Worst Console Launch Ever: Google Stadia - Rerez

Stadium makes it easy to play your favorite games on any screen in your life. I have been around the block more than once and have personally witnessed the rise of the Titans

console

s that started from nothing and rose to fame and legend, but we have also seen the failures, it all starts on

launch

day, the birth of a

console

in the world, which is its introduction to gamers, but it is also the most important day in the life of a console, companies plan this single day for months and even years, so many pieces have to move.

If they fit into place for a successful

launch

, postponing it could mean years of profits and fame, but what if the pieces don't fit? Well, friends, as far as I can see, we have just witnessed what I would consider to be the

worst

video game platform launch of all time and today, my friends, we are going to explore that same launch. Gather around the campfire, folks, it's time to talk about Google Stadium. A word of caution: some of you may not think it's fair to compare. Stadia vs. traditional video game consoles, unfortunately, while the people at Google don't agree with you, in fact, they even encourage it.

Stadia is not limited by the limitation of traditional console systems, instead of a console or PC, you are using Google's data center. The 10.7 teraflops platform is more powerful than the two best consoles of the previous generation combined, so we must hold them to the standards set by current industry icons like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. What did they announce wher

ever

you are? Stadia allows you to play the latest games, the idea of ​​a box next to your TV was gone, now you would be streaming through the power of the internet, the games would be streamed directly to you via a 4k video signal, 60 frames per second, filled with a large, powerful stadium computer.

Somewhere far away all the hard work was done on launching later this year. You will be able to place Stadia games on your TV. Laptop. Tablet. Don't pixel smart phones. like a phone, laptop, tablet or anything you have with a screen that can make this work and you can play faster than

ever

, wherever you are. Stadia lets you play the latest games, but then we have to look at the drivers. can be different Bend exciting the form factor alone can define the identity of a console like the GameCube controller, PlayStation DualShock and many more. They could also demonstrate new features that could become exclusive to their new platform, such as the reveal of Nintendo's easy motion controls.

They could show something revolutionary to help the platform stand out, huh, it's just a normal looking controller without any new features, huh, well that's lame and if power was what you were looking for, they showed the specs proclaiming that it was more Faster than all current consoles, which I expected their new platform to actually be faster than a quarter-decade-old box sitting under my TV right now, isn't a huge surprise, but how does it actually play? We can see this guy right here, well, he did a demonstration. shows how easy and quick it was to switch between screens, how well it worked, the screens lit up to that point, we can guarantee that, but if you looked at his hands very closely while he played, you would notice that the inputs were very late. in certain cases you would really think they would want to hide that and I think they kind of did, we didn't see any long games on stage and everything was pretty short which led me to believe that maybe this system didn't work as well as They expected it, even though the promise and vision they're trying to convey to you is that you'll be able to put Stadia anywhere you want, wherever you are.

Stadia allows you to play the latest games. It would be fast, it would work, and there would be no headaches. We hope that people, including myself, walk away from that whole GDC announcement incorrectly believing that Stadia would be a platform like Netflix, pay a set amount of money per month, and have access to a ton. of content and it would make sense because their service seems like the next step from something like PlayStation, now a game streaming service on PlayStation 4, pay a monthly fee and stream any game from the selected library, that selection combined with Stay Diaz meant power and flexibility.

It seemed like it would be a good deal after a long period of silence, Google would drop a ton of information about Stadia, including that to put up Stadia on day one you need what they called the founders edition, for 129 grand you would get a Stadia edition controller. limited, a Chromecast Ultra that you need to play on a TV, and a three-month subscription to Stadia Pro, which means playing anywhere with any service at launch actually comes at a cost that requires you to have purchased physical hardware in order for it to play. makes this cloud-based, hardware-agnostic service actually a hardware-based console version.

Imagine that wherever you are, Stadia allows you to play the latest games, but going back to what you get in that package, what is Stadia Pro? You might think that it is a monthly price to get a complete library of games to play well, It's not Stadia Pro, it's basically a monthly cost added on top that gives you some free games from time to time and gives you the ability to play Stadia at the highest quality. That's it, folks, Stadia can only be experienced in the promised 4k at 60 frames per second when you pay an additional fee upfront each month.

