*full refund if you purchased through the Google Play store. Get it right.
Now that's cool that they're doing that, but I'd like to know what percentage of hardware was bought through the store before I get all warm inside over their generosity.
Can you even buy stadia shit in stores? I got a "play and watch" pack for free(shipping and everything) because I had YouTube premium which was the $100 pack that came with the controller and a google cast 4k with 6 months of premium and it was through the play store and I had no idea stadia had such a pack until I got the email about getting the pack for free and I frequented tech stores at the time.
>*full refund if you purchased through the Google Play store. Get it right.
Stadia "hardware" was mostly sold from the Play Store, i don't think it was on store shelves
>pathetically halfhearted attempt
Summarizes every new project Google tries to hype in the last 10 years. They are the most flaky and weak willed out of all the big tech companies.
Say what you want about Microsoft but there's a company that wasn't afraid of sinking obscene amounts of money past the point where everyone tells them to stop
That's double weird to me considering google can afford that shit easily, yeah.
The only company I can think of that compulsively bails out of shit quick like that is/was FOX network, and I'm not even sure they're still doing that.
Why would I want to promote companies doing moronic shit nobody outside of their overpaid echochamber thinks is a good idea? Google had the right idea pulling the plug.
Google fired all the tech bros and hired a bunch of pierced dyed hairs and teacup poodle handbag hoes. Literally every successful piece of code they possess is legacy from when google started becoming profitable. They will never ever invent anything new that's successful because muh WEF ESG rating.
Google doesn't really give a shit about being a tech corporation anymore. There's more and easier money to be made in analytics and pushing ads onto children whose parental figures are their youtube stars.
This is giving me real deja vu, like I feel like I saw that comeback in another context and I feel it could be used in many other contexts. I'm seeing the code of the matrix here.
You became aberrant last Thursday, I'm surprised you haven't noticed until now. Patch coming in though, should be done by Monday, until then just write me off as a shitposter saying nothing and don't go stressing things.
The only reason game streaming tech is being pushed is because there are morons in corporate who think that the money they lose to piracy is greater than the money they'd spend on operating costs and the customers they'd lose due to quality issues.
Thank an American and their telcom backbone that was built in the 1960s for this. They'll never upgrade their infrastructure either. We're safe from cloudshit because burgers will never have anything but 5 megabit DSL.
>Thank an American and their telcom backbone that was built in the 1960s for this
More like thank the universe for having a hard speed limit. People with fiber located in the same cities as Stadia's hub servers still had unplayably shitty lag that only casual morons wouldn't be affected by since their skill level is lower than the handicap
>Thank an American and their telcom backbone that was built in the 1960s for this. They'll never upgrade their infrastructure either. We're safe from cloudshit because burgers will never have anything but 5 megabit DSL.
>t. technological illiterate
not only are you just wrong with your statement, you can't make the speed of light go faster, you fricking moron
You're not that fast, sanic. If the switching equipment were at least from the early 2000s everywhere the "input lag" would be no different than from your controller to the plug. That speed of light thing you keep sperging about is pretty impressive. The difference in the time it takes for it to get from your finger to the console or your finger to the other side of the planet is so minuscule that you can't even imagine it. The limitation is terrible, ancient infrastructure.
In all honesty them refunding both hardware and software purchases is pretty based especially for something thats been out for several years. Morons are rarely given such a nice deal after making stupid mistakes like that but I guess Google just assumes they'll spend the refund on whatever other stupid shit they put out.
I'm pretty sure they risk getting raped in a massive class action lawsuit if they didn't just opt to give everyone their money back. I don't think they want to be the ones to set precedent on the whole ownership of digital goods question either.
>I'm pretty sure they risk getting raped in a massive class action lawsuit if they didn't just opt to give everyone their money back
Not even remotely. Services have done this shit dozens of times in the past half decade and have never been successfully sued.
They absolutley have to refund the games to keep peoples faith and trust in subscription and "You will own nothing and be happy" models. They will take whatever hit necessary
>I want to buy Jade's game!
so that's where that mem started
I wish inhouse streaming was better
didn't the creator get sued and ubisoft tried really hard to take that comic down
oh yeah it was exactly as I remember it >Ubisoft has recently learned that the extremely offensive pornographic image (the ?Image?) >accessible at <deadlink>, a copy of which is attached hereto <kek>, is being used on your website located at ><somethingawful> and/or other related sites, including, but not limited to, <forums.somethingawful>. >Such Image and misuse of the ASSASSIN?S CREED mark constitute trademark infringement, dilution, and unfair competition in violation of common law trademark rights, > >Furthermore, the Image?s blatant, vile, and unauthorized misappropriation of Ms. Raymond?s name and likeness, and your conduct in using the Image on your Site, >have caused immeasurable harm to Ms. Raymond?s reputation and career, >and constitute an egregious infringement of Ms. Raymond?s personal rights and privacy rights.
