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Google Stadia Review - Nerd Reactor

The Google Stadia delivers on beautiful 4K gaming with HDR and 5.1 surround sound in the cloud space, and you can play across multiple supported devices.

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Retroman1657d ago ShowReplies(5)
Baza1657d ago

Look at these dudes trying to get kudos from Google. Good strategy when no one knows who you are

xX-oldboy-Xx1657d ago

I didn't think that 4K HDR 5.1 was available at launch? I'm sure there was a few articles stating that recently.

Either way - I'm sacrificing goats and praying to God's I didn't know existed for Stadia's failure.

darthv721657d ago

That seems awfully petty to me. I'm not interested in Stadia but I won't wish ill will on something because it doesnt interest me or i don't agree with it. To each their own I guess.

xX-oldboy-Xx1657d ago

hahaha - yes mate - extremely petty, but I thi k Google can take the loss. Something tells me they'll be fine.

We have a tech giant muscling in our space, not actually investing in our space - of course I want it to fail.

Keep singing Kumbaya big fella.

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porkChop1657d ago

It's not available on PC until next year.

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SephirothX211657d ago

Muscling? They are innovating. You're just a moron and software people like me laugh at you. The only thing I hope fails are the hearts of cancerous fanboys..

xX-oldboy-Xx1657d ago

Moron? nice one - You say innovating, I say maximising profits for the least outlay.

One of the largest companies in world wants a slice of the growing gaming market, thats all Stadia is.

At least ms had the decency to release a console and a few exclusives.

rainslacker1656d ago (Edited 1656d ago )

I'm a software person too. Even said that asynchronous cloud compute was possible back in the day when MS was talking about it for CD3, despite all the people saying it wasn't. MS showed it was possible. Lackluster representation, but good proof of concept.

I know that streaming can work as well. In fact, I've used PSNow, and had no major issues with it. I suspect MS xCloud will work fine. I suspect Google's service will work fine.

I still think that Google will fail, unless they have a huge change in the way they're marketing the service, and figure out who they're actually targeting with the service. Google has name recognition, but they don't have any presence in gaming. PSNow and xCloud will be bolstered by their console user base. Google can only hope to rope people in by linking their service to other services, or a huge marketing campaign.

I don't hope that Stadia fails, but know it probably will.

Dragonscale1656d ago

Innovating my a55, more like bandwagon jumping tbh. And it looks like the wheels have fallen off before it even got started lol. If you're the sort of fanboy that stadia attracts then it deserves to fail with comments like that fgs.

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Pancit_Canton1657d ago

How much is this site got paid for the review? Asking for a friend

yomfweeee1657d ago

Why do you all keep referencing killedbygoogle.com? Why are you upset that they try a lot of things? There's no harm in it. If a product/service isn't popular, that will abandon it... just like any other company.

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RememberThe3571657d ago

Yeah but if you are still using and liking the products they keep killing, it would make sense if you felt a certain way about that. I have no issue with Google, but trusting them to stick with Stadia is probably foolish at this point. They'll probably kill it after a year and bring it back in a decade with a new name and logo.

uth111657d ago

After you pay $60 each for a bunch of games, and they pull the plug on the service, then what?

yomfweeee1657d ago

Then you can complain. That is a different scenario than free products they kill off.

Edgelordsupreme1656d ago

You also dont know what their refund system would be, are there any examples of services Google ran that you purchased software and they shut down later with no refund system in place? No? Well I guess assuming the worst case scenario is kinda childish.

Me personally I'm not interested in using a stadia to play games that I could play on local hardware. Most people are bound to feel similar and I dont see Stadia taking off.

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Every PlayStation Studios game available now on Windows PC

Windows Central writes: "Many PlayStation Studios games that are ported to PC get dedicated PS5 DualSense support, which allows users to experience haptic feedback and adaptive trigger support without actually having to own a PS5.

