@CrimsonWing69
As other people have exhaustively explained already, there's a big difference between streaming as an option, and streaming as the exclusive way games are delivered. I don't own an Xbox, but assuming I did and I paid for Gamepass, obviously I'd choose to download the games. At that point, if I also have the option to stream a game to my phone, while the experience is likely to be laggy, it doesn't really limit me in any way.
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The crazy thing to me is that they didn't even try to be competitive with what is arguably their most relevant competition (Game Pass). Obviously some are against subscriptions entirely, but for those who are persuadable, Game Pass is leagues better as a value than Stadia, which requires subscription payments and individual purchases.
And the "well you have to pay for a console" is not even that strong of an argument for Stadia, since the upfront cost is $130...
Hoping bad ideas fail, and celebrating when they do, does not equal wishing the company or it's employees death. Google has many good products and services, and I have no issue with their continued success in those areas.
Lol the silence from the "this is the future of games" and "aren't more options better" people on here is deafening.
Honestly it feels like they gave up on it well before launch. It certainly feels like they haven't marketed it much. In a year everyone will have forgotten about this and it will probably be little more than a blip in Google's accounting records.
Yep. Notably the masses of people who claim to be so desperate for Full BC nowadays were nowhere to be found when Sony put hardware BC in the PS3.
@badz149
10 million was a reference to PS3 since that generation is done, and PS3 sold around that in Japan. PS4 is selling similarly there year by year, so it's a useful number.
Anyway, your comment illustrates my point: even if you assume 8 million, it's 8 million that are basically uncontested (XONE is under a million in Japan, maybe even under half a million). In a close gen like last one was (obviously this one isn't, but just as a hypoth...
And neither unit has had any impact on the trajectory of the overall race. It's almost like a new, more powerful console isn't as enticing if there are going to be literally zero games designed from the ground up for its specs, rather than designed for a much weaker system and just given graphical improvements.
The problem for MS is they can't compete outside the United States. 360 absolutely dominated here, but got trounced everywhere else. I mean, Japan is not a huge market for home consoles anymore, but if the PlayStation basically gets basically an uncontested 10 million unit gap each generation, that matters a lot in the overall. Although MS does better in Europe than Japan, they still don't come close to PlayStation.
XONE is actually pretty competitive in the US. Tha...
Gosh I always forget they shipped that thing without HDMI. I'm sure we all have bad memories of being at friend's house and seeing that they had their Xbox 360 set up on an HDTV through composite cables, while they obliviously talked about how they couldn't believe how good the graphics in Gears of War were. My eyes hurt just thinking about it.
Possibly, although the "well video works with streaming now" argument doesn't factor in the difference that a video you are streaming isn't reliant on your input in the way that games are.
Who could have foreseen this terrible outcome?
Exactly. No one doubts Stadia's capability (or any other streaming platform) in locations with the best possible internet connection. Which will of course be how the platform is reviewed, even though it should be reviewed by going to a random town in the middle of the country and trying to play on the mediocre internet connection there.
Wow, that was a loaded month.
It's my favorite of the MGS series. 1 is great obviously, and 2 is good, but went a little off the deep end; i.e. camp for camp's sake, rather than any real service to the story. 3 was a great balance of the MGS campiness with a great story and gameplay.
Yep.
Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the critics now haven't ever played any of the old Lucasarts, Pre-EA deal Star Wars games. It was pretty evident around the launch of 2015 Battlefront that most of the people talking about it had never played the PS2 era battlefronts, and now it feels like some of the reviewers of this have no experience playing as a Jedi except the OP nonsense in the new battlefront games.
This is why I never understood why they never gave Remedy the push they deserved when they were with Xbox.
Fair enough. I frequent the Oculus Quest subreddit, and it can be jarring to be on here and see the "lol VR is a total fail" crowd whenever VR gets brought up.
Your music/movies comparison doesn't work. Aside from the remarkably obvious difference of input lag, major streaming services in those areas (Spotify/Netflix) have actually moved toward allowing downloads in addition to streaming. If Stadia had that, I'd have no problem with it (I don't buy into or care about the "we need discs" argument).