Bought into the ground floor floor of VR rather than be the latest idiot to try and force game streaming to become a thing. I fully expect the Meta venture to fricking tank hard though. Like hilariously hard. Maybe it will succeed if Zuck runs Facebook at a lost for the next 20 years but I doubt his shareholders will let him just do that.
He's not going to succeed. He rushed into software monetization too quickly. It would have been better to just focus on the hardware under the Oculus brand with a standard gaming storefront, and let others figure out how to further monetize. Being the first-to-market isn't always a good thing, especially in a new technology paradigm, how many of the early leaders of the internet are still leaders and profitable? Facebook itself is a good example of how being later can actually be a good thing.
Why Microsoft could succeed in this market while other big tech companies couldn't?
Where's the magic that made MS could have 20+ years of history in gaming.
MSoft is actively ruthless and has been since its inception, Zuckerberg/Bezos are a pinky toe on Ballmers foot in comparison to power projection levels. 3 of the 4 american tech giants are millenial and passive aggressive business operations and none of them want to step on each others rackets besides MSoft because its oldguard competing against them.
Microsoft made an actual games console that that was legitimalely really powerful in comparison to the other shit on the market at the time, they also already had a bit of a presense in the PC gaming market because their OS was the best to run and develop games on and they published/own the rights to a few PC only franchies like Mechwarriors and Flight Sim.
Microsoft also has their own original IPs and a wide range of good exclusives, mostly Halo, that enticed all sorts of gamers into buying the Xbox console. They should've brought Bioware
The problem with Stadia is that its only selling point was """"accessibility"""" via streaming which is an issue in of itself and largely pointless thanks to Xbox's play anywhere and Steams remote play. They also had 0 original content so there was no incentive to ever try out Stadia.
Amazon games failed because Amazon themselves suck ass, the actual devs are fine but due to coporate trend chasing and not willing to properly invest in their properties if they aren't instantly viral their shit continuously fails, or fails because of coporate meddling.
because with Gamepass you download the entire game and is lauched locally. No streaming or lag, because your console is rendering the software, Gamepass is just a online key.
>Where's the magic that made MS could have 20+ years of history in gaming.
Halo. Without the original Halo games Xbox would have been completely fricking dead.
If you mean VR, the answer is that Oculus is a loss leader. Zucc is pouring Facebook money into selling headsets at cost price or maybe even at a loss in order to corner the emerging VR market. And it works, if you look at Steam stats, 2/3 headsets out there are from Oculus, with half of all sets being Quest 2.
Google could've succeeded if they had a similar approach, for example having a good selection of free games come with the subscription, like Game Pass but with streaming. It's not like they don't have the money for it.
It's like steam but you don't even get the courtesy of being able to locally install your vidya to provide the illusion of ownership. That's it really.
It was. The wet dream of every big publisher since it makes piracy irrelevant. Goys pay to stream games and have no control over availability and no direct access to the games themselves. They can pull any game or modify any game at any time for any reason and you as consumer just pound sand since you never bought shit, just a subscription to stream the game through them. It's a complete scam.
One of the reasons Stadia bombed was a moronic business model (having to buy games instead of a single subscription that geta you entire library), Netflix probably won't make the same mistake.
That still leaves the issues of no games and infrastructure though
They already launched the service and it's basically just apple arcade but on Android too.
No streaming, you download the games on mobile and play them regularly. I don't know how often it needs to connect online to verify your netflix sub though.
it's so much worse than that. at least with netflix, you can watch anything they have when you pay the subscription. stadia was paying the subscription so you could BUY THE GAME. and that purchase didn't transfer over to steam, or a console, or anything. they would literally hold your games hostage forever, requiring constant payments on them.
Its basically a website you connect to. Instead of streaming video like YouTube, it streams games. You ever see twitch plays pokemon? Imagine that but you're the only person playing.
>Works for Sony >Makes a shit ton of studios that don't do anything >Goes to Atari and does nothing >Goes to MS and evidently tried to push them to to having a home entertainment system then gets kicked out >Was fricking VP for stadia
How does this guy have a job?
Boomer HR relics don't look at actual qualificationa they just see "old guy with a ton of experience in the field" and hire on the spot or one of their frends/family recommends someone and they hire them on the spot. It's why so many huge businesses make moronic decisions that even random people off the street laugh at; they keep hiring the same con men who know nothing over and over because their HR department is too lazy to vet people.
