could stream games to Netflix Disney apple whatever. Play games on tvs everywhere. That would be an enormous change. I doubt it would happen as Nvidia is still struggling to get games on its service as devs just refuse.
But hopefully with a shake up we the consumers can finally get a bit of price parity.
Stop locking games behind consoles or overpriced gaming rigs. Far more competition in the gaming world would be epic.
Plus you could rock up anywhere with a controller in hand. Sign in and play to your hearts content.
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Crozekiel@kbin.social 1 year ago
The problem is we've already kinda seen what that brings to the industry through mobile gaming, and it's been universally terribly not just for mobile but for the entire gaming industry.
I dunno, maybe this would be different, but to me it is just another test-bed of innovating new ways to dick down the consumers that will eventually spread to the rest of the world again.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably
Changetheview@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The technical challenges are real and there’s definitely some time before it goes mainstream, but it seems almost inevitable for this to be the future of gaming.
Streaming movies was once thought unrealistic. Subscription music used to be a fringe product. Even online gaming through consoles/PCs has gone through tremendous change.
Like all the other streaming products, the creators are the ones positioned to get the short end of the stick. Hopefully that can be avoided.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh I don’t know about that. Money will stop innovation. It always does. Microsoft and Sony don’t want their cash ciw being split up.
If they stop companies from locking it. That would be barely something
primalanimist@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I’ve been playing their games on Android for a while. My favorites are the Stranger Things Match game and Spiritfarer. They’ve got several others but I have not played them all.
Phanatik@kbin.social 1 year ago
As someone who likes to preserve games, this is just another form of gatekeeping. They get to hold onto all the games and once the platform decides a certain game isn't worth keeping around, there it goes and good luck seeing it again if someone like me hasn't backed up a copy. So many games locked to the PS3 that will never see a resurgence. I struggle to see a situation where Netflix's service will be any different.
LoafyLemon@kbin.social 1 year ago
Oh, because Google Stadia was such a roaring success, I'm sure that Netflix will totally not turn that into a sinking ship either.
warmaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stadia failed because of their business model. Xbox cloud gaming is working fine. If Netflix can offer a good catalog, it will become mainstream in no time.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 1 year ago
And that's when they'll raise prices.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stadia was really good. I’d prefer to pay a bit more to avoid the vendor lock-in and have some portability, but what they offered was fairly priced.
In fact the only reason I stopped using Stadia - or any cloud gaming for that matter - is that I like to build and have my own machine and was fortunate to be able to afford one.
citrusface@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stadia was amazing, google couldn’t fucking wrap their head around the fact they needed to package it with other things. Why I. The flying fuck they didn’t have a storage + stadia + YouTube + music plan k have NO fucking idea but if they did it would have been a roaring success
Anyone that used it can tell you the service was immaculate - they just would never stick to a fucking plan or properly advertise it.
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Google doesn’t understand products that don’t ‘change the world’. There are no decent successes to them, there’s YouTube, then there’s Google play music, even though the second is good it doesn’t get widespread acclaim so it’s garbage to them.
_finger_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anyone remember OnLive?
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
IIRC, you had to buy the games to play them. A subscription service would work much better
citrusface@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That was the perfect thing about stadia - there was no subscription needed. You bought the game. You could play the game. That was it. No need to have monthly fees, you just got to play the games you owned.