Well, that's terrible ice cream. If you want a cherry on top, how about this one? You still have to pay full price for games like traditional ones. Old school video game consoles, that means if you buy a game and don't pay that extra money per month, you won't actually experience the game in the best way possible. By removing that friction, that barrier to entry, we make it simple. and easy for gamers who want to try Stadia for the first time, an excellent deal, so to summarize what has happened so far, the announcement was confusing, no one really knew what to expect, even when Google tried to explain things about Stadia, they apparently became more confused. what was presented as an ultra-easy, affordable and very powerful service was probably not going to be like that in the surprise launch, stay Diaz, the long list of features would not be available on the first day. want to play in their new stadiums to win cake, you will have to making it use Chromecast ultra on your 4k TV for mobile and PC has been delayed until 2020.

I'm excited to get back to using that newfangled Stadia controller wirelessly on TVs only, if you want to use the Stadia controller anywhere else you have to connect it via USB. Oh, you want. play Stadia on your phone, I hope you bought a pixel. You know, the phone that Google makes is not owned by everyone on the planet if you don't have a pixel. Stadia does not work on any other brand. A little bit is limited here. us, wherever you are, Stadia lets you play the latest games, so through all that mixed information that was floating around there was doubt and uncertainty, excitement and fear.

I found myself paying for our founders pack, Armor ombre, now friends, I was on the fence for a while, but when a friend of mine wanted to get out of the next train wreck. I happily bought the ticket from him and got his pre-order so I hopped on for a ride and that brings us to launch day, November 19, 2019, so what happened well on launch day? for many they came and went without their founders' additions arriving, yes that's generally not how these things go, but don't worry, we should still be able to turn on Stadia and play because it's in the cloud, you don't need all that fun hardware that were.

Sending you an email, well no, there was another problem and that problem was called Stadia launch codes. Now what could they be? Well, they are literal codes that Google would email you. Activate and start your account. These did not come out. all at the same time and in some cases they arrived days later and by the way, even if you received your founders edition in the mail but didn't receive the activation codes, you wouldn't actually be able to play Google Stadia Wild like in my case. Luckily, I got the code in the middle of the night after the morning launch and spent all day waiting for the hardware.

I got it a full day later on November 20, 2019, the day after launch, it's almost unheard of to miss launch day in the big leagues of the console world, but they missed it, they did, but finally, after From all this waiting, what the stadiums were like, how well the platform worked, friends, this is where it gets really fun. I have personally experienced every possible problem you could have with streaming a video game. The service's input lag is measured in full seconds, making almost any game on the platform virtually uncontrollable, but don't take my word for it, here's the Washington Post's gene park at their headquarters demonstrating the input lag we have, some instant action.

If you ask me, Tavia is based on an infrastructure where no one else has more edge nodes, meaning the computing resources are closer to the players, resulting in better performance if input lag doesn't bother you. affected, maybe the random frame drops would happen suddenly and all. about the place, you never know when it will show up, but when it does, it sucks. Keep this in mind, the game is still running completely somewhere else and has no idea that you missed that frame, so it just keeps moving forward as if you saw it. that's not good, no matter what game you're playing now, if the frame drops, there's input lag, okay, meet our next brutal adversary resolution drops, oh, I'm sure the game still runs fine on the Google headquarters, but here in the real world.

I'm struggling with the video streaming signal itself, it can have issues where to keep the resolution working significantly, this makes everything look like a bunch of Legos, just like frame drops, it's very sudden and you never know when it will happen. I'm not. I'm going to lie to you. I've never had a consistent experience with Stadia. I've played it on multiple devices from multiple locations and it's never been reliable. I don't care what excuses anyone makes for this, but they don't work on me. I've played every major video game console ever released, including weird, obscure hardware that failed to grab attention.

Nothing I've played that was new had problems like this, it's unheard of and the big problem with it is that you will. You'll probably find at least a few people online who haven't had any problems because maybe they have the right connection, maybe they're closer to the Stadia servers, maybe they just have the exact combination of everything to work, who knows, but can not. to guarantee it will work for everyone every time, it's excusable, I think I'm being unfair, well how about this is an example if you bought a new Nintendo switch and it only played games sometimes and the other times it just didn't work.