>tech that everyone knew was bullshit and wouldn't work >no games >google owned soulless product >pajeet shitstain smear looking logo
What were they thinking?
get a woka
SJW GAMES/GAMES MADE BY SJW's THAT BOMBED >BattleFieldV >Mirrors Edge Catalyst >Wolfenstein 2 >Wolfenstein young lesbians >Anthem >Mafia 3 >Watch Dogs 2 >Mass Effect Andromeda >Lawbreakers >Sunset@ "NOT THE FRICKING OVERDRIVE ONE" >Revolution 60 >Depression quest >Life is strange 2 >Battleborn >Pillars of Eternity 2 >Dishonored 2 >Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider >Tacoma >Virginia >Where The Water Tastes Like Wine >River City Girls >Tyranny >Drawn to Death >Agents of Mayhem >Bless Online >Hyper Universe >Telltale Games- the whole company >Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear >Dead Rising 4 >Bleeding Edge >2064: Read Only Memories >INVISIBLE >Orphan >DmC: DMC >Thi4f >MARVEL AVENGERS >Sam & Max Remastered >Medal of honor VR >=GOOGLE STADIA= >VTMB2 = BEFORE IT EVEN LAUNCHED >Crash 4 >RETURNAL >Destruction all stars >Magic: Legends >CRUCIBLE >DoubleFine = the whole company >deathflop >joyless adventures of empathy woman >RESIDENT EVIL 4 VR >BATTLEFIELD 2042 >battletoads 2020 >KOTOR REMAKE = BEFORE IT EVEN LAUNCHED >AI the troony files >AI the troony files 41% initiative >Grid Legends >Back 4 blood >phantasy star online 2 >watch doges region >MANKIND DIVIDED >VODEO GAMES = WHOLE COMPANY >saints row HUZZAH
NON SJW GAMES THAT GOT POZZLED AND SUFFERED FROM IT >Control >GEARS 5 >Wildstar >REmake 3 >FF7R PS4 >WoW >no more heroes 3 >TABLETOP SIMULATOR >tokyo mirage sessions >guardians of the galaxy
SJW GAMES THAT SOLD WELL >Borderlands 3 >Pathfinder >CoD fanfic
Soon gta6
NON sjw games that used Woketards as free marketing and sold the sexy as DLC >Mortal Kombat 11 >DoA6 >GG STRIVE
>Literally called this as an absolute moronic idea the micro fricking second it was first shown at w/e the frick E3 or event it was >flash forward now with common sense
WOAOOOAOOAOAHH WHO EVER SAW THIS HAPPENINGGGGGGGG
Videogame streaming is going to have it's day in the hay sometime.
Reality is this was just another way for google to build proprietary information in their company that they'll have to utilize in the future as the backbone on how to handle similar projects. They do this a ton just to stay relevant and have their hands in the pie of any and everything technical related they can.
Just like Google Fiber being a big thing for them.
They wanted that experience on making big infrastructure changes in determining how easy it is to get the upper hand in business dealing with network providers.
They never intended for it to go nationwide because it was always just about having their hand in the pie too.
Yet another one gets into the mass grave of google projects
Man, imagine having so much frick you money you can start and kill hundreds of projects like throwing shit at the wall for DECADES
>Buy $3,000 PC >Buy $1,000 in Steam games >Never actually play any games >On death bed wondering why I wasted time being a homosexual on Ganker
Are you this guay?
except that playing your own games is up to you wasting time and not failed elements in the artificial chain servers/provider/infostructure etc etc, hike your iq
I uses Stadia since June 2020. I got to play 30-40 games in all that time, and they are refunding me for EVERYTHING. I got to play all those games for free.
Because now corporations like to boast that they are wonderful, virtuous fighters for equality and social justice and if they frick up it's a blemish on the political movement they are at the top of
I supposedly got 30 free days or something with my new TV but when I click the app I gotta make a account and only see the normal free trial..
Will I still be able to sign up I want to play Lost Judgement without buying it
Not anymore. Once it was the lead in AI tech (circa 2010) and lossy compression (circa 2010 too). Nowadays, it is mostly relevant for ads, political suppression of news and youtube videos, ads on youtube video, and that's it. Even their translation tech is failing behind. To the Russian search engine of all things, and also to Deepl.
Also there are some Linux kernel coders that are paid by Google to do some Google stuff, but they're mostly keeping it all in-house and not in the kernel tree, because their ideas aren't easily integrable and wholly about Android. Also their ideas are often bad. Not badly implemented, just not being natural. They're basically just coding whatever is useful in whatever way without care, sometimes ask Linus to integrate it back, gets a slap in the face because frick no, and goes on their merry way. Not bad people, but Google obviously doesn't really care about Linux dev.
Google Colab has some sway over machine learning and machine learning learning today still. It is used by students and teachers of the field to teach and develop AI. I would say Colab it is the entire relevance Google has in the tech industry nowadays.
They only waited so long to pull the plug so that the last generation of terminally online nerds wouldn't have started the biggest "I TOLD YOU SO!" campaign in tech history.
I’m seeing a lot of angry devs who had ports to Stadia scheduled for the next couple of months getting pissed off that they found out about this through Twitter and not through direct e-mails. So Google are still finding ways to frick Stadia up now.
