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Google Stadia's Data Cap Challenge Will Be Solved By ISPs, Says Phil Harrison

Stadia will demand a lot from your internet connection, but Google's VP believe internet service providers will make adjustments to enable people to enjoy the service.

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2pacalypsenow1801d ago

Yes because ISP's love to give consumers more freedom.

/s

Nitrowolf21800d ago (Edited 1800d ago )

Yeah they love charging an arm and a leg already after your first year With prices that love to fluctuate for no reason

ISPs don’t care about giving people what they want because at the end of the day they know that in the majority of areas they’re the only company available

The only way this even remotely works is if 5G kicks off and it’s as good as they say it is, then isp would really feel the pressure since consumers can move to another. But until then they know they have a majority of their customer in a tight grip. Sure they can leave, but again the alternatives are usually none or someone who may be worse

SephirothX211800d ago

In Ireland we have a multitude of ISPs. It's very competitive and each one offers no data cap already. UK is the same. I can't see how any capitalist country wouldn't have competition in this market.

Nitrowolf21800d ago (Edited 1800d ago )

@sephiroth

It’s different in the usa for a lot of parts. If you are lucky you can get two, but typically one is far worse than the other, but both like changing prices. Apartments are usually monopolize for just one provider.

I’ve been all over the country here, charter/Comcast/suddenlink/fro ntier love charging higher for no cap premiums. I do a lot of in-home Internet work As part of job

The main problem is that the infrastructure is old and dated, and cities typically only permit the current providers to be in, closing it off from competition. It’s why 5G is being pushed because they don’t need to run Ariel or tear up city blocks just to rerun new lines

rainslacker1800d ago (Edited 1800d ago )

That's what I was thinking. They'll solve the problem just fine. For a small fee of course. Either from Google due to net neutrality not existing anymore, or from their customers who pay for it. By a small fee I mean an exorbitant amount of course.

ISPs are already having strain on their networks, they aren't in a hurry to help all these new technologies have an easier time. They're here to profit off these technologies.

Oh look. Suddenly these sub services aren't quite as cheap or as beneficial as one might initially think.

KillMePrettyPlease1801d ago

they'll charge you a "gamer premium" add on

sprinterboy1800d ago

Yep virgin already did it here in the UK, extra £5 for VIP plus which allowed no downgrade between high peak times 5pm till 10pm. Safe to say it was scrapped after a month or so.
They'll do the same mark my words, so that's console prices going up nxt gen with tariff, ps plus and live price increases, ISP prices will go up and also games will again go up by £5.

Welcome to nxt gen

bloop1800d ago (Edited 1800d ago )

That's madness. I guess we don't have it so bad in Ireland when it comes to ISP's then. I don't think any providers have data caps anymore, 300mb is around the average speed with no congestion (Virgin provide that free of charge here) and prices are fair. Although we do get bent over a table for practically everything else.

supes_241800d ago

Pay attention, the tariffs have been removed or at least delayed. So stop your crying, now what are you gonna complain about since you know how everything will play out in the future?

Profchaos1800d ago

My ISP already does 10 bucks per month gets you a static IP and priority traffic for gaming services

deadfrag1801d ago

Is this guy for real?If anything what ISPs will do is charge people even more once you reach data caps...sometimes i think this guys VIP of gaming publishers dont live on the same Planet has we!

Barneyco1800d ago

The more I hear about Stadia, the more I think it will be DOA. It couldn't happen to a more deserving company.

BuildTheWall1800d ago

He smoked a bit too much crack.

XiNatsuDragnel1799d ago

Those Dragon scales that acnologia gave him were too strong

NovusTerminus1801d ago

I get the thought behind this, as everything moves to streaming ISP's will be put under more pressure from the customers (Netflix, Pandora, and now gaming are all streaming) so in theory they should start competing with the most, or unlimited data because consumers will flock to that.

IN THEORY...

In reality they are going to keep their data caps and just start cashing in on people going over because their kid was on Stadia until ,4AM streaming on their phone, most people will fight to pay the bill as opposed to switching services, I worked for one of the largest cell providers in the US for 4 years and people are willing to pay late / overage fee's every month then go through the hassle of switching providers.

rainslacker1800d ago

The networks are already strained, and they're already charging more for better services. Sometimes by quite a bit.

ISPs are probably the last companies I'd say are going to di this for cheap or free.

It seems as more competition comes they make it even more expensive. It's all just a game to have lower introductory prices, to hope people will stay on longer after that period ends. They expect people to switch often.

Even this whole 5g thing isnt going to bring us to the promised land, and is going to be overpriced for years, just like 4g was when it came around, because the phone companies are no better.

