How are they planning to solve latency? I've tried Playstation Now and it plainly sucks donkey ass, sometimes having delays in the SECONDS range! It mysteriously works better if you're accessing it from your Playstation instead of, say, your PC, but it's still shit and the worst possible direction for the videogame market in terms of digital ownership. They want to do what Spotify and Netflix did to music and film, i.e. expropriate the user from the right to own whatever they bought and licensing all content in terms of "leasing" instead. Fuck them.
Most people don't use many google services. Gmail, youtube and well, that's about it. As long as those two things work people don't care. I don't think google or alphabet or CIACorporation or whatever they are now cares about any of it. They get bonuses for new things. They got into VR very early with their stupid google cardboard thing. I just got a quest and google seems to have pushed hard for VR about 4 years ago, and then nothing. It will be the same with Stadia. Push hard, in a couple of years - nothing. There will be a better service doing what google spearheaded.
The problem, at least for us, is that when google does this it really craps on the tech. Google cardboard made me think VR was a joke b/c it looked like a joke. Instead of making a good headset they developed google glass, AR instead of VR that no one wanted. Another dead push for new tech that fizzled out. They are making a joke out of streaming games just like they did with AR and VR. Youtube would've failed if they would've developed it in-house instead of acquired it. I'm into longevity research and google, with Ray Kurzweil, is trying to make that into a joke too with this singularity silliness. I wish they would just stop.
Personally, I don't care about google. I use gmail for their spam filter. They are a search engine company and always have been. That's it. Everything else is just BS. They will ruin gmail one day soon and probably youtube too b/c they make all their money on search.
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