>company make endless failures without any repercussions because they're running the biggest surveillance project the world as ever seen and aren't allowed to fail
amazing. Must be amazing to be an executive at google and just coming up with complete bullshit all day and have endless money to throw at it
>Google returns the money >Everybody who bought Stadia gets full refunds >People literally got free controllers out of the deal they can use long after Stadia >Games they bought they can just purchase elsewhere for cheaper on sale years later now after they launched
This looks like a clear W for google at pulling the plug. I don't remember the last time an experiment people invested millions into ended up failing and the guys behind it coming out as clean as Google here.
Reality is worldwide infrastructure just isn't ready for streaming games, and with capitalist corruption at the highest level in all of our media broadcasting utility companies Stadia missed the mark by 2 decades, at least. If not more, considering the speeds needed for it is what the Media companies promised us in the late 90s would happen by today. Before it just funneled into their yacht funds.
>this will be the future! >stop denying it you luddite >dies
whats wrong with techgays thinking every little thing will be the "future" being realistic to them causes so much ass hurt it's unreal. just like reddit when time cook said "Not Too Long From Now, You'll Wonder How You Led Your Life Without AR" they practically jizzed their pants and have been screaming at people who say it's silly.
Every stadiagay gets a full refund so they honestly kinda won.
*full refund if you purchased through the Google Play store. Get it right.
Now that's cool that they're doing that, but I'd like to know what percentage of hardware was bought through the store before I get all warm inside over their generosity.
Can you even buy stadia shit in stores? I got a "play and watch" pack for free(shipping and everything) because I had YouTube premium which was the $100 pack that came with the controller and a google cast 4k with 6 months of premium and it was through the play store and I had no idea stadia had such a pack until I got the email about getting the pack for free and I frequented tech stores at the time.
>*full refund if you purchased through the Google Play store. Get it right.
Stadia "hardware" was mostly sold from the Play Store, i don't think it was on store shelves
How so? just curious. Asking for a friend.
So you are telling me in the end they owned everything?
yes and for free
No because there giving the games back, only to create goodwill when the next rugpull doesn't come with refunds (No refunds)
>giving Google an interest-free loan for 3 years is 'winning'
They also get to write it off on their taxes, so really we paid them to save money on their taxes, so they got paid twice.
Their money is worth less than when they bought it due to the inflation. They lost.
Oh no my Stadia games
The speed of light remains undefeated
While I don't believe in the cloud streaming of games in general. I am still shocked at what a pathetically halfhearted attempt the Stadia was.
>pathetically halfhearted attempt
Summarizes every new project Google tries to hype in the last 10 years. They are the most flaky and weak willed out of all the big tech companies.
Say what you want about Microsoft but there's a company that wasn't afraid of sinking obscene amounts of money past the point where everyone tells them to stop
That's double weird to me considering google can afford that shit easily, yeah.
The only company I can think of that compulsively bails out of shit quick like that is/was FOX network, and I'm not even sure they're still doing that.
Why would I want to promote companies doing moronic shit nobody outside of their overpaid echochamber thinks is a good idea? Google had the right idea pulling the plug.
Google fired all the tech bros and hired a bunch of pierced dyed hairs and teacup poodle handbag hoes. Literally every successful piece of code they possess is legacy from when google started becoming profitable. They will never ever invent anything new that's successful because muh WEF ESG rating.
Google doesn't really give a shit about being a tech corporation anymore. There's more and easier money to be made in analytics and pushing ads onto children whose parental figures are their youtube stars.
They are the Square Enix of tech companies
G**gle is garbage, most (95%) of their shit flops
took them long enough
I love it when techgays get slapped in the face with reality
This is giving me real deja vu, like I feel like I saw that comeback in another context and I feel it could be used in many other contexts. I'm seeing the code of the matrix here.
You became aberrant last Thursday, I'm surprised you haven't noticed until now. Patch coming in though, should be done by Monday, until then just write me off as a shitposter saying nothing and don't go stressing things.
what the frick
Haha, Ganker is so funny
>dude stop having fun
We are having so much fun, I just love shitposting schizo posts and convincing them their delusions are real so they freak out.
The only reason game streaming tech is being pushed is because there are morons in corporate who think that the money they lose to piracy is greater than the money they'd spend on operating costs and the customers they'd lose due to quality issues.
Thank an American and their telcom backbone that was built in the 1960s for this. They'll never upgrade their infrastructure either. We're safe from cloudshit because burgers will never have anything but 5 megabit DSL.
Thank you burgers and Aussies
no one would look back at the miniscule kengugay market
>Thank an American and their telcom backbone that was built in the 1960s for this
More like thank the universe for having a hard speed limit. People with fiber located in the same cities as Stadia's hub servers still had unplayably shitty lag that only casual morons wouldn't be affected by since their skill level is lower than the handicap
>Thank an American and their telcom backbone that was built in the 1960s for this. They'll never upgrade their infrastructure either. We're safe from cloudshit because burgers will never have anything but 5 megabit DSL.
