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points by verdverm 2 days ago | 0 comments

Stadia is dead, the reason is playing games over the internet sucks, input lag and serious graphics degradation - this is why I cancelled

Ai generated games suck even more, no skill; no taste, there is no TLC put into them

Then there is the economics of it, cost prohibitive to (re)generate a scene and ship that over internet pipes

[–] ZiiS 2 days ago

Stadia is dead because if you have a data-center of GPUs you are using them for AI. It has nothing to do with input lag and graphics degradation.

[–] ActionHank 2 days ago

Oh no my guy, you are misremembering, stadia died a quiet death long before AI.

The latency was no good even on fast internet for even slow games. It is and was pointless.

[–] Matl 2 days ago

Stadia was pretty good, be it OnLive was similar quality in like 2010. It even had the best version of Cyberpunk 2077 when that launched. But the model was free version of the service for a limited resolution AND you have to buy games there OR a subscription based option and you still have to buy games there.

That made no sense and wasn't a viable business model.

[–] verdverm 2 days ago

stadia died way beforehand, history is useful

https://www.denofgeek.com/games/why-google-stadia-failed-shu...

[–] ZiiS 2 days ago

I am sure the are other typical Google fumbles that would have meant they were not the victor; but I am sure an equivalent service would be mainstream today if AI had not dramatically changed the economics. [also Google bought DeepMind in 2014; 'way beforehand' is and odd way to look at it]

[–] verdverm 2 days ago

I disagree, dropping below 60 FPS will be noticed and turn players away, you are not getting that with good input handling even today, it has nothing to do with GPUs and everything to do with networking

> beforehand...

is about the craze, the ChatGPT moment and beyond, when GPUs demand went exponential, not when various types of Ai algorithms were available

[–] ZiiS 2 days ago

It is about when Google realized GPUs were about to go exponential; they may have missed some opportunities but they were well ahead of the curve.

[–] verdverm 2 days ago

sure... despite all the other people who used it and are saying otherwise, and the fact that google totally fumbled in the Ai race as well as built custom silicon for Ai...

... history is helpful ... google didn't - and still doesn't - understand gamers, same for all the other Ai hucksters, gamers are among the most anti-Ai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Fv1uKTd-w

[–] jfckenfishf 2 days ago

I used stadia and it was a great experience, latency wasn't an issue at all.

[–] andoando 2 days ago

Geforce Now is still a thing