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ALL 5 STADIA CONTROLLERS (all working as well!)

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Yes. Exclusive to the launch team. (I'm not in the launch team) just a consumer fanboy.

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The story to how I got it has nothing to do with knowing someone personally on the team.

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It's the ultimate flex. As far as I know the only other working one is from Stadia UI Lead, John McDole.

Jack-Off Lantern posted:

Ohhh, that would be the best thing if Google paid a click farm to shill their product.

Clark Nova posted:

Actually, I sold my playstation to pay Filipinos to shill for Stadia, because I love it so much

Just a appreciation post for what Google created! posted:

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I was so down on it initially, tried ps now, xcloud, streaming was bad all around, when the free version of stadia dropped I was like "what the hell, why not?" Since then I've bought about 6 games on incredible deals and got the premiere edition for $80 still in the wrap off of Facebook and I've loved every moment. So much better then every other streaming service I've tried. I'm hooked!

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LMAO I thought the same thing after I tried it, I wish I would've bought the founders edition, but ultimately I'm super impressed, I've had zero issue, the premiere edition is flawless and playing on my laptop, 4k TV, and pixel 4 XL has been amazing, I guess I shouldn't listen to the media's opinion on everything because this is one thing they have WAY wrong!

Sandweed posted:

Imagine being the fanboy of a mass produced consumer product from a soulless multinational megacorp.

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Might get a glass case for the founders controller

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From a different, unrelated thread:

Reminder as we get into the summer announcement season: Don't take the lack of a Stadia logo on a game trailer as a dire omen or portent posted:

We're getting into that time when we the E3 et al. conferences would be starting up and trailers-a-plenty are going to start dropping, so it's very important to keep this in mind: Don't take the lack of announcement of a game coming to Stadia as any indication of a developer's level of support for the platform or even the reality of whether or not Stadia will get that game.

Stadia is a brand new platform. If you ask a director at a studio how long it takes to create a game with X / Y / Z characteristics on PlayStation or Xbox or PC or Switch, they're going to give you a range of months that will probably be accurate to within 2-3 months of development time. Because they've done it dozens or hundreds of times before.

With Stadia, most studios have only released one or two games on the platform. Ubisoft and Square are the diehards that are really getting the workflows down and are porting more and more games, plus putting future games on the platform, but other studios are still learning the ropes and building processes.

In one or two years once studios have a wealth of institutional knowledge of development on Stadia, you'll start to see more simultaneous release dates because they know they can hit that target based on their pipeline.

Stadia is not dead, it's not declining, no one's losing faith in it. Don't contribute to that mindset. Meanwhile, they're adding new and library games all the time so keep it positive!

VideoGames posted:

Still cannot believe I have been tuned to stadia to learn that some dude in optimal conditions played a game slightly better than an xbox...

Sandweed posted:

Imagine being the fanboy of a mass produced consumer product from a soulless multinational megacorp.

emgeejay posted:

I'm not sure Stadia controllers count as "mass produced"

gschmidl posted:

Yeah, strike the m.

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If Google upgrades the hardware in the future, what happens with exisiting games?

I wonder if Google contacts all game developers so they can adjust resolution and details based on the new hardware. It wouldn't be that easy to convince all developers to do so in every game, but it would be a shame if the ressources wouldn't be utilized too.
Or does Google have access to detail settings and resolution settings?
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I hope we will see graphical updates with new hardware even on older games which aren't currently running in max details or 4k.

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Google could do this, I am sure there is a hidden menu they can access that offers the same as PC settings

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That would be great for not only devs but all customers!

Devs don't need to worry about changing old titles every time the hardware gets upgraded since Google could do this by itself without communicating, waiting for responses or declines from the developers and so on. And all Players would have a better looking game from one day to another.

I hope you are right then.

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Dude I'm pretty sure google knows, either they are going to up the settings or devs will.

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It's a mainly a frame rate problem and a graphics settings not a whole restructuring of the engine

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Am so sick of listening to people talking about latency as if it's a loving issues I mean does anyone actually know how latency works or do they just mention it and say ohh stadia has latency it's bad!! Latency on stadia is higher but its not much higher and for a casual gamer or me myself I class myself as a hard-core gamer I play lots of first person shooter games and even the latency didn't feel that much higher so people need to stop going on about latency because it's not an issue unless your playing e sports where every ms counts and the lower the better for games like CSGO but stadia isn't aimed for them people.

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I do remember the Switch getting an awful lot of hate when that launched too. People seem to have forgotten that by now...

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Stadia needs a mascot!

A bonkers idea that may actually be of massive help to appeal. (And no not Stadia-chan! 😆)

If I could draw I would make something a bit like the wonderful dog who found Stadia 😁

What do you all think? Too childish? Could be fun? A sensational stroke of genius? (Oh stop)

Chalks posted:

Console mascots are usually from a popular first party exclusive game, like Mario or Sonic.

Looking forward to seeing the artwork for stadia's gaping void of disappointment mascot

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Chalks posted:

gaping void of disappointment mascot

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Stadia is literally magic.






Google just twist some knobs and boom! Better performance! Easy!

hostile apostle posted:

With future hardware

Sandweed posted:

Imagine being the fanboy of a mass produced consumer product from a soulless multinational megacorp.

gschmidl posted:

Yeah, strike the m.

hostile apostle posted:

Its not far from the truth - its basically a PC port. With future hardware they can up the native resolution, or texture details with pretty minimal work.

hostile apostle posted:

Its not far from the truth - its basically a PC port. With future hardware they can up the native resolution, or texture details with pretty minimal work.

American McGay posted:

It's cool that Stadia has basically completely wasted their launch "window" and their hardware is going to be out of date in about 6 months and some schlub is going to have to go to his boss with an expense report of 250 million dollars to upgrade the servers and show him a sheet that lists 400 thousand current subscribers.

Cemetry Gator posted:

Except they're going to have to test each of the games again and make sure the performance is up to snuff. Since you know, I don't think the developers of the games would be happy if Stadia tweaked some settings and now the game has horrible performance.

That is going to be a lot of work for each game. Who's going to pay for that?

hostile apostle posted:

Its not far from the truth - its basically a PC port. With future hardware they can up the native resolution, or texture details with pretty minimal work.

hostile apostle posted:

Its not far from the truth - its basically a PC port. With future hardware they can up the native resolution, or texture details with pretty minimal work.

American McGay posted:

400 thousand current subscribers.

Dr. Fishopolis posted:

oh of course, just like how pc games get free texture packs and engine updates every time a new generation of GPUs comes out.

that's definitely how this industry works, yep.

njsykora posted:

Bit optimistic subscriber count there. Though I'd assume Google would do the same thing WWE did with the WWE Network for a while and heavily promote a free trial before their financial reports so they could report all the people on free trials as subscribers. Even then though...

hostile apostle posted:

Its not far from the truth - its basically a PC port. With future hardware they can up the native resolution, or texture details with pretty minimal work.

hostile apostle posted:

Its not far from the truth - its basically a PC port. With future hardware they can up the native resolution, or texture details with pretty minimal work.