>t. technological illiterate
not only are you just wrong with your statement, you can't make the speed of light go faster, you fricking moron
Black person if every network segment between you and the server was 10gig fiber your little monkey brain would never perceive any input lag.
>MUH GIGGITY BITS = LATENCY
HOLY TECH ILLITERATE Black personINOS
You're not that fast, sanic. If the switching equipment were at least from the early 2000s everywhere the "input lag" would be no different than from your controller to the plug. That speed of light thing you keep sperging about is pretty impressive. The difference in the time it takes for it to get from your finger to the console or your finger to the other side of the planet is so minuscule that you can't even imagine it. The limitation is terrible, ancient infrastructure.
you know literally nothing and should shut the frick up
this will be your last reply
Cloud is the future. The power of the cloud.
We did it, Xbox xisters, we won. xCloud will be ascendant.
>xcloud
barf
I remember this from like 2012, good times
>Nintendo is still trying to piss games at people through the cloud
you are a worthless moron
Spoken like a true Stadia fan. Stop licking the windows on the short bus on your way to school too.
They won, beta tested the future of gaming and getting a full refund in return.
>Mediocre ports with obscene input lag
>but they won tho!
I don't think so, Tim.
Those are the same garbage games on Steam and Switch
In all honesty them refunding both hardware and software purchases is pretty based especially for something thats been out for several years. Morons are rarely given such a nice deal after making stupid mistakes like that but I guess Google just assumes they'll spend the refund on whatever other stupid shit they put out.
I'm pretty sure they risk getting raped in a massive class action lawsuit if they didn't just opt to give everyone their money back. I don't think they want to be the ones to set precedent on the whole ownership of digital goods question either.
>I'm pretty sure they risk getting raped in a massive class action lawsuit if they didn't just opt to give everyone their money back
Not even remotely. Services have done this shit dozens of times in the past half decade and have never been successfully sued.
They absolutley have to refund the games to keep peoples faith and trust in subscription and "You will own nothing and be happy" models. They will take whatever hit necessary
Why didn't you save her Ganker?
I wish inhouse streaming was better
didn't the creator get sued and ubisoft tried really hard to take that comic down
>I want to buy Jade's game!
so that's where that mem started
oh yeah it was exactly as I remember it
>Ubisoft has recently learned that the extremely offensive pornographic image (the ?Image?)
>accessible at <deadlink>, a copy of which is attached hereto <kek>, is being used on your website located at
><somethingawful> and/or other related sites, including, but not limited to, <forums.somethingawful>.
>Such Image and misuse of the ASSASSIN?S CREED mark constitute trademark infringement, dilution, and unfair competition in violation of common law trademark rights,
>
>Furthermore, the Image?s blatant, vile, and unauthorized misappropriation of Ms. Raymond?s name and likeness, and your conduct in using the Image on your Site,
>have caused immeasurable harm to Ms. Raymond?s reputation and career,
>and constitute an egregious infringement of Ms. Raymond?s personal rights and privacy rights.
I can't believe I fell for both ouya and stadia
>got a free chromecast and a controller
Thanks google
heh..
>2017
>The first console lets player take their home system on-the-go
uhhhhh Switch bros? Want to explain this?
Yeah, that's talking about the Switch
The Switch, is that a console for people transitioning between genders? I never heard of that, but it doesn't surprise me.
What were they thinking? No seriously, why associate Stadia with commercially failed products?
>game has foreshadowing
>Google enters gaming - Fails
>Amazon enters gaming - Fails
>Facebook enters gaming - Succeeds?
What was zucks secret?
>What was zucks secret?
not streaming games and chasing the vr dragon
Bought into the ground floor floor of VR rather than be the latest idiot to try and force game streaming to become a thing. I fully expect the Meta venture to fricking tank hard though. Like hilariously hard. Maybe it will succeed if Zuck runs Facebook at a lost for the next 20 years but I doubt his shareholders will let him just do that.
Metaverse is going to flop hard, he needs to switch gears before Oculus shuts down
He's not going to succeed. He rushed into software monetization too quickly. It would have been better to just focus on the hardware under the Oculus brand with a standard gaming storefront, and let others figure out how to further monetize. Being the first-to-market isn't always a good thing, especially in a new technology paradigm, how many of the early leaders of the internet are still leaders and profitable? Facebook itself is a good example of how being later can actually be a good thing.
Why Microsoft could succeed in this market while other big tech companies couldn't?
Where's the magic that made MS could have 20+ years of history in gaming.
