I wonder if game streaming services would do well on the Switch, or a theoretical Switch with fast mobile data. There's already games that only work via streaming (RE7, Hitman 3) but I'm not sure if they're popular
@kyra how's Stadia worse than other services?
@noiob besides being a subscription service that you buy games for/on top of, run by a company that's famous for ending services that just fired all of it's games staff? It's restricted to chrome and a handful of pieces of hardware. The performance is entirely tied to your proximity to one of their specific data centers. Back when they were giving away stadia time for free i couldn't even try it because I don't have a Chromecast or a pixel or use google's spyware browser
@noiob stadia combines all of the downsides of streaming games with all of the downsides of Google with more limitations and a bizarrely high rate of data usage for the youtube-tier video they're actually pushing your way
@noiob there are a good deal of stadia games that would run natively on these phones. Why the fuck do i need one of these to run a YouTube video and send inputs. My phone cost £100 and I can do that in the Xbox app or steam link just fine. I'm sure geforce now works, bet the PS now app or whatever does to. Why does my phone's OS vendor outright deny me the ability to use their service? It's not like anything on Android works properly to begin with, is this really about quality control?
@noiob these phones are all 6-12 times the price of my phone which is from 2020. I owned a phone that let me view videos in 1080p in like 2014!
@noiob also yes it does say I can enable it but why actually would I bother?
@noiob they're a fine idea given that, unlike stadia, you _can_ play them, but the speed of light is still a thing.