2019 will be the year that sees some of the biggest tech companies in the world diving into the cloud streaming business for games. Google announced its Stadia platform at the Game Developers Conference 2019 for a launch scheduled later this year, Microsoft confirmed plans to publicly test Project xCloud in the coming months and even Amazon is rumored to be readying its own cloud-based streaming service.
With competition often comes strife, and in an interview with the Telegraph (locked behind the publication's paywall), Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer for Xbox Mike Nichols didn't pull any punches when he discussed the weaknesses of the upcoming cloud-based streaming platform.
While he admitted that Google has the infrastructure (7,500 edge node locations) to pull it off, Nichols pointed out that unlike Microsoft they don't have strong ties to game developers and publishers to deliver the content that fans expect.
[...]Microsoft CFO Mike Nichols also went on to reiterate that regardless of the availability Project xCloud, the 'local' experience users can get on an Xbox console or Windows PC will remain superior to the cloud in terms of quality.
Previously: Google and Microsoft Eyeing Streaming Game Services
Google Announces "Stadia" Streaming Game Service
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday April 13 2019, @08:17AM (5 children)
Same ol' drill
Today: stadia sucks, kills your kittens and gets you ebola
In 2 years: hey here's MS remote gaming, much better than stadia because it's integrated with excel.
In 4 years: we decided to axe remote gaming kthxbye
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 13 2019, @09:14AM (2 children)
5 years: Everyone is so disgusted with remote play that they turn to LAN play.
10 years: Faster-than-light neutrinos invented.
12 years: Brain-to-brain gaming with FTL neutrinos.
16 years: Botpocalypse, humans get banhammer.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Saturday April 13 2019, @09:40AM (1 child)
Don't forget
15 years: a subset of brain to brain hardcore gamers become so extreme that they actively block parts of their memory so that they think reality starts within the game. Also they wire their sensory system to the game so they feel the matrix's pain and pleasure. They put scant instructions in an open ended MMO, unimaginatively called 'life', and score assessment will be held at a 'final judgement' conference. Turns out most people choose to idle and fap as much as possible, for their very own embarassment.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @02:59PM
no
us hardcore gamers are so extreme that we have built in blocks to stupid social media promotions and people called curators or influencers, because we only have room to actually game in our brains.
all that other stuff is for the spectators--considering it takes a beta primate or less to pay any attention at all to the kardashians or whoever is shaking ad spaces now
we all know stadia is for convenience gamers, like the people that think phone gaming is hardcore.
dedicate portable gaming systems used to be cool, but they mostly got ruined because Cloud and arbitrary limits on local gaming and even save games. pay extra to cloud, that sort of shit. local gaming shouldn't need a sign-on to someone else's far away server, etc. but maybe a local one just for scoring.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @11:02AM (1 child)
Will this new gaming service run on my Windows phone or my Zune?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 13 2019, @02:49PM
If a streaming game service ends up running in a web browser and not an app, maybe somebody will get it to run on a Windows phone.
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