Thread 724966321

2019... Stadia is announced...

>>724966321 (OP)
I still don't understand what they were thinking when they did this.

>>724966540
It was a desperate cry for help from someone in the marketing department.

>>724966540
They absolutely were trying to do some snark marketing where the 'Coming Soon' was supposed to be the current consoles after Stadia came out.

>>724966540
Came here to post this. But I guess streaming games was an idea that had a bit of traction at the time (TACHYONS!) and they figured it might just be the next thing especially as it could (at least theoretically) access a demographic that were more hesistant or incapable of bearing the cost of traditional consoles and PC.
And with their prominent infrastructure and resources in general they had the means to be early in and dominate. But of course here we are today and it didn't go that way, thankfully

>>724966321 (OP)
2019... Stadia has died...

>>724966540
https://killedbygoogle.com/
they weren't

>>724966540
they knew

>>724966321 (OP)
Which one was the biggest failure?

stadia was good. I liked it. it was an easy way to play elder scrolls online for pc in a consolized way without having to pay for psn or Xbox. I bought few games. But it was easy to use, just as easy as a Nintendo switch with a minimal interface and your games. GeForce now has you needing to plug your accounts to it but stadia was boot up and go. I think Luna should still be around but fuck amazon. At least google refunded me 200 bucks

They thought they could break the laws of physics by rearranging things. Turned out they couldn't. People keep trying though.

>>724967210
>stadia was good.

>>724967159
ouya. that was a trash heap. stadia had a good controller, Wii U had excellent games, and steam machines were just another whatever project for hardware manufacturers

>>724967303
oh yeah, I forgot some people live in the nebraskan panhandle. yeah it wasn’t good for those types. An Xbox 360 suited them better

>>724967159
Ouya by a significant margin. At least the Stadia has a good controller, the WiiU overall is a decent console and is stupid easy to jail break, and once you do, it becomes a multi-Nintendo system, and the Steam machine is still a computer in the end (and like stadia, has a good controller)

>>724967210
>stadia was good

>>724967210
same bro

>>724967159
I feel like I'm from an alternate reality where no one remembers the failure of a company who tried to do Stadia's thing first.

>>724966540
having a giggle

>>724967159
Wii U was the most meaningful failure by far
Steam Box and Stadia were side projects and Ouya was a kickstarter meme

Isnt geforce now with shield the same thing?

>>724968696
not really. apart from a few free games you can boot up right away, GeForce doesn’t sell you anything. it’s just a backend service for the pc games you have. it’s quality and latency is way ahead of stadia if you go with the ultimate subscription

>>724968696
geforce now is still usable, for one

>>724967159
I don't really know how people thought the Ouya could ever work. They literally promised a 100 bucks android console, of course the only games that you were going to get are the worst slop ever made.