Tech giant Google seems adamant to get a headstart and will skip E3 to unveil details about its cloud gaming platform Stadia, stating that "some news can't wait for E3". The company announced via a tweet that it will reveal more details about Stadia like pricing, games, and launch details this Thursday June 6th. By the same token, Google also announced its own version of Nintendo Direct called Stadia Connect which the company describes as "a series that gives you a look at Stadia news, events, new games, bonus features & more". The first Stadia Connect will be live streamed this Thursday June 6, 2019 at 9AM PDT/6PM CET with the new details about the platform and it can be viewed on YouTube right below:

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[weatMod]

please boycott this cancer at all costs
i don;t care what games they offer ,this thing needs to die along with Google

 

[UltraSUPRA]

please boycott this cancer at all costs
i don;t care what games they offer ,this thing needs to die along with Google

The death of Google might as well be the death of the internet.

 

[weatMod]

The death of Google might as well be the death of the internet.

Google IS the death of the internet

 

[UltraSUPRA]

Google IS the death of the internet

?!

 

[weatMod]

?!

censorship
altering algorithms and rigging it in the favor of a certain minority that owns and controls google facebook youtube wikipedia etc.

internet is becoming no different that MSM and cabal TV
it moves ever closer every single day , original content and thought are suppressed more and more

they are ruining the internet as we knew it

 

[UltraSUPRA]

censorship
altering algorithms and rigging it in the favor of a certain minority that owns and controls google facebook youtube wikipedia etc.

internet is becoming no different that MSM and cabal TV
it moves ever closer every single day , original content and thought are suppressed more and more

they are ruining the internet as we knew it

How do you know this?

 

[weatMod]

How do you know this?

i'e been using google since the year 2000

 

[UltraSUPRA]

i'e been using google since the year 2000

2008.

 

[weatMod]

2008.

yeah that is still long enought to notice the systematic decline

 

[Taleweaver]

they are ruining the internet as we knew it

Erm...I won't say that google doesn't have any issues, but you're SERIOUSLY exaggerating things.

Back up until around 2000 (not 2008...not sure how you could have that mixed up), there were a myriad of search engines. Altavista, yahoo and some others I forget about. Wanted to find anything? Good luck with the other web browsers. No matter what topic you picked, the first page always had some irrelevant web pages, took much longer to give results, and on average required two or three attempts to even find some information on anything. Google was just one of those search engines...it just so happened to be the fastest one that gave the most relevant results. Is that "the internet" you want to go back to?

Next example: internet standards. There is an official instance (ICANN) that provides standards to which web pages should adhere to. Microsoft being microsoft, however, implemented their own range of standards, providing a nightmare for web designers to create a page that looked normal on both "standard browsers" and "internet explorer". The latter had the largest market share, which usually put the other browsers (safari and firefox were still young back then) at a disadvantage. Granted: google came into the scene a bit late, but by providing a decent browser that adhered to all the standards AND gained a following, your average web page now follows an actual standard rather than "whatever the owner decided was the best browser". Is that the internet you want to go back to?

And the largest example: android. Early smartphones were either from apple or from a myriad of other operating systems, depending on what the manufacturer saw fit. Which meant that buying a new (non-apple) phone meant learning everything all over again. Oh, and manually putting all contacts on your sim card rather than just having one unified account. Which incidentally meant that there would be a market for actual phone apps (perhaps they existed, but I don't think anyone ever bought something they'd know would die with their phone). Is that the internet you want to go back to?


Take it from someone who actually used computers in that time: the internet of back then was garbage compared to what it is today. And I'm not even talking about the capacity of computers or modems/routers of that time.

 

[AlexMCS]

Erm...I won't say that google doesn't have any issues, but you're SERIOUSLY exaggerating things.

Back up until around 2000 (not 2008...not sure how you could have that mixed up), there were a myriad of search engines. Altavista, yahoo and some others I forget about. Wanted to find anything? Good luck with the other web browsers. No matter what topic you picked, the first page always had some irrelevant web pages, took much longer to give results, and on average required two or three attempts to even find some information on anything. Google was just one of those search engines...it just so happened to be the fastest one that gave the most relevant results. Is that "the internet" you want to go back to?

Actually... yes. Yahoo gave me relevant and accurate enough results before google became the "de facto" seearch engine. Altavista was lacking though. Netscape was a cool browser too.

Next example: internet standards. There is an official instance (ICANN) that provides standards to which web pages should adhere to. Microsoft being microsoft, however, implemented their own range of standards, providing a nightmare for web designers to create a page that looked normal on both "standard browsers" and "internet explorer". The latter had the largest market share, which usually put the other browsers (safari and firefox were still young back then) at a disadvantage. Granted: google came into the scene a bit late, but by providing a decent browser that adhered to all the standards AND gained a following, your average web page now follows an actual standard rather than "whatever the owner decided was the best browser". Is that the internet you want to go back to?

And the largest example: android. Early smartphones were either from apple or from a myriad of other operating systems, depending on what the manufacturer saw fit. Which meant that buying a new (non-apple) phone meant learning everything all over again. Oh, and manually putting all contacts on your sim card rather than just having one unified account. Which incidentally meant that there would be a market for actual phone apps (perhaps they existed, but I don't think anyone ever bought something they'd know would die with their phone). Is that the internet you want to go back to?