According to Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, it's still the company's intent to launch the bigger single-player games on PS5 first, before later bringing the games to PC. This might not be the case for multiplayer games however, which are considered okay to launch simultaneously on console and PC."

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ocelot0716h ago

My guess is after god of war. Probably last of us 2 that's a almost 4 year old game now and by the time it's released on pc it will be more than 4 years old or close to 5.

Elda11h ago

Every old Playstation game that is now on PC.

shinoff21831h ago

Right. I definitely see what a headlined from a website named windows central was trying to do though. It's cute little wordplay to help out the green box

Flewid63818m ago

Are PlayStation games no longer good or worth playing once they are old?

XiNatsuDragnel9h ago

Good at least they can sell hardware

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Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie

Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie. This is something of a homecoming, as Microsoft owns Activision.

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Obscure_Observer1d 3h ago

Very very early in development. Still, fantastic news!

Let´s GO!!!

Lightning771d 1h ago

I guess.

How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )

At least it wouldn't be MS of all ppl destroying them.

MS really should let go Tango go like they did TFB here.

darthv721d 1h ago (Edited 1d 1h ago )

one was under Bethesda (Tango) the other under Activision (TFB). Clearly each one handled the separations of their subordinates differently.

Obscure_Observer1d ago (Edited 1d ago )

"How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )"

Perhaps because Zenimax and ABK handles such matters differently based on their own internal policies as "independent" publishers.

Whoever, chances are it´s simply because MS didn´t wanted Tango or Austin to be acquired by competitors and develop new bangers for them, giving MS a bad rep in a possible future. Which could also be the reason why they ensured an exclusive partnership with TFB and its new game, before anyone else.

Sad and disgusting. But it is what it is.

Lightning7721h ago(Edited 21h ago)

"Whoever, chances are it´s simply because MS didn´t wanted Tango or Austin to be acquired by competitors and develop new bangers for them, giving MS a bad rep in a possible future."

MS has a bad rep now because those studios are no more. I rather them sell the studio continue to make multiplatform releases, while MS continues to focus on whatever they're doing. If they didn't want Tango around they should separated from them or sell them to, like they did TFB.

It's inexcusable, they have options on how to handle studios they don't want anymore with killing jobs. Not just MS but the rest of the industry also.

Sad and disgusting sure how many will get shut down next year or this year even?

I don't trust MS decisions and motivations at this point. You have to admit they make one dumb move after another.

Obscure_Observer13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

"MS has a bad rep now because those studios are no more. I rather them sell the studio continue to make multiplatform releases, while MS continues to focus on whatever they're doing. If they didn't want Tango around they should separated from them or sell them to, like they did TFB."

Imo, MS separated from TFB because they didn´t had a game associated with Xbox yet, unlike Tango.

"I don't trust MS decisions and motivations at this point. You have to admit they make one dumb move after another."

Fair enough. It was indeed an epic dumb move from them to close Tango.

Still, all to be forgotten, like always have. This is not the first time a big publisher shuts down a beloved and/or successful studio out of nowhere and certainly won´t be the last. Do you remember Lionhead? Do you remember Evolution Studios? Yeah... both were beloved studios and yet, those companies kill those studios in q blink of an eye and got away with it.

anast11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

The studio boss made some money from this transaction. Once the game releases, the studio will get chopped up.

-Foxtrot1d 3h ago

Manages to buy their freedom especially after all the shit Microsoft has been doing with its studios lately

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Goes right back to them as partners.

Okaaaaaay...

darthv721d 1h ago

Id venture a guess that TFB working directly with MS was a better outcome than working through Activision to get to MS.

VersusDMC23h ago

From the article...

"Toys for Bob spun out as an indie back in February after Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs that impacted 86 employees, which was more than half of the staff"

I doubt those 86 employees enjoyed the Microsoft experience over Activisions.