Yeah, that's what I thought, wherever you are, Stadia lets you play the latest games, but okay, let's say it's my internet connection, the various ones I've used, let's say everything was working perfectly and I mean perfectly, what you do? I have to look forward to the cases where I got a solid normal connection, yes it worked but I don't think it is working as well as we were led to believe I would remember in the scenario when they said Vidya is not limited by the systems limitation 10.7 teraflops traditional console systems are more powerful than the two best consoles of the previous generation combined, yes, that makes me believe that Stadia will perform better than the best current systems and my PC shouldn't even be a competitor because Let's face it: a supercomputer versus a box in my living room, the supercomputer should win, but it doesn't.

Instead of a console or PC, you're using Google's data center, as the Stadia platform tends to run games at lower resolutions than they took me to. I think this was something I noticed right away when I started playing, it just didn't look that good. I'm talking, obviously, it's easy to see aliasing artifacts, those are the little teeth that you see all over the scene here if I play similar games on Xbox 1 much higher on those platforms and will look better while I do it on Stadia. I could get a higher frame rate, but the resolution is definitely lower, why not do a comparison if I take this? a scene from Destiny 2 and compare it consecutively to my PC, you can easily see that the details in this scene are lower on Stadia, look at that tree in the back here, yes, on Stadia it looks likeif the toothpick something just wasn't there. adding up and this is a difference I can notice in multiple games with multiple examples now why is this a problem?

Phil Harrison on Twitter a month before the release of Stay Diaz stated that all games at launch would support 4k wherever you are. Stadia lets you play. the latest games, but you know what I think he means is that streaming video running at 4k doesn't mean the game is, so what you're getting is a lower quality game that's streaming at a higher resolution. high. This was something that I noticed, but I was not alone, the people at Digital Foundry, in my opinion, the leaders of the video game and image quality analysis community also noticed these problems and made it very clear in their videos that the stadium I was not running games at the resolutions that were advertised. to run and if all that wasn't enough proof and you needed a little more, how about this Bungie?

The creators of Destiny stated in an interview with The Edge that the game was running in stadiums at 1080p, not 4k. and on the PC equivalent with medium settings. I don't know about you guys, but I'm starting to feel like I've been lied to, maybe you have an older platform or console running Destiny, or any of the other games and arenas you might see. Better is very possible but that's not what Stadia is supposed to be, this platform is meant to be a giant leap over modern systems, not a small one, and very soon its competition will become fiercer with upcoming consoles like the Xbox Series , which may well be more powerful than what Stadia is currently demonstrating, so maybe power isn't what will make this work, but how about the ability to stream games itself?

Stadia is at least the leader in that. Remember how we talked about PlayStation now from the beginning, well, they didn't just beat. Stadia to market, but they also have a much more prolific library: 22 games on Stadia at launch, hundreds of games on PlayStation now, and how can Stadia compete with that when they haven't even announced their own games created and designed in-house? What Stadia is all about gaming. I think it's pretty obvious to see that this entire event was a massive series of problems that led to what can only be seen as a failure at launch despite the many players who have new wounds on Stadia.

There are plenty of others who had nothing but sunshine and rainbows and there will probably be a core group of people who will support Stadium in the future and see it as the best option for playing a lot of video games and that's okay. Stadiums depend on your Internet. The connection is consistent, solid, and fast enough to work all the time. There are only a privileged few who can claim such stability and even with all the internet connections I have access to, it's still not a reality for me if you think of stadiums as a light. switch and when you turn it on it doesn't always turn on the lights, you wouldn't trust it, and I think that's what Stadia is a light switch that you can't trust.

I can't give you an answer for a long time. term Stadia's success, well, Stadia breaks brave new ground in the gaming history books or will it go the same way as the live cloud gaming service. What's online? You ask exactly my point, but whatever the outcome, whatever the future holds, whatever might happen every time I think about Stadia I will always think about one thing: having the

worst

console launch of all time.