Too soon to be pushing this kind of service the rest of the world needs to catch up.

Google thought they could replace Facebook with Google Plus
Microsoft thought they could force kinect to gamers throat.

Lol.
Streaming will always be just an option like VR, Motion Controls, etc. It will never be mainstream for gaming.

Gameinformer tested Doom on Stadia on a controlled environment and they said...

"More to the point, I was missing shots, and it was initially difficult to time melee hits against enemies. It's not that the input lag makes Doom unplayable, but it makes it harder, and it makes you worse at the game. It's the kind of thing that would make you reboot your console and check your TV settings."

The same will happen with xCloud.

I hate these articles, no one knows the outcome of anything that has het to arrive, it's totally absurd the world we live in now a d how people think they can down play things before they have yet to be released.

Yep with mum watching the kardashians on demand tv, 2 brothers playing fortnite, sister watching on demand of x factor and dad playing division online with a household 50mb speed this ain't gonna work for shit and that's just to try and get a solid 1080p 60fps.
For a family to get 4k 60fps with the whole house using there Internet it's gonna take a average 500mb speed imo and that's the best part of £70/$80 per month.
Were still 5yrs plus away from this being a thing. Slow but steady for sure just like psnow but it ain't happening now.

Initially there will be slow adoption limited by bandwidth. With the advent of 5G and other high bandwidth tech the situation will improve and we will wonder how we ever used to game in those ole' limited boxes.

Just 5?

It's all about the games. If Google can provide good content it will work if not it's over. It's that simple. All the other features and noise are secondary.

I am very curious about Stadia. Since the OnLive debacle things have changed, but as most of you have pointed out, it is not the power of the cloud, it is the strength of the connection that will determine success or failure. Poor latency in video games and ISP data caps are killers.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau