The vision for future of gaming called Stadia was revealed at the at GDC 2019 in San Francisco on March 19. If you have some time (1 hour) you can watch the full GDC announcement panel on YouTube:
But if u dont let me summarize Stadia for you: Stadia will be an all in one platform for gaming, it will supports games development process, its advertising, distribution and hosting. Through its game streaming it will eliminate hardware barriers for all people around the globe.
Closest comparison would be Netflix but for games, with library of games to choose from and without any installation play wherever we are. While the price for Stadia service is yet to be announced and so is it’s launch date, as leader of Stadia project Phil Harrison said project is set to launch in 2019 and we might hear more as soon as in June.
How do you feel about Stadia?
How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the hardware?
Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
If yes what price would you feel comfortable paying for it? Sources: Google GDC Keynote Live stream (and VOD after)
But if u dont let me summarize Stadia for you: Stadia will be an all in one platform for gaming, it will supports games development process, its advertising, distribution and hosting. Through its game streaming it will eliminate hardware barriers for all people around the globe.
But how it’s supposed to work?
The heart of Stadia will be built on Google’s data center network in 200 countries. Which will allow users to rent out their computing power to play games instead of buying hardware on their own, and stream games to any supported device they own. To achieve such graphical computation power Google partnered up with AMD to build GPU dedicated for such tremendous task.Closest comparison would be Netflix but for games, with library of games to choose from and without any installation play wherever we are. While the price for Stadia service is yet to be announced and so is it’s launch date, as leader of Stadia project Phil Harrison said project is set to launch in 2019 and we might hear more as soon as in June.
How do you feel about Stadia?
How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the hardware?
Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
If yes what price would you feel comfortable paying for it? Sources: Google GDC Keynote Live stream (and VOD after)
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And build massive barriers of "Shitty Internet gate" that are even worse. Like, come on, just imagine, what amount of data and flow capacity you will require to play for at least an hour in 4k 60fps?
Never mention that apart from games, many developers and programmers, me included, require strong hardware for development. I do not see this changing any time soon
Nice joke, though :)
Very interesting innovation,as I understand this service will only be released in 2019.
How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the hardware?
Where was this server when I was a gamer 5 years ago) would Not need to spend thousands of dollars on powerful computers that need to be updated once 1-2 years.
Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
Don't know if I'll use all the time, but sure gonna try.A very similar feature was on Steam.
If yes what price would you feel comfortable paying for it?
I find it difficult to evaluate such a cloud gaming service, because it has never been done before.
What if Google Fiber got more popular ?
Would that change how you look at the service if it came with complementary "Fiber" while releasing ?
How about Netflix like pricing ? Would that be fine?
Definitely it will be awesome, but i'm not a fan of gaming.
2.How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the hardware?
Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
I don't play games, it is a waste of time, your time is running out, your parents are getting older everyday and you are still playing games? Come on! You might be scrolling facebook or instagram feed and reading about guys, who are driving ferrari with top girls or somebody earned 1,000,000$ by creating a startup. Do not waste your time, when you are able to be on the top of the world with young potential, stop playing games. Stop buying dumb shit games to make people you dont even like think you're doing well.
I don't know what I feel right now. It might be really interesting and can revolutionize gaming but we don't know if it really will be working really well and be that of a hit.
2. How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the hardware?
I play video games almost every day but not that much as I used to. Right now its like one hour per day. When it comes to hardware its hard to keep up with it for new games so yea I think I would do it more just because every player would be in the same level. To be honest a good hardware gives you really big advantage in competetive games.
Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
For sure I will check it out.
If yes what price would you feel comfortable paying for it?
We will see what will be the price on hardware so I think its irrelavant question right now. Many things can change in the future.
Would Netflix like monthly fee be okay for such service ?
I have no opinion, but it is certainly something interesting. Maybe I'll read more about it someday.
I play games very often. Sometimes even a few hours without a break. I guess the equipment is not a determinant of the time that I devote to playing on the computer
Whether I will use XYZ depends on the price. It is possible that I will use it.
Certainly it depends on the price of the computer equipment. I have no idea what the price would be for me.
2. Currently I don’t play games at all, because I don’t have time for this while working and studying at the same time, but I will go back to gaming after graduating for sure. I am a PC enthusiast and hardware is not a problem for me. An expensive PC for the purpose of gaming is something I am happy to spend money for, as soon as I earn enough to do this.
3. Probably not, because as I said earlier I prefer to play on my own machine with the components of my choice.
4. Even though I wouldn’t personally use it, I think that no price would make this technology more reasonable than gaming consoles which are not expensive and can run almost any game on the market.
Would similar cost of Stadia made you more appealed to it ?
2. I don't play games. Sometimes chess on the phone but I prefer to shave play with the other person realistically.
3. Probably not.
4. Hard to say. I think that even price will be very low, I will not buy it.
Exo! Thank you for this article, because honestly I have not heard about this project yet! This is a very interesting idea and I will keep my fingers crossed for success. I'm not a fan of games, but I realize what opportunities Stadia will introduce.
2. How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the hardware?
As I mentioned earlier, I'm not a fan of games. I doubt that this will change dramatically after the project is launched.
3. Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
Yes, I would definitely try to have some insight in this market segment. I would also like to see what the platform will offer from the development side.
4. If yes what price would you feel comfortable paying for it?
It's hard to say, we'll see what price will be offered. For sure it will have to be competitive in relation to the price of hardware.
I'm not a big gammer so I do not look forward to it, but when it will come out some day and it will be a hit, then I will probably start using it ;)
>How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the >hardware?
It depends, but not quite often. I usually play one or two times a week for about one and half hour, but sometimes I play less like one hour per two-three weeks. Also, there are times that I play non stop for two days or something, but that's really rare.
>Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
Try, that's sure. But future only knows what will happen.
>If yes what price would you feel comfortable paying for it?
20-30$
It sounds amazing actually. I am constantly struggling with hardware limitations, would like to play newest titles but not motivated enough to invest money in new hardware. Now it seems I won't have to - great news!
How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the hardware?
I think yes. However, I am a little afraid that it would consume too much of my time. Until now hardware limitations were good reason for me not to dive into hours of gaming, but with Stadia around, I don't know.
Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
Depends on its price of course.
If yes what price would you feel comfortable paying for it?
50 zl/month.
If Stadia accomplishes what its meant to do and streamlines the dev process it could be really nice for Developers around the world, we could even see Steam like one streaming platform to rule them all. (And i think Google wishes the same)
Hmm so you value it more than Netflix like platform is priced nowadays.
Im curious, that would be with all games on the platform being included right? As Origin access is right now?
2. When I went to college, I do not play games too much. But before, I was a gamer. Now I don't have time to play video games.
3. As I said above, I don;t play games now. But if I'd be a gamer, I'd pay for use Stadia I don't know, 30-50 PLN per month?
2. I don’t play too often but there are always some games that I wat to play but I don’t have suitable hardware, so yes there is big chance that I would play more.
3. It’s hard to say all depends how much I must pay but I also don’t know how much I want to pay. It’s all depends what kind of game will be available.
Yeah and I'm not going to buy nor pay, or use this evil thing.
As a Mac user I think it's cool possibility to start playing games again(just joking, I don't have a time for this). But I think that it's interesting if google won't fail with this, because with current state of technology, this project will cost for google more than cost of subscription. Maybe they will be patiently waiting while PC market will stagnate and than this strategy would pay up. Will see.
How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the hardware?
Not at all. I think I will play sometimes.
Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
Plan to test it, also I think that for me the price tag is not worth the benefit, because I don't play a lot.
If yes what price would you feel comfortable paying for it?
I think $10/month is fair price for me :)
For now I rarely play games, but after getting a graduating and finding a job I think I would come back to playing. I’m interested in computer hardware ever since I get my first PC so it would be really hard to just forget about it.
I don’t think so. As I mentioned earlier I rather have my own PC with hardware that I can choose.
2. I do not play. Games bore me I think that the window is better graphics. : P
3. Maybe out of curiosity how well it works.
4. As low as possible. :)
It’s look pretty nice, i do not need to spent a lot of money for PC ;)But will see how much it will be cost
2.How often do you play games? Would you do it more if u could forget about the hardware?
I played in it when i am in bad mood, or i wanna to speak with my friend from another countries and spent a good time, 2 in 1 :)
Or release a good game with 7+ on metacritic:)
3.Will you use Stadia when it becomes available?
i will try it, maybe i will if it will be good.
4.If yes what price would you feel comfortable paying for it?
20$ per month.
2. Personally I have never been big into gaming, I enjoy playing every now and then but I'm far from considering myself a “geek”. I don't think that not having hardware challenges would really change that.
3. However I would definetely give Stadia a shot just from pure curiosity and to see how the technology works.
4. I think that the platform has a potential of becoming very popular, with that being said I believe Google will be able to keep it at a rather reasonable price (for example around 40zł per month)