look you got more dislike for you being happy about this :p

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Take your negativity elsewhere please, nothing to see here.

@Spurg

Of all the issues that could potentially affect Stadia - latency, input lag, video compression, software ownership, the thing that concerns you most is that if Google decides to bail studios may be shut down leading to redundancies?

Your comment is simply a thinly veiled way to inject negativity into the discussion by offering up fake concern.

Possible they could just sell the studio, or just be a publisher, or have a dev house which will have a 3rd party publisher.

There is money to be made in the gaming market, so no reason for them to abandon gaming altogether should Stadia fail.

But, if they're just now opening studios, then that means a while before any content is delivered from 1st party. Unless its some low-mid tier range game, possibly episodic. Still...probably a 2 year minimum.

Have a feeling they'll be buying a lot of content the first 2-3 years, as the competition has a pretty healthy catalog of games to go up against Google.

Hate to say it, but Google seems to be rushing into the market. They got the infrastructure, and apparently the servers, but they don't even have the full Stadia API available to devs yet, and their SDK is a joke. I think they're afraid with MS now entering the market, who is really just using the Xbox/DirectX API's to fuel xCloud, and Sony, using PS API's, so both allow for easy ports because no porting is really necessary, that they were worried that they'd be too far behind to compete if they didn't lock in a modest user base early.

Epic games did the same thing when they opened up their Fortnite store to be the Epic store, and it lacked features, and they are spending a lot of money to get people to join. As it stands now, Stadia won't even launch with most of the promised features, it's questionable about what exclusive content they'll have, and they don't even that the reach that PSNow or xCloud have because it requires actual hardware from Google to access.

@Seph

I don't get it either,

I understand that it's a bold step and outside people's comfort zones, but the same people I see trying to downplay Stadia one day are singing the praises of PS Now streaming the next.

If it doesn't interest you then fine, but don't tell me how I should or shouldn't play my games - it's my money, my time, my choice.

10.78 TFLOPS and a capable CPU is exciting. I've pre ordered the Founders Edition and if it doesn't work out it's not the end of the world, I still have my X, Pro, Switch and PC, it's not like they're going anywhere anytime soon.

Game streaming is not the future, it's just an option that is part of the future. Saying it's the future is the same as saying VR is the future.

I am also a software developer and I can tell you that for certain.

It's not just stadia that people are against. PSNow has received plenty of hate, and so has xCloud. PSnow and xCloud really get relief from the negativity due to the fact that they are attached to the console war. As of now, Google doesn't have that contingent of fans to talk up their services like you see with the other platforms.

So, that begs the question, if a good chunk of the gaming community is against Stadia, and the other services aren't that appealing to them, maybe there is something about the services which makes it something people don't want...so how can one claim it's the future. Moreover, why are there so many people who feel that the future has to happen, and that the future means leaving the past behind? What's so wrong with the present that it needs to die?

PSNow started aimed at the non-console market. It shifted back to that after failures in other devices, and you know what...there were people claiming it was the future when PSNow launched. The last official report had PSNow with 700K active users. Consoles have close to 200 million users between all the various platforms, and PC gaming makes that number look small. Are you saying half a billion players are all going to shift to Stadia in the near or far future? I think this future everyone is clamoring about is about as valid as Mobile gaming being the future of gaming. It's there. It's an option. It isn't killing anything, as the traditional market keeps growing every year.

It's completely idiotic to say that some untested market, which so far with current availability has failed to capture much of anything is somehow the future so other markets are in trouble, when those other markets are seeing a rise in users every year. The logic just doesn't add up, and sounds more like people misappropriating what these services are supposed to be.

Hope that helps you guys get it a bit better.

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm