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For a reminder: right now you can get the Serious Sam Collection, Stacks On Stacks (On Stacks) and Spitlings free as part of Stadia Pro if you kept up your subscription. Thumper is also staying for another month, after it previously due to leave Stadia Pro on March 31 and Metro Exodus has now left Stadia Pro so anyone else would need to buy it.
Also announced recently are two more racing games that will be releasing on Stadia this year with: MotoGP20 which appears to be releasing on April 23 and Monster Jam Steel Titans with no date yet. Just today Google also announced two more games coming to Stadia this year. One of these is the musical Just Shapes & Beats which is already out on other platforms (desktop Linux included) and the manic looking 2v2 game Gunsport which is a 'First on Stadia' title:
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Google still won't say when Stadia Base will be available to all, it's a bit ridiculous really that even now you still cannot even view the Stadia store without an account. Once they do say, we will let you know. Google might want to hurry up though, as not only are they facing off against NVIDIA GeForce Now which sadly isn't supported on Linux and same again with Microsoft's Project xCloud we also have Amazon set to enter the cloud gaming race with Project Tempo so competition is getting intense already.
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We should make a wiki somewhere, for games that came out for desktop Linux due to coming to Stadia first. That's really the main interest in Stadia for me for now.
Last edited by Shmerl on 2 April 2020 at 5:23 pm UTC
Last edited by Shmerl on 2 April 2020 at 5:23 pm UTC
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rustybroomhandle Apr 2, 2020
Sadly for them, I think Stadia have already lost the cloud gaming war.
Metro Exodus is the only confirmed-to-be-in-worked-on one.
We should make a wiki somewhere, for games that came out for desktop Linux due to coming to Stadia first. That's really the main interest in Stadia for me for now.
Metro Exodus is the only confirmed-to-be-in-worked-on one.
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Sadly for them, I think Stadia have already lost the cloud gaming war.
Why would they? They have more expertise than other cloud gaming providers. Nvidia is nowhere a competitor to Google in this sense, not even close. And Nvidia aren't even trying to compete with them in the sense of offering games. They simply offer cloud VMs (Windows only for that matter). So it's a different service in a sense.
Google actually enable multiplayer games that are based on their platform. Nvidia doesn't have anything like that. I'd say Google's main competitor in this sense is Amazon, not Nvidia.
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rustybroomhandle Apr 2, 2020
Sadly for them, I think Stadia have already lost the cloud gaming war.
Why would they? They have more expertise than other cloud gaming providers. Nvidia is nowhere a competitor to Google in this sense, not even close. And Nvidia aren't even trying to compete with them in the sense of offering games. They simply offer cloud VMs (Windows only for that matter). So it's a different service in a sense.
Google actually enable multiplayer games that are based on their platform. Nvidia doesn't have anything like that. I'd say Google's main competitor in this sense is Amazon, not Nvidia.
The NVidia option lets you play way more games than Stadia does. Of all the options, Stadia is the weakest.
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The NVidia option lets you play way more games than Stadia does. Of all the options, Stadia is the weakest.
That doesn't matter. They simply offer you a VM where you can play your Windows games (which you already bought on Steam and such). Google offer something different - a platform to make new games. I'd say Nvidia isn't even a competitor, they are a different category service. The only comparable thing I see is something like Amazon's Lumberyard backend (not Lumberyard itself). Amazon just need to tune it for running actual rendering on the server.
The difference is important. I.e. Stadia allows making games that can't run on a desktop, they need server infrastructure. Nvidia doesn't offer that and it doesn't look like they plan to.
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This is all no doubt true but I'm not sure how much it matters to the average prospective customer.The NVidia option lets you play way more games than Stadia does. Of all the options, Stadia is the weakest.
That doesn't matter. They simply offer you a VM where you can play your Windows games (which you already bought on Steam and such). Google offer something different - a platform to make new games. I'd say Nvidia isn't even a competitor, they are a different category service. The only comparable thing I see is something like Amazon's Lumberyard backend (not Lumberyard itself). Amazon just need to tune it for running actual rendering on the server.
The difference is important. I.e. Stadia allows making games that can't run on a desktop, they need server infrastructure. Nvidia doesn't offer that and it doesn't look like they plan to.
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This is all no doubt true but I'm not sure how much it matters to the average prospective customer.
I'm talking about Google. For customer it means there will be games on Stadia that aren't possible to run on Geforce Now. That alone is already a differentiator that will bring them users.
My point is, they aren't really competing 1:1, so I don't buy the argument that Google are doing something wrong in comparison with other stream services or they are behind them. They are actually ahead and they are doing something different.
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I expect there will at some point be such games. But there ain't any yet, so for now there's no differentiator in sight. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. And even when there are, there may not be very many, and they may or may not be games that tons of people want.This is all no doubt true but I'm not sure how much it matters to the average prospective customer.
I'm talking about Google. For customer it means there will be games on Stadia that aren't possible to run on Geforce Now. That alone is already a differentiator that will bring them users.
My point is, they aren't really competing 1:1, so I don't buy the argument that Google are doing something wrong in comparison with other stream services or they are behind them. They are actually ahead and they are doing something different.
The open question remains, I think, how long Google are willing to carry this thing before it gets to where they hope it will get.
Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 3 April 2020 at 2:40 am UTC
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Google clearly know the above, so I assume they aren't planning to drop it because of their own approach, that would be weird. Though given their past history, anything can happen.
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This is all no doubt true but I'm not sure how much it matters to the average prospective customer.
I'm talking about Google. For customer it means there will be games on Stadia that aren't possible to run on Geforce Now. That alone is already a differentiator that will bring them users.
My point is, they aren't really competing 1:1, so I don't buy the argument that Google are doing something wrong in comparison with other stream services or they are behind them. They are actually ahead and they are doing something different.
google having their own games will only means that people may buy thier exclusives, and exclusive features wont sell the platform alone
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It doesn't have to be their games, but it can be something that's released for the platform, using its features that Geforce Now simply can't have. Geforce now is not a platform for releasing games, it's a Windows VM renting service - they aren't releasing anything and no one is releasing for them. Approach is quite different by design.
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It doesn't have to be their games, but it can be something that's released for the platform, using its features that Geforce Now simply can't have. Geforce now is not a platform for releasing games, it's a Windows VM renting service - they aren't releasing anything and no one is releasing for them. Approach is quite different by design.
Google's platform has a lot of potential, games designed to run exclusively in the data center could offer some pretty ground breaking experiences. Its what excited me the most about the Stadia announcement. But in its current state, Geforce Now is the better value. I hope google sticks to it and someday the promise of Stadia pay's off, but that could be years away. You gotta attract people to your platform before you can convince developers to go all in on a Stadia exclusive, or at least exclusive features, or even just porting a game to it.....
I'm still not counting google out, once they role out more features, lower tiers, and access to it without having to buy the bundle the cost of entry will be so low I'm sure a lot of people will sign up. But for the foreseeable future geforce now seems to be the better option.
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