MSoft is actively ruthless and has been since its inception, Zuckerberg/Bezos are a pinky toe on Ballmers foot in comparison to power projection levels. 3 of the 4 american tech giants are millenial and passive aggressive business operations and none of them want to step on each others rackets besides MSoft because its oldguard competing against them.
Microsoft made an actual games console that that was legitimalely really powerful in comparison to the other shit on the market at the time, they also already had a bit of a presense in the PC gaming market because their OS was the best to run and develop games on and they published/own the rights to a few PC only franchies like Mechwarriors and Flight Sim.
Microsoft also has their own original IPs and a wide range of good exclusives, mostly Halo, that enticed all sorts of gamers into buying the Xbox console. They should've brought Bioware
The problem with Stadia is that its only selling point was """"accessibility"""" via streaming which is an issue in of itself and largely pointless thanks to Xbox's play anywhere and Steams remote play. They also had 0 original content so there was no incentive to ever try out Stadia.
Amazon games failed because Amazon themselves suck ass, the actual devs are fine but due to coporate trend chasing and not willing to properly invest in their properties if they aren't instantly viral their shit continuously fails, or fails because of coporate meddling.
And you need a special controller for use Stadia and only works with Stadia itself. Imagine have a bricked controller of a dead service
because with Gamepass you download the entire game and is lauched locally. No streaming or lag, because your console is rendering the software, Gamepass is just a online key.
Because Microsoft ACTUALLY MADE GAMES, LOTS OF THEN, FOR ALL KINDS OF TASTES
Amazon made some dumb MMO, facebook I don't even know if they did anything, Google at best shoved some money on indie devs with half done projects.
Imagine getting into "gaming" and not making games. What the frick are they thinking?
>Where's the magic that made MS could have 20+ years of history in gaming.
Halo. Without the original Halo games Xbox would have been completely fricking dead.
having literally billions of dollars to throw at a project but in his case it's not taking off and hes losing billions every week
>What was zucks secret?
John carmac
after jonh left to work with AI we started seeing shit like that AI that draws
> Succeeds?
Facebook has had no gaming successes, you are delusional.
If you mean VR, the answer is that Oculus is a loss leader. Zucc is pouring Facebook money into selling headsets at cost price or maybe even at a loss in order to corner the emerging VR market. And it works, if you look at Steam stats, 2/3 headsets out there are from Oculus, with half of all sets being Quest 2.
Google could've succeeded if they had a similar approach, for example having a good selection of free games come with the subscription, like Game Pass but with streaming. It's not like they don't have the money for it.
Losing billions and barely getting any market share is succeeding now?
>barely getting any market share
You're delusional. Quest dominates the vr market right now. That might change soon but you can't argue that they haven't taken the vr market by storm.
HAHAHAHAHA
keyed
good
I genuinely don't even know what a stadia even is.
It's like steam but you don't even get the courtesy of being able to locally install your vidya to provide the illusion of ownership. That's it really.
Sounds dystopian. Good riddance.
It was. The wet dream of every big publisher since it makes piracy irrelevant. Goys pay to stream games and have no control over availability and no direct access to the games themselves. They can pull any game or modify any game at any time for any reason and you as consumer just pound sand since you never bought shit, just a subscription to stream the game through them. It's a complete scam.
Netflix for games
>Netflix still plans on launching its own gaming service after Stadia bombed
One of the reasons Stadia bombed was a moronic business model (having to buy games instead of a single subscription that geta you entire library), Netflix probably won't make the same mistake.
That still leaves the issues of no games and infrastructure though
They already launched the service and it's basically just apple arcade but on Android too.
No streaming, you download the games on mobile and play them regularly. I don't know how often it needs to connect online to verify your netflix sub though.
Apple Arcade is seriously great for comfy gaming, 99.9% of good indie games also come out on mobile and they will be grabbed by Apple.
Netflix's offering is total shit, they only have their original games that aren't good.
it's so much worse than that. at least with netflix, you can watch anything they have when you pay the subscription. stadia was paying the subscription so you could BUY THE GAME. and that purchase didn't transfer over to steam, or a console, or anything. they would literally hold your games hostage forever, requiring constant payments on them.
Its basically a website you connect to. Instead of streaming video like YouTube, it streams games. You ever see twitch plays pokemon? Imagine that but you're the only person playing.
>put the same guy that was in charge of the PS3 and the Xbox One launch in charge of your new gayming service
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
i can't believe he still had a career in the gaming industry after what happened with the xbox one
What? Who?
Phil Harrison
>Works for Sony
>Makes a shit ton of studios that don't do anything
>Goes to Atari and does nothing
>Goes to MS and evidently tried to push them to to having a home entertainment system then gets kicked out
>Was fricking VP for stadia
How does this guy have a job?
Boomer HR relics don't look at actual qualificationa they just see "old guy with a ton of experience in the field" and hire on the spot or one of their frends/family recommends someone and they hire them on the spot. It's why so many huge businesses make moronic decisions that even random people off the street laugh at; they keep hiring the same con men who know nothing over and over because their HR department is too lazy to vet people.
but muh teraflops!!