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Interview: Winifred Phillips Discusses the Wizardry Soundtrack -- Gamerhub UK

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The Status of Every PlayStation Franchise

Sony owns a fair few iconic franchises - many dating right back to the original PlayStation. But while we’re pretty familiar with the likes of ongoing series such as God of War, Horizon, and Gran Turismo, there are plenty of PlayStation franchises that haven’t seen the light of day in a long time. So in this video, we’re going to be taking a look at the status of PlayStation’s many IPs, and checking in on when we last heard from them.

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Skuletor3h ago

A 20+ minute video? Just include the written list in the article.

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Take-Two CEO Doesn’t Think AI Will Reduce Employment or Dev Costs; “Stupidest Thing” He’s Heard

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doesn't think AI will reduce employment or lower development costs, and calls it "stupidest thing" he's ever heard.

lodossrage22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

They already have AI trained to do coding.......

How he thinks it's stupid is beyond me, Especially since we see it happening in real time.

CS720h ago

Company A has 300 employees and lays of 200 to replace them with AI to release the same quality game.

Company B has 300 employees and keeps all 300 but instead uses AI to release a game with dramatically larger scale, scope, complexity, short dev cycle etc.

Company B would release a dramatically better product by using humans + AI and consumers would buy the better game.

I actually agree with this concept.

Huey_My_D_Long19h ago(Edited 19h ago)

This is key facet. Its how the AI is used. It's actually is impressive as is and really would make an amazing addition to alot of people in their jobs, not just tech. It also has the potential for businesses to use to lay off large amounts of people, as much as they could to save money on labor. I hope too many companies don't go with the latter. But since usually companies are worried about bottom line over people...we will see some try and hopefully fail. But yeah, if its to help workers like in your company B scenario I'm totally down...Just scared Company A may be too enticing to some ceos and businesses.

Darkegg19h ago

Value of AI and value of humans will both be increased with human-AI complex. Each, by themselves, will not be independently better than the other. Whether AI will ever be independent from humans is the fear question of humans, ironically because of our doing. At this stage, most of the doing is because of humans, not because of AI. AI is doing exactly that by our design, until we have failed ourselves with an AI development that went awry. The biggest take is that humans have only ourselves to blame when things become wrong, and we have to decide what is the ultimate goal with AI we want to accomplish. It would take a person with high morals and high ethics to make right of AI. I would not want businessman to decide what AI should do or what capabilities it can have. AI should be in the hands of people with high moral fiber, or those operating on love, kindness, and compassion.

BlackOni18h ago

AI is SUPPOSED to be used as a tool, not a replacement. It's designed to do two important things artists can take advantage of immediately.

- Make the ideation/reference imaging process much quicker and easier (basically using it as a google search)
- Make mundane and time consuming tasks faster and easier so more time is spent on creation.

Unfortunately, what many have done is used it as a way to replace rather than supplement.

Einhander197216h ago(Edited 15h ago)

CS7

In the ideal world yes.

In the real world where companies have shown little desire to innovate and spent every effort to maximize profits the end result will be the same quality games (if were lucky) made by less people and more AI.

Company Real World: Fires 200 people and makes the same game cheaper using AI and the executives get record bonuses.

Edit:

Lets look at history, specifically auto manufacturing.

In the 70's and 80's the auto unions tried to oppose automation of jobs (robots) stating that they would take peoples jobs. And the people in charge who wanted to make more money said the exact same types of things that are being said about AI. But we can look at history and see that countless types of jobs were in fact replaced by automation, that was of course even compounded upon by computers.

The net effect was that the rich got richer less jobs were needed so wages were forced down by competition for the jobs that were left.

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Number1TailzFan19h ago

You can already make your own SFX with text prompts now as well, of course it will lower development cost and time

1Victor19h ago(Edited 19h ago)

WARNING WARNING ‼️ SARCASM AHEAD
Sure Strauss and robots didn’t take jobs from car factories.
Edit:Sad thing is he believes it and unfortunately he won’t be replaced for a long time by AI

senorfartcushion18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

He doesn't, he's just lying. These people lay people off so they can get bonuses. If AI takes jobs, their bonus goes bigger and the workforce goes smaller.

porkChop16h ago

Because he sees AI as a tool to aid development. He wants to use AI to help make bigger and better games in the same timeframe. Other CEOs want to replace devs with AI to cut costs and make lifeless games faster for a quick buck. Strauss has the right idea, this is how AI should be used. To extend and expand the capabilities of devs.

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jambola22h ago

Ceo says stupid thing
Part 5837384

Zeref20h ago(Edited 20h ago)

I think maybe sometimes we give people in these positions too much credit when it comes to intelligence.

DarXyde35m ago

I think you mean candor, not intelligence.

If you take him to mean what he's saying at face value, sure.

I don't. And I think he's clearly lying.

romulus2320h ago

As long as it doesn't effect his inflated executive salary or his ridiculous bonuses I'm sure he's fine with it.

RNTody19h ago

Hahaha yeah trust the CEO suit over the actual developers making the games. Good one.

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