Google Chrome is the new IE. Firefox was (before killing NPAPI) superior in both debugging and customization. It's still better overrall as of now. It baffles me that people would still rather use the not as customizable or fast, memory hogger called Chrome to do anything that does not involve running legacy Adobe Flash apps.

Since the Internet deals with information, I'd REALLY rather not have a monopoly on anything related to it.

Also, Android is not the savior of mobile, it's just a Linux port to mobile phones. If not Google, some other company would have done it eventually. Every feature implemented by it could have been done by any other OS, literally. In fact, phone owners should have a choice of which OS they want to put in their device, but since there is a clear lack of options, we do not. Having used a ton of mobile phones before Android existed, it wasn't even hard at all to adapt to what they offered, unless you're technologically impaired, so that is a really bad excuse.

Apple having any success at all is only due to their UI. Their devices are severely lacking in quality for their price point.

Take it from someone who actually used computers in that time: the internet of back then was garbage compared to what it is today. And I'm not even talking about the capacity of computers or modems/routers of that time.

I don't know about you, but I've been using it since I was 7 years old, in 1992. And I've used BBS forums even before the Internet.
The Internet was not trash AT ALL if you knew how to use it. It just slowly evolved into the current status.

As a web developer, to me, the biggest changes were, in order, the introduction of CGI->FastCGI, AJAX, SSE, HTML5 and WebSockets.

 

[Ericthegreat]

I just can't wait for the 128 ms of input lag coupled with compression farts/artefacting in the video quality. What's the point of cloud gaming other than to deter piracy? We don't even have a very consistent or reliable infrastructure in the US to support such an ambitious project. Those who live in rural areas are shit outta luck, WISPs and other wireless forms of internet in rural regions are slow and pure garbage.

Never used a wisp, but I was told newer ones add almost no latency.

 

[Nerdtendo]

Definitely interesting stuff. Do I think it will be good? Not sure. Do I think it has potential? Absolutely. There are concerning things obviously, with streaming games you only have them until the servers are shut down. However, as long as there aren't any exclusives, this could be a good second option for someone who doesn't have $400 for a PS4.

I think this can exist alongside physical media. I even think it can thrive, as long as Google and other tech industries are smart about how they use these kinds of services. What I'm trying to say is as long as this isn't the future of games, we'll be good.

Of course I'd love to see performance on this thing. Especially input lag. That will be the real make or break feature.

As a final note, I don't think this is gonna be as much of a "play anywhere" thing as google is trying to make it. I think it's something you play connected to an ethernet with whatever old computer you have lying around

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Not going to go through 5 pages to see if it's already been discussed, but I think a lot of people are being misled by the announcement of what games will be available at launch for "free". Per the official Stadia page, the only "free" title at launch will be the Destiny 2 collection. The majority of games will also need to be purchased, in ADDITION to their monthly subscription fee. Imo they're intentionally deceptive in their advertising. Making it look like "Pay $10 a month and get ALL of these games for free!!!"

 

[pedro702]

Not going to go through 5 pages to see if it's already been discussed, but I think a lot of people are being misled by the announcement of what games will be available at launch for "free". Per the official Stadia page, the only "free" title at launch will be the Destiny 2 collection. The majority of games will also need to be purchased, in ADDITION to their monthly subscription fee. Imo they're intentionally deceptive in their advertising. Making it look like "Pay $10 a month and get ALL of these games for free!!!"

yeah that is what i got too, the only free game will be destiny, then after that you will pay for games plus for service...

Srs why are people paying 10$ a month for? imagine if you paid netflix subscription and then you would need to pay extra to see any shows after that lol.

 

[sarkwalvein]

Does Stadia pricing/fake subscription scam not suck for any one person on planet Earth?
I mean, is there even one person that think it is OK?

 

[DANTENDO]

Does Stadia pricing/fake subscription scam not suck for any one person on planet Earth?
I mean, is there even one person that think it is OK?

Sounds great to me 4k 60fps and 9 quid a month not an issue

 

[sarkwalvein]

The death of Google might as well be the death of the internet.

Pfffffffffff^999

The Internet was great before Google, the Internet will be great after Google.
Long life infoseek! /s

PS: actually, any of the big Asian IT conglomerates could replace google any day, and if one day google disappeared sure some other western IT conglomerate would take its place in no time.

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Sounds great to me 4k 60fps and 9 quid a month not an issue

But you have to pay 9 quid per month to use it.
Additionally you have to buy the hardware and the games.

 

[DANTENDO]

But you have to pay 9 quid per month to use it.
Additionally you have to buy the hardware and the games

Gamers who can't afford to spend a grand on a pc this could be a great option depending on what games wil be available in the longterm

 

[pedro702]

Sounds great to me 4k 60fps and 9 quid a month not an issue

you pay 10$ to play older games, to play newer games you will pay the 10 + whatever their price is lol, they said technicaly only destiny 2 is free you will pay extra to play any newer releases lol.