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mccannr1 t1_jc26n52 wrote

Reply to comment by orchid_sprout in Stadia’s pivot to a cloud service has also been shut down | After Stadia's commercial failure, the pivot to Immersive Stream for Games is dead, too. by chrisdh79

I don't agree with this. If you marketed it as a console you don't have to buy, then it makes sense to have its own store to buy games from.

Their fuckup was twofold:

First, marketing, or lack thereof. It launched at a PERFECT time. PS5 and Series X had just come out but you could not get one. It was also the beginning of the pandemic so everyone was stuck at home anyway.

So, of course, you'd do an advertising blitz telling people "Next Gen Gaming without the wait", right? Nope. They barely advertised it at all. I know very few people that ever knew Stadia existed.

Second, hardware support or, again, the lack thereof. It's a cloud service, so of course you'd want it on every device imaginable that people are have, right? Nope. You had to buy a Chromecast Ultra. It wouldn't even work on Google's own Google TV stuff until over a year later. Let alone Roku, Fire TV, etc... It made no sense. The whole point was supposed to be "just jump right on and play" but instead you had to go buy a niche hardware dongle that was in the middle of being phased out by Google already.

These were the two things that doomed Stadia. The service itself worked incredibly well. I played Cyberpunk on it at launch and it was awesome. Zero issues. But they made massive mistakes in actually understanding how to sell it as a consumer product. A complete failure in that regard.

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VideoGamesForU t1_jc242nt wrote

Reply to Stadia’s pivot to a cloud service has also been shut down | After Stadia's commercial failure, the pivot to Immersive Stream for Games is dead, too. by chrisdh79

Never used Stadia, but use XCloud since December and played through 11 games (including WoLong last week) through it. XCloud works great for me and I dont have to install shit and use a ton of energy to play games. Even 1000/1000 HiFi Rush without any problems.

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remembersomeone t1_jc1qnkl wrote

Reply to comment by Tom_Jack_Attack in Ring Car Cam hands-on: Amazon's video security ecosystem hits America's highways | Engadget by dapperlemon

If someone really wants my vehicle they don’t care about the camera. It’s not preventative because they’ll probably destroy the camera before it has a chance to upload to the cloud.

Have you seen any of the videos of people parking their nicer vehicle in a sketchy area? They leave the car unlocked and sometimes even leave the windows down.

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tangers69 t1_jc0xfnk wrote

Reply to Tim Cook bets on Apple’s mixed-reality headset to secure his legacy by DarthBuzzard

I think VR hardware today is the equivalent of the suitcase type laptops from the seventies or the huge brick phones from the eighties. Until they can integrate the hardware into a lower cost wearable similar to sunglasses I can’t see much widespread adoption outside of some very specific use cases. However once the hardware is scaled down from a size and price point, you will see large adoption of it, ironically the price and size will then increase as consumers will want faster processing, larger displays, longer battery life etc.

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