Inverno23h ago

MS shuts down studios because of lack of resources and then helps these guys by giving em resources. Also MS is what forced them to buy their freedom in the first place? What kind of logic 😂

Chevalier19h ago

The best thing is that the company that is worth $3 trillion and owns the company instead of Xbox lacks resources. How the hell does a company worth $3 trillion making a measly $70 billion purchase they 'can't' support. Lol

BlindMango1h ago

The reason they would need to "partner with Microsoft" is simply to make a game that's part of a franchise that Microsoft owns. Meaning they're probably going to make a new Spyro game - they're still an independent studio, but are making a game in a franchise that Microsoft owns. It's kind of like Remedy partnering with Rockstar to be able to make the Max Payne remakes.

shinoff21831h ago

It was probably the deal to get released from Ms

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Sciurus_vulgaris1d 1h ago (Edited 1d 1h ago )

Xbox’s gaming division seems to still function as 3 semi-autonomous sub-divisions, Xbox Studios, Bethesda and ABK. The three main sub-divisions can seemingly shut down or build studios and set up partnerships independently. This would explain why Bethesda can recently shutdown studios, while ABK spins off one studio, while building a new one. Plus, Toys for Bob could be spun off by ABK, only to immediately re-partner with Microsoft.

Chevalier19h ago

That's absolutely 💯 BS. Any sane 'autonomous' company would NOT put their games on Gamepass day 1 like COD will lose probably billions.

Also they're all under Xbox game studios so any autonomy is an illusion.

PhillyDonJawn7h ago

No, I'm sure MS can and does step in when they want something done specifically but I'm also sure they let them also work independently

shinoff21831h ago

I highly highly doubt this. Ms controls all. The guys aren't gonna be allowed to just shut something down like that without approval. No way

Elda19h ago

Either a kiddie game or something uninteresting.

Obscure_Observer13h ago

Don´t worry. You won´t be playing it anyway since their next game will possible be a next gen Xbox console game.

PhillyDonJawn7h ago

Right probably something like astrobot

romulus237h ago

Nah he said "uninteresting", lots of people are interested in Astro Bot.

Elda5h ago

Never Astro Bot. Astro Bot looks better than any exclusive released on XB this entire generation & believe there hasn't been much.

Asplundh4h ago

Crash 4 was good, so I'm hopeful.

PhillyDonJawn3h ago

Hey you said that about SOT and looks like many ppl on PS is playing it. You also found bugsnax interesting ffs your opinion hold no weight lol.

Elda2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

Bugsnax is BS, tried it & quickly deleted it. It's a game that fits right on Gamepass. PS5 owners that are probably playing the boring SOT you could count on one hand. LMAO!!...don't try to come for me.

PhillyDonJawn28m ago

So you admit bugsnax interested you enough to try? 😂 someone gotta call you out on the foolishness.

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What Happens to Your Steam Account When You Die?

The Outerhaven writes: While Steam has come out recently, stating that Steam accounts can't be transferred, we need to think about it since we all will eventually kick the bucket. But if Valve is denying transferring accounts, what can be done? Plenty, actually.

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thorstein2d ago

It goes to my kids because I gave them the passwords.

To Steam: Missio has a song that conveys my feelings about you stealing my purchase after I die. It's called "Middle Fingers"

shinoff21831d 9h ago

Pretty much. My son knows my info.

Abear211d 9h ago

Yeah worrying about digital ownership when you’re on the other side of the grass seems a little strange, but also on brand for these millennial journalists to worry about.

qalpha18h ago

I'm sure Keith will be happy to hear he's a millennial journalist.

Goodguy011d 13h ago

I suppose if I have kids, I'd just give em my account details by retirement age. If I die young then...idk lol.

CrimsonWing691d 10h ago

Yea, I mean just give someone the password to your account. Is that difficult to do or something? Like, I’m legit asking because I don’t know.

anast1d 8h ago (Edited 1d 8h ago )

It's not difficult but It's against the policy. If they find out, they will lock the account permanently.

CrimsonWing691d 7h ago

Ah ok, I had a feeling there was something like that. It seems kind of weird that you can’t just hand your account over to a family member or friend and let them take over the account.

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