|
limaCAT posted:Meanwhile a tech journo thinks back at 10 years of the other cloud first OS by the big Yeah I love my Chromebook to pieces but I'd never use it for anything but surfing the web in bed, watching youtube while I cook, or taking notes occasionally.
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 16:28
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 04:27 |
|
|
shadow puppet of a posted:New emerging narrative within the Stadia fanfic community: Lots of Players Playing The Stadia Versions.. Stadia players couldn't find anyone to play with, so they organised into a large combined discord so they could L4G there instead. It has 600 members.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 18:39
|
|
|
neonchameleon posted:I think it's a matter of how US-centric this whole fiasco is. In the US the XBox One is running neck and neck with the PS4 (24.5 million vs 28 million by VGChartz) - and I suspect with the Microsoft Campus in Sillicon Valley and the XBox almost specialising in online multiplayer shooters rather than single player story driven (the way the best PS4 exclusives do) then the Chrome people probably actually think the XBox is the console with mindshare - because round them it is. vgchartz is literally made up numbers
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 18:45
|
|
|
davidspackage posted:Wife: why is the internet bill so high this month?
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 18:57
|
|
|
quote:My alarm on my Google Home Mini went off, and so I say "hey Google Stop." It then turned off the application running on my Chromecast Ultra, which happens to be a Stadia game. lol
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 19:07
|
|
|
quote:I really thought that indie devs would be clamouring to get their games on here. Is it going to happen? It's funny cause that IS what happened for the Switch, indie devs couldn't get their poo poo ported fast enough after release.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 19:10
|
|
|
quote:They'll just find a kernel dev at Google to fix it. They'd love to take on such problems. bing bong problem solved
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 19:11
|
|
|
Can't wait for the Google Pacemaker!
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 19:29
|
|
|
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=78399 Stadians try to drum up support for factorio on stadia by making accounts to post on their forums. They meet people hearing about Stadia for the first time, and immediately get asked why on earth they want to buy the game again when they could just use Steam-streaming. quote:My question is, why force players off steam and onto your own platform? Because reminder: You probably need to re-buy the game on stadia. No one likes the epic games launcher, why would googles be any different? quote:And remember any semi decent pc or laptop can run factorio. quote:I do also think your example is more of a hardware matter, I‘ve tested WiFi streaming on a rather large display with a RTX 2070 and i7-9750. The quality wasn’t extraordinary, but quite good enough.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 20:09
|
|
|
Newsflash: Voice interfaces continue to suck.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 21:11
|
|
|
Khablam posted:https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=78399 Man i have been waiting for something like this since it released and honestly it makes me as happy as i expected it would.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 22:35
|
|
|
It doesn't even have Dragon's Lair, the game ported to everything ever.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 22:42
|
|
|
I legit have a DVD copy of Dragon's Lair somewhere around here. As in you put it in a DVD player and use the remote.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 22:44
|
|
|
Zushio posted:I legit have a DVD copy of Dragon's Lair somewhere around here. As in you put it in a DVD player and use the remote.  , mostly because it works with DAPHNE.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 23:07
|
|
|
Stux posted:vgchartz is literally made up numbers Has anyone found a place to see the self-reported number of shipped Xboxes on Microsoft's website? I've found Nintendo's numbers and Sony's numbers but nothing from MS so far. Edit: Nevermind, I just found some article saying that Microsoft were officially no longer reporting hardware sales. I guess their ego or stock price isn't able to deal with reporting mediocre sales news every year or so. Bofast fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jan 4, 2020 |
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2020 23:45
|
|
|
Bofast posted:Has anyone found a place to see the self-reported number of shipped Xboxes on Microsoft's website? I've found Nintendo's numbers and Sony's numbers but nothing from MS so far. No - but there have been occasional leaks. Just under 30 million by the end of 2017 according to EA
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 00:55
|
|
|
Xbox one was last and forever best quoted as “almost approaching 10 million shipped”. You really have to admire the double-uncertain opening and then their used of shipped, not sold in or sold through.
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 00:58
|
|
|
Khablam posted:Stadians try to drum up support for factorio on stadia by making accounts to post on their forums. lol Factorio would look terrible over a stadia stream (or TBF any other stream). Low-contrast art, constant motion that doesn't map to any sort of global motion compensation from all the conveyor belts, and tiny text that's written in pixel font? Hello and welcome to macroblock city!
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 01:15
|
|
|
Klyith posted:lol Factorio would look terrible over a stadia stream (or TBF any other stream). Even Doom has that fireblu texture that completely wrecks compression
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 01:30
|
|
|
Fallom posted:Even Doom has that fireblu texture that completely wrecks compression  Best texture.
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 04:28
|
|
|
That Factoria thread died real quick too. It's Ouya 2.00 all over again.
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 10:21
|
|
|
The Stadiarius of controllers.
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 10:21
|
|
|
gschmidl posted:The Stadiarius of controllers. Now I want to see someone with an OUYA controller hook it up to their PC to play Stadia games  .
