[RandomGuyDTB]

I don't think gaming needs another competitor, much less one that already has a history of booting its rivals and starting monopolies. Steam is good enough for me.

The thing that's horrific to me is the quoted 20GB of data transferred per hour during playtime. I don't have data limits so it doesn't affect me too hard but my Internet connection hovers right around 5mbips per second. I live in a smallish city in Maine. Google is alienating those in rural areas.

[djhworld]

> I don't think gaming needs another competitor

People said the same about Microsoft in 2001 or whenever it was that they launched the Xbox.

[reklis]

People also said that about Sony when they entered the race against Nintendo and Sega

[gzeus]

I think they are only focused on the future where almost everyone has fast internet.

I like the that they don’t have any load time. It doesn’t look like it’s going to support most games any time soon. It’s going to be mostly hype for a year , I feel.

[karlkatzke]

I don't think they're being realistic about what the world is going to be like any time soon. While the 5th generation cellular protocols will be great for data in cities, it will still leave people in rural areas behind on 4th or earlier generations because the frequencies don't carry well over distances and the wired/optical backbones need to be in place.

[pimterry]

In the US perhