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i'm sorry but stadia is ad-tech nonsense

166ms input and display latency is absolutely unacceptable and it is absurd that anyone could even _begin_ to suggest this is the "future of gaming"

no. this is snake oil by a company that has gone off the rails. this is also a fucking nightmare for archival and preservation efforts.

yeah, the technology is cool! but the best case this could ever be used in is in the form of small demos after watching trailers on YouTube.

that's it. it's just for advertising.

what an enormous waste of effort.

imagine being a studio that doesn't use Unity or UE4 and having to integrate with a platform like this.

if Stadia actually takes serious root in the industry? indies are fucked. have fun

@tom no, it won't. it's almost certainly dead on arrival for anything that isn't just short youtube demos.

@shaderphantom This is just another Zeebo/Ouya nonsense. Like, sure. They're selling it as a serious competitor but skepticism is going to kill it.

@shaderphantom @Trev is it legit beyond 1/10s

I’m fairly sure I have seen that done better by smalller companies

@halcy these are somewhat uncontrolled tests run by Digital Foundry, per their video on it. the differential from playing natively on a 60hz PC monitor is ~100ms, vs. a Pixelbook over wifi, yes

@shaderphantom jesus, here I was figuring “oh google may actually be able to do this with good latency worldwide“ but I guess not?

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