Nothing makes me happier - sooner it's forgotten about the better. Roll it out in another 10yrs or so.

Wow how disappointing

It would have been useful know if the experience improved under a wired connection. We could then rule out flaky WiFi.

Anyone who did the Project Stream test with Assassin's Creed Odyssey (like myself) could have seen this one coming.

Even with perfect internet conditions (hardwire, high bandwidth allowance, no one else online, done at around 12am) it was lagging and stuttering with bad latency for controls.

This is great news. Bring on PS5 so the next gen can really start!

If you expected any different congrats you're gullible enough to be part of Google's target audience!

Who could have foreseen this terrible outcome?

I know wifi is required for stadia, but even if it accepted wired internet I don't think it would fix it

I read that in Ryan Gosling's voice in The Big Short

Forbes has become a joke and it's all because of this one guy, Paul Tassi. That dude is an idiot.

I knew it would be crap as soon as they announced this useless shit. Just leave gaming to the pros. Nintendo, Microsoft, & Sony. Thats how it will be for the future as it always is. I would throw in PC as well but that's an open platform.

decades ago streaming video on a 33.3kbs modem at 200x200 people said well internet doesn’t work as good as my vcr.

Maybe in a few decades game streaming will work.

It's Forbes, so, even if i'm not a Stadia fan, I take everything that comes from this site with a very tiny grain of salt.

This is not the future of gaming. If it is, I will be logging out.

I'm gonna stick with Onlive....Oh wait.

OMG this is very funny to me! This is THE ONLY negative review I've seen so far after the Embargo has been lifted. Why don't you all look at youtube for more of an honest review. I guess I should've expected N4G to be biased as normal.

All digital, streaming only future my ass.

other reviewers are positive

So just like ps4 remote play and pc streaming. Horrible lag at times. Too early for game streaming to be a big thing.

They will work it out

Wow. Even Forbes can see this turd for what it is.

Nevermind.

Who could've seen THIS coming. . .

looks like someones got a adsl line at 1.5 meg per second speeds

Lol I didn’t see this coming
Oh wait, yes I did

I get 50 mps, most people don't even get that. Thought about switching to Spectrum cable. They START at 200mps ,and it's only $44 a month. I still wouldn't get Stadia! What happens when your playing with people with a less fast connection? No thanks! In a few more years maybe.

Shocking nobody i hope

OUCH! Stick to what you know best google. Never needed you in this space anyways to be honest.

Anyone with half a brain saw this coming, the more details I heard about Stadia the more I felt it would fail. This doesn't surprised one bit we know the infrastructure isn't in place to deal with streaming games without issues.

Good I'm glad. The faster this fades out of existence the better. This has no place in gaming.

I don’t mind streaming as another option in the future . But full streaming isn’t something I’m ever going to want. You can make more money giving options and doing it right . Google should have waited until most of these issues were resolved at least . But the entire business model is shite. Too much cost for casuals , not enough options for core gamers and costs too much still.

They bombed this shit mega hard. Like damn, buddy pulled zero punches. He has godlike internet too. I told my girl if the new PS\Xbox were at least 2 years out by the time stadia launched I’d give it a shot. Well we all know how that went.

The limitations of internet, tech and the nature of distance for data (frame drops, lag, latency), automatically made this a failure. You just CAN'T replicate local gaming, through the internet/streaming.

It works perfectly fine with movies and this same model does not work with games, as interactivity is the biggest part of games.

I find it hard to believe that the 'smart people' at Google thought this would work. Anyone with a small amount of tech/internet knowledge, would know it wouldn't, so I assume the people at Google who gave the green light for this, have no tech knowledge what so ever, or didn't advise the 'tech people' of Google, if it would work.

DOA

LOL

I mean, didn't everyone see this coming?

Google, please explain to me how you can be so naive.

I don't feel as bad for Google as I do for people who are gonna pay money for this service only to have it terminated without a refund.

zzzzzzzzzzz

Ouch! Crash and burn Mav.

The problem is the model itself. It is aiming for the core market gamers like you and me but most core gamers I know anyways would never use streaming as their main mode of gaming.

I mean would casual gamers that like simple mobile games sub to Stadia for core games that most of them are not interested in?

Then there is the fact that your market is limited to those with good enough internet.

Lets be honest here. Even when they say you don't need fast broadband we all know it is bullshit.

Yes might not need it but the performance would be so bad you might as well play last gen leve graphics games.

Xcloud and PSNow MS and Sony knows its for a small segment of the market and its really for the future if certain things are in place.

Google is positioning Stadia as an alternative to next gen console gaming which I think its way over too ambitious aiming for core gamers that know the better option.

The fact they they thought paying for a subscription, and then you have to buy the game was enough for me to see this is a FAIL! That's like a mall charging a entrance fee , so you can go inside to shop.

Why is everyone so eager for this to fail?

Cant say that anyone is surprised by this. We are still at least 10 years away from this being feasible.

IGN tested it with Google Fiber 1GB up 1GB down and it had stuttering... And only he was using the bandwith...

Perhaps for 1080P60HZ could work, ill test it next year

Everyone knew it would be. Google should have just asked some regular gamers what issues would come up and we would have told them. Lag will be an issue. Cost will be an issues. Not owning games will be an issue. Data caps and internet speed will be an issue. But no, google sees money and jumped right off the cliff. Serves them right.

well you dont say. nobody seen this coming right. oh apart from the click baiters that told us it was the second coming and to throw away our outdated tech

I will pass. It might catch on for some SP games or old titles etc. But for the majority of titles. Nope.

Lag will always be a problem.

This is beautiful News!!!!

The problem is more Google than streaming, I suspect. They just don’t think things through, and then don’t support their products adequately, and then often they just pull the plug and walk away. Which doesn’t bode well for Stadia’s future.

Color me shocked...

Can't wait for the Killed by Google website to be updated with a tombstone labelled Stadia.

This Forbes article has quite a few technical fallacies when talking about the home setup.
That aside, the US internet infrastructure is horribly equipped to support this model of entertainment. While the author 'MAY' get 200+ Mbps transfer speed I doubt that is a "sustained" throughput to support Stadia, PS Now, etc.
After being paid to deal with this issue for over nine years I would start pointing my finger to the ISP bandwidth before blaming the service for the lag and quality dropouts. .

An article by gamers, for gamers, of gamers. I tip my goatsflesh fedora to you good sir. Just kill me. I have no use on this earth, much like Google Stadia

News just in, internet based services can’t magically surpass the limitations of the network.. 😮

This sort of streaming may work well in future, hell.. ps now and steam remote play etc all work decently, but not as an outright replacement for a pc/console. Google should have cooperated with another big player rather than go it solo.

Meanwhile people were doubting Apple Arcade. 😅

Internet speeds aren't where they need to be for this to work.

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