Stadia teraflopped right out of the market.
>less powerful than ps5, xsx
what were they thinking
>tech that everyone knew was bullshit and wouldn't work
>no games
>google owned soulless product
>pajeet shitstain smear looking logo
What were they thinking?
Jews just cant seem to achieve complete dominance of the vidya
Why did they even attempt to make their won console? They couldn’t partner with steam or PS/Xbox to release this service on their platforms?
>negative latency
what a shocker
get a woka
SJW GAMES/GAMES MADE BY SJW's THAT BOMBED
>BattleFieldV
>Mirrors Edge Catalyst
>Wolfenstein 2
>Wolfenstein young lesbians
>Anthem
>Mafia 3
>Watch Dogs 2
>Mass Effect Andromeda
>Lawbreakers
>Sunset@ "NOT THE FRICKING OVERDRIVE ONE"
>Revolution 60
>Depression quest
>Life is strange 2
>Battleborn
>Pillars of Eternity 2
>Dishonored 2
>Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider
>Tacoma
>Virginia
>Where The Water Tastes Like Wine
>River City Girls
>Tyranny
>Drawn to Death
>Agents of Mayhem
>Bless Online
>Hyper Universe
>Telltale Games- the whole company
>Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
>Dead Rising 4
>Bleeding Edge
>2064: Read Only Memories
>INVISIBLE
>Orphan
>DmC: DMC
>Thi4f
>MARVEL AVENGERS
>Sam & Max Remastered
>Medal of honor VR
>=GOOGLE STADIA=
>VTMB2 = BEFORE IT EVEN LAUNCHED
>Crash 4
>RETURNAL
>Destruction all stars
>Magic: Legends
>CRUCIBLE
>DoubleFine = the whole company
>deathflop
>joyless adventures of empathy woman
>RESIDENT EVIL 4 VR
>BATTLEFIELD 2042
>battletoads 2020
>KOTOR REMAKE = BEFORE IT EVEN LAUNCHED
>AI the troony files
>AI the troony files 41% initiative
>Grid Legends
>Back 4 blood
>phantasy star online 2
>watch doges region
>MANKIND DIVIDED
>VODEO GAMES = WHOLE COMPANY
>saints row HUZZAH
NON SJW GAMES THAT GOT POZZLED AND SUFFERED FROM IT
>Control
>GEARS 5
>Wildstar
>REmake 3
>FF7R PS4
>WoW
>no more heroes 3
>TABLETOP SIMULATOR
>tokyo mirage sessions
>guardians of the galaxy
SJW GAMES THAT SOLD WELL
>Borderlands 3
>Pathfinder
>CoD fanfic
Soon gta6
NON sjw games that used Woketards as free marketing and sold the sexy as DLC
>Mortal Kombat 11
>DoA6
>GG STRIVE
Before the end of 2023 this list will be too big for Ganker's post limit
>Literally called this as an absolute moronic idea the micro fricking second it was first shown at w/e the frick E3 or event it was
>flash forward now with common sense
WOAOOOAOOAOAHH WHO EVER SAW THIS HAPPENINGGGGGGGG
Regular Nostradamus.
Everybody on Ganker called this absolutely moronic
The only people who didn't were pretending
>an idea that has never worked before
>it doesn't work again
>OOOHHH IM SO SMART
Videogame streaming is going to have it's day in the hay sometime.
Reality is this was just another way for google to build proprietary information in their company that they'll have to utilize in the future as the backbone on how to handle similar projects. They do this a ton just to stay relevant and have their hands in the pie of any and everything technical related they can.
Just like Google Fiber being a big thing for them.
They wanted that experience on making big infrastructure changes in determining how easy it is to get the upper hand in business dealing with network providers.
They never intended for it to go nationwide because it was always just about having their hand in the pie too.
cope stadianny
Yet another one gets into the mass grave of google projects
Man, imagine having so much frick you money you can start and kill hundreds of projects like throwing shit at the wall for DECADES
Stadians stay winning.
Buy stadia
Buy games
No internet access
Cant play game
Servers shutdown
Lose console purpose and games
I wonder why this business model was doomed to fail.
>Buy $3,000 PC
>Buy $1,000 in Steam games
>Never actually play any games
>On death bed wondering why I wasted time being a homosexual on Ganker
Are you this guay?
except that playing your own games is up to you wasting time and not failed elements in the artificial chain servers/provider/infostructure etc etc, hike your iq
>No internet access
It's actually very easy to spot corporate shills because they pretend this isnt an issue.
I uses Stadia since June 2020. I got to play 30-40 games in all that time, and they are refunding me for EVERYTHING. I got to play all those games for free.
Who's the real loser here huh?
