Immediate_Dust_1303 t1_iu4kylg wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:39 PM

Reply to comment by GhostalMedia in Google Stadia is dead and Nvidia GeForce Now gets a price cut – what’s going on? by Hyperion1144

They arent going to make data centers right next to all gamers houses just for gaming streaming. Thats fantasy

Yeah, like you said Stadia works surprisingly well, and it still failed spectacularly

GhostalMedia t1_iu4nhe0 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:57 PM

Worked well for ME. The point is that results varied wildly for different broadband users in different locations.

As broadband continues to improve, these connectivity barriers will slowly go away for more people and a reliable streaming business will be easier to attain.

Immediate_Dust_1303 t1_iu4olsx wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:04 PM

Broadband getting faster isnt going to make one bit of a difference at all. Latency is ALWAYS going to be an issue.

And it worked well for many people not just you. Stadia didn't have a massive drop of users. People just werent interested to begin with. that was the problem.

Console hardware is more popular than ever. Gaming streaming is always going to have latency and will be laggy

GhostalMedia t1_iu4v032 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:47 PM

Are we talking about the sub 100ms lag that folks experienced when conditions were right, or are we taking about seconds when things were not ideal?

My entire point is that way too many people experienced the latter, not the former. As ISP and hosting infrastructure continues to evolve more end users will be setup for success with streaming.

Streaming may always have too much latency to make hardcore PvP players happy, but when it works well, it totally shines for games like RDR2, Cyberpunk, etc. Problem is that too many people had completely unplayable experiences.