Google recently launched Stadia, its OnLive-like streaming service for AAA games, and to no one's surprise who's ever been involved with streaming services like OnLive (like, um, say, me), the reaction so far has not been surprising:
- Google’s Stadia Just Ain’t It (Kotaku)
- Google Stadia Wants You to Replace Your Video Game Console. Don’t. (New York Times)
- Google Stadia is here, but there are still huge issues (CNN)
The amazing thing is this was entirely a foreseeable reaction. Stadia is leading with action-oriented AAA games where split second reaction times are essential to gameplay. Which brings up the core problem with streaming services for that kind of content:
There is simply. No. Fricking. Way. To get past. The speed. Of goddamn light. I mean seriously. Dude:
I fell off ledges in Tomb Raider because of lag. I flat-out lost Mortal Kombat fights I would have won otherwise. I died to Destiny enemies I would roast with ease on any other platform. I managed to slog through the entirety of the Mortal Kombat 11 campaign (which I genuinely wanted to play, as I hadn’t yet) and probably at least one a match I ran into lag issues. Even if it’s just for a moment, it can cost you an entire fight in a game like that.
Fortunately the alternative for Stadia is equally foreseeable: Shift their content library entirely to games which don't depend on split second reaction times. Specifically, to MMOs and virtual worlds. Elder Scrolls Online is coming to Stadia next year, and that's a good start, but there's a whole host of virtual worlds/MMOs that aren't typically considered AAA that would be equally at home, on Stadia: Roblox and VRChat are obvious candidates, but even grand old Second Life would be a hit on Stadia. I should know: I helped launched OnLive's Second Life solution, and it was gaining quite a lot of customer traction (despite the subscription fee) before the company's unexpected acquisition.
Hopefully Stadia shifts sooner than OnLive, before Google just decides to pull the plug.
You can’t make light go faster but you can make it travel a shorter distance. Basically what I’m saying is Google should make a smaller version of their servers that people can have in their own home and oops we just reinvented consoles
Posted by: Adeon Writer | Friday, November 22, 2019 at 06:21 AM
Also streaming services will never work for VR, even the 80 ms lag from wireless streaming from your router is enough to make people sick, forget getting it from a google server.
Posted by: Still Adeon Writer | Friday, November 22, 2019 at 06:26 AM
Stadia will be a huge success, they have unlimited resources remember?
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