Google announced Stadia, a new cloud-based gaming platform, at its GDC 2019 keynote Tuesday morning. It’s a major move for Google into the video game business, which is increasingly building toward streaming as a solution.
Stadia is not a dedicated console or set-top box. The platform will be accessible over the internet on a variety of platforms: browsers, computers, TVs, and mobile devices. In an onstage demonstration of Stadia, Google showed someone playing a game on a Chromebook, then playing it on a phone, then immediately playing it on PC, picking up where the game left off in real time.
Stadia can stream games in 60 fps, with HDR and 4K resolution, said Google’s Majd Bakar. In the future, Bakar said, Stadia will achieve resolutions up to 8K and frame rates up to 120 fps. Google showed AAA games like Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and id Software Doom Eternal running on Stadia.
Google will have a hardware component, however: the Stadia Controller. It’s a traditional looking gamepad, with dual analog joysticks, four face buttons, and shoulder buttons. The controller will connect to the cloud via wi-fi, and includes a “share” button to connect to YouTube and a Google Assistant button.
Stadia will be powered by Google’s worldwide data centers, which live in more than 200 countries and territories, streamed over hundreds of millions of miles of fiber optic cable, Pichai said. Executive Phil Harrison, previously at PlayStation and Xbox, now at Google, said the company will give developers access to its data centers to bring games to Stadia.
E interesanta si nu prea. Interesanta pentru ca daca vrei sa te joci ceva pe metrou, why make it a shitty Android game? Si nu prea pentru ca numarul jocurilor care sa se preteze la phone/tablet gaming e foarte mic. Sau poate in business use case-ul lor oamenii merg cu controllerul dupa ei. Daca ar fi asa, why wouldn't you just play on your switch/vista/3ds etc.
Ar fi fost mai interesant daca era o platforma care sa faca concurenta Twitchului. Asa, e meh rau de tot.
sebas wrote: ↑20 Mar 2019, 12:23
Ar fi fost mai interesant daca era o platforma care sa faca concurenta Twitchului. Asa, e meh rau de tot.
Pai Youtube e deja alternativa la twitch. Sunt multi streameri de success care folosesc Youtube streaming ca platforma exclusiva. Merge bine, si are feature-uri in plus fata de twitch. Gen rewind la Live stream.
Ontopic, sunt sceptic cu privire la produsul asta. Mai multe sanse as da Microsoft-ului, cu Project xCloud, care s-ar complementa cu solutiile dedicate (Xbox, PC), nu ar incerca sa le inclocuiasca total. In plus, cu siguranta ei vor integra in pachet si Xbox Gamepass, oferind optiunea de a juca titlurile din catalog atat local, la calitatea maxima, cat si remote, la pret minim.
The most popular demo, judging by the crowds gathered around the screen, was an opportunity to play Assassin's Creed Odyssey on a standard Chromebook via Stadia streaming. The game—running at apparently native resolution and 60 frames per second on a 1080p display—was for all intents and purposes indistinguishable from a local copy running on a high-end gaming rig. Playing and watching the games for a few minutes, I didn't notice any of the input delay, dropped frames, or stuttering that sometimes characterizes the current state of game streaming.
Mort de mult, ai zis-o la perfecție. Se vede că ești om educat, care înțelege lucrurile astea. Poate faci un review la Stadia, ne-ar prinde bine mai multe informații.
Pe un ton mai serios, zmeul a reușit în 2 propoziții să piardă firul discuției și să aibă impresia că argumentam pentru Stadia. Cred că e un record absolut. Dar cu fiecare post devine mai deprimant, oare așa o să fiu și eu la bătrâneți? Noroc că până atunci vom avea toți arme și voi putea să-mi scurtez drumul în viață înainte să mă fac de râs pe forumuri (ne0lith, abține-te).
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