Stadia's Launch Keeps Getting Worse...
Let’s get started with google, if you haven’t heard of the delays and issues stadia already has, click up here to get caught up. But let’s look at the new ones. So the three months of stadia you receive was supposed to come with an extra 3 months to play with a friend. That buddy pass will only be sent to you about 2 weeks after you receive your actual bundle. Nice. Then they added that 4k will not be available for PCs at launch. Neither will HDR, or even 5.1 surround. And that support won’t come until at least 2020. Then, all the extra google features like crowd play, state share or keystream connect won’t be available for the games that have been announced, in fact, at launch, none of the youtube or social features will work. They also said that “games” that will support those features will come out next year. This is odd because it makes it seem like the developers have to build those feature into the games and we all know what happens when Dev’s have to add something themselves.. It usually just doesn’t happen. Plus, if you want to do anything like change quality settings for chromecast or account info, you have to do it from your smartphone.
Google, this is bad. Sure a streaming service is hard to build from the ground up, but I think you should have went for a much longer and much more complete beta. Project stream was not a beta, it was essentially a tech demo at this point. And now you’re making people buy hardware for an incomplete service where rollouts of the best promises like social integration, 4k60 and others won’t happen until 2020 and I highly doubt it will be early 2020. That’s bad.
I mean look at Xbox, they’re still in their beta preview phase and they’ve just added to their library which now includes over 50 games. The preview is also coming to PC’s in 2020 and they’re expanding it other countries too. The biggest win Xbox will have over the rest is compatibility with Xbox game pass, so it will truly become a Netflix for games.
Now just to be clear, PS now did it first. But PlayStation has a lot of limitations on the service like only being available on PC and ps4, controller support, and the limited resolution of 720p. At least they plan to fix some of those in the future.
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