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 11:29
|
|
|
quote:Posted by u/atmdoormat 47 minutes ago This is the concentrated orange juice of stadia posts. touches every base in just a single sentence. Its perfect. Its got problems. I love the limited library, I'm a dad with no time to game. Lol. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 12:42
|
|
|
shadow puppet of a posted:This is the concentrated orange juice of stadia posts. touches every base in just a single sentence. Its perfect. Its got problems. I love the limited library, I'm a dad with no time to game. Lol. Had I been in a situation like that, I would at least have tried switching to another game just to see if it was the stream having issues or if the game itself was actually stuttering on the server due to some memory leak or such.
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 12:51
|
|
|
I can relate to all fake/real dad posts about gaming from 11 pm to 3 am because thats what I do when I want some time alone but I'm playing MHW Iceborne on a PS4 in our living room, with headphones like a normal person.
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 13:35
|
|
|
Guys my number one top buying concern is lag, as a gamer its simply intolerable to have any lag. So... what TV do I get to go with my Stadia?quote:Posted by u/French87 2 hours ago
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 22:56
|
|
|
 scared I’ll get stuck lag or forced to use the ugly “game mode"
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 23:38
|
|
|
Zat posted:
That's one way to get silky smooth motion.
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 23:50
|
|
|
isnt game mode just showing you the actual image youre meant to be looking at without weird effects added on top to make it look worse pointlessly
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 23:51
|
|
|
Stux posted:isnt game mode just showing you the actual image youre meant to be looking at without weird effects added on top to make it look worse pointlessly Yes.
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 23:56
|
|
|
Stux posted:isnt game mode just showing you the actual image youre meant to be looking at without weird effects added on top to make it look worse pointlessly Yes
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 23:57
|
|
|
Stadia is cheap guys!* *You just need an expensive gaming router, 4k tv/Pixel, the most expensive internet plan + overage fees, custom made heatsink for your Chromecast, move to a city with legit internet, divorce your wife and give her the kids so no one is streaming in your house, rebuy games that are only ok, and be prepared to only play at home or at work in order to get the full Stadia experience!
|
|
#
?
Jan 5, 2020 23:57
|
|
|
Stux posted:isnt game mode just showing you the actual image youre meant to be looking at without weird effects added on top to make it look worse pointlessly The point of doing that isn't the image quality; all of the effects add latency that isn't really noticeable when you're watching TV but definitely is noticeable when you're playing video games.
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2020 00:30
|
|
|
...! posted:The point of doing that isn't the image quality; all of the effects add latency that isn't really noticeable when you're watching TV but definitely is noticeable when you're playing video games. yeah and all the effects look like trash garbage made to give the tv an attract mode in a format of store that no longer exists for most people
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2020 00:34
|
|
|
...! posted:The point of doing that isn't the image quality; all of the effects add latency that isn't really noticeable when you're watching TV but definitely is noticeable when you're playing video games. But usually, the best way to turn off all that crap is to go to Game Mode, so it really is killing two birds with one stone.
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2020 02:26
|
|
|
quote:The casual gamer with good internet isn't necessarily the future it's just a big untapped market. Lowering the barrier for entry is a big deal. It obviously doesn't tickle people who have bleeding edge setups. Destiny runs as well or smoother than the consoles.
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2020 02:45
|
|
|
But I've never heard anyone who 'haven't played games before' praising stadia. The only people I hear from are gamer dads or ones who used to have a gaming pc or a ps4 or nes or snes or switch. Mainly those who used to game before but are finding it harder to make time for gaming. Stadia hasn't tapped into this 'untapped market' at all. I suppose they may once the 'free option' pops up but honestly anyone who doesn't have a console or gaming pc are playing on their phones and they're not gonna buy $30+ dollar games. Ineffiable fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jan 6, 2020 |
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2020 02:55
|
|
|
I still do not understand how stadia frees up any meaningful time since the absolute bulk of the gaming time experience is not the initial installation, console boot up.
|
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2020 02:56
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 04:27 |
|
|
Barudak posted:I still do not understand how stadia frees up any meaningful time since the absolute bulk of the gaming time experience is not the initial installation, console boot up. If anything stadia is actually worse because you have to boot the game up every time you switch on your stadia device. On consoles these days unless you're switching games you can keep your game session suspended which means you can literally be in the middle of a story mission. When you resume on console it can literally take less than a minute to actually be playing again. With stadia, if you have to quit you're counting on the autosave hopefully saving plenty of progress for you, or make a manual save as soon as you can. And have fun sitting through all the title and game engine opening credits before being able to load your save. I get it, there's some convenience in being able to access your library from a Chromecast, chrome browser or phone but there are plenty of things you're giving up just to have that. Patching and installing games are so immaterial in the long run. I buy all my games digitally and I usually just hit the order button while I'm at work and it's downloaded for me when I get home.(not to mention Pre-orders download in advance) Thanks to auto updates most everything is updated before I play it. Even when I want to play something that just got a patch the very same day, I just play something else while it downloads in the background. I stalling from disc can be annoying but I guess you can just do it before you go to bed or leave for work. Ineffiable fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Jan 6, 2020 |
|
#
?
Jan 6, 2020 03:02
|
|