Anyone have the couch picture of Stadia-tan surrounded by futa girls?
stadia chads actually won since they get full refund including all purchases
>HOW ARE WE EVEN GONNA COPE
If you honestly thought Stadia was here to stay, I'd say you've been doing that on your own for years just fine honestly.
I still have my copy of AC Odyssey from the closed beta.
||The game sucks.||
Return to reddit
you may be an iToddler but you're alright
https://vocaroo.com/1gQpT2tO4DDK
not bad
Got a good chuckle out of me. Thanks for that.
>Frick you Google, you Black folk!!
>*Autistic screaming*
A company being called a Black person will never not be funny
why did i laugh at this shit, really nailed the autistic screeching
Why can't these arrogant frickers ever just admit their failures and mistakes?
Welcome to the double down generation of devs. Its like being Anti-Consumer towards your consumer is a bad thing or something?
Because now corporations like to boast that they are wonderful, virtuous fighters for equality and social justice and if they frick up it's a blemish on the political movement they are at the top of
I supposedly got 30 free days or something with my new TV but when I click the app I gotta make a account and only see the normal free trial..
Will I still be able to sign up I want to play Lost Judgement without buying it
I’m disappointed about this only because of the free trials. Those were pretty good.
PRESS S TO SPIT ON THE FRICKING GRAVE
PRESS S TO SNEED
PRESS S TO SUCK MY FRICKING DICK, GOOGLE
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Honestly at this point if Google takes the effort to announce something is "alive", you can be sure it's shutting down within the next year.
Is Google even relevant in tech scene?
Not anymore. Once it was the lead in AI tech (circa 2010) and lossy compression (circa 2010 too). Nowadays, it is mostly relevant for ads, political suppression of news and youtube videos, ads on youtube video, and that's it. Even their translation tech is failing behind. To the Russian search engine of all things, and also to Deepl.
Also there are some Linux kernel coders that are paid by Google to do some Google stuff, but they're mostly keeping it all in-house and not in the kernel tree, because their ideas aren't easily integrable and wholly about Android. Also their ideas are often bad. Not badly implemented, just not being natural. They're basically just coding whatever is useful in whatever way without care, sometimes ask Linus to integrate it back, gets a slap in the face because frick no, and goes on their merry way. Not bad people, but Google obviously doesn't really care about Linux dev.
Google Colab has some sway over machine learning and machine learning learning today still. It is used by students and teachers of the field to teach and develop AI. I would say Colab it is the entire relevance Google has in the tech industry nowadays.
They only waited so long to pull the plug so that the last generation of terminally online nerds wouldn't have started the biggest "I TOLD YOU SO!" campaign in tech history.
Why did Stadia fail while the Deck succeeded?
Because the Deck is actual hardware.
wasn't this already shut down like last year?
why is it shutting down again?
Stadia 2 is coming. Tick tock snoys, tendies, greentards
What about Gylt and stuff? Maybe upcoming PS5 releases?
I’m seeing a lot of angry devs who had ports to Stadia scheduled for the next couple of months getting pissed off that they found out about this through Twitter and not through direct e-mails. So Google are still finding ways to frick Stadia up now.
>company make endless failures without any repercussions because they're running the biggest surveillance project the world as ever seen and aren't allowed to fail
amazing. Must be amazing to be an executive at google and just coming up with complete bullshit all day and have endless money to throw at it
>Google returns the money
>Everybody who bought Stadia gets full refunds
>People literally got free controllers out of the deal they can use long after Stadia
>Games they bought they can just purchase elsewhere for cheaper on sale years later now after they launched
This looks like a clear W for google at pulling the plug. I don't remember the last time an experiment people invested millions into ended up failing and the guys behind it coming out as clean as Google here.
Reality is worldwide infrastructure just isn't ready for streaming games, and with capitalist corruption at the highest level in all of our media broadcasting utility companies Stadia missed the mark by 2 decades, at least. If not more, considering the speeds needed for it is what the Media companies promised us in the late 90s would happen by today. Before it just funneled into their yacht funds.
did anyone actually even 100% believe in the stadia? i always thought it's too early for this type of gaming by like 50 years
why do people let corporations lie to them so much
this happens all the time but no one has a problem with it
they don't know any better but to trust them in delivering
Stadia? more like Stadead
A day later and no one cares. I find that hilarious.
email that I received today since I used a free trial for 10 minutes a couple years ago
>this will be the future!
>stop denying it you luddite
>dies
whats wrong with techgays thinking every little thing will be the "future" being realistic to them causes so much ass hurt it's unreal. just like reddit when time cook said "Not Too Long From Now, You'll Wonder How You Led Your Life Without AR" they practically jizzed their pants and have been screaming at people who say it's silly.
mfw there were unironic Stadia shills and they even made a shitty wojack edit too
EGS & Game Pass are up next