- You can go to a friend's apartment with a Chromecast and just start playing games YOU own like CyberPunk & Assasins Creed within seconds on their TV (assuming they have a controller or you brought your own)
- You can go to Stadia.com on Chrome and just start playing these games from the browser using the Keyboard/Mouse
- The other day I was parked at a Target and I was able to play Cyberpunk on my phone using my phone's internet connection
- You don't have to keep worrying about constantly updating hardware, downloading game patches, deleting stored games etc.
- Time to load the game between saved checkpoints and missions is also much faster since the games run on a superior hardware.
Except YOU don’t own them, google does, which exactly why I would never get stadia.
You can’t take the games out (or resell them) so it’s a hard sell for me.
There are some free games included, of course, but I didn't find anything I was interested in playing there.
What I want is something like Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass, where you pay a fixed price per month to play the full library of games, with nothing else on top of that. A Netflix for games, if you will. I don't want to shell out $60 for Cyberpunk 2077.
(The absence of an easy way to trial games on consoles is problematic, in my opinion. I purchased Cyberpunk on my Xbox One before I realized how bad it performs on that console, and fortunately I was able to get a refund.)
Unfortunately, Xbox Game Pass is predictably hobbled by a very limited library (and they keep removing good stuff), and the fact that the games are tied to the platform they've been developed for.
What I'd like is basically Game Pass + Stadia.
I found the library of games generally unappealing. I did play a few titles, including Player Unknown. The stuttering and lag in the game reminded me of playing Quake 3 Arena on a 56K circa 1999.
Also, graphically the game wouldn’t run at my monitors 1440p. The graphics generally looked washed out. I thought it was just a poorly built game, but then I saw gameplay (non Stadia) on YouTube and realized the Stadia version was itself awful.
I want is a service that:
* Lets me play my existing library of games (what I own on Steam, Origin, Battle.net)
* Has League of Legends
* Streams in 1440p 144fps
I haven't found anything that does this.
Do you have source for this? This sounds incorrect. My impression is that the Stadia Pro is capable of sending 4K, assuming the game developer can optimize their game to run at a good framerate with 4K.
[1] https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setu...
You could try wrangling 1440p144 from your hardware, not sure how high quality it can get
144 fps is one frame every 7ms. Are there even any residential internet offers where you can get a ping that low to anything on the internet?
To play on a TV you’ll need a chromecast ultra and the Stadia controller ($100) https://store.google.com/us/product/stadia
Source: I also bought Stadia for Cyberpunk
It just has to be recognized as an HTML5 gamepad (there are various HTML5 tester sites online)
The current sale matches steam for the games I checked.
Library size is still a concern.
Lucky you, I can't even play on most TVs hooked as-is via HDMI because of horrendous render lag.
Makes me think people that say this have never played on a high end PC, which in turn has lower latency compared to a last gen console. And that's considering the fact that even modern PC have a TON of latency. NVIDIA seems to be working towards that, thankfully.
I bet playing Quake 3 Arena multiplayer on Stadia would be noticeably worse that on a PC from 20 years ago.
I mainly play twitchy shooters on a fairly high-end PC (CSGO, Tarkov, Q3A back in the day) and was super impressed with Stadia to play games like Assassin's Creed. It felt like I had my PC anywhere, but I attribute that to the forgiving latency requirements for the game.
I wouldn't expect CSGO to work as well (though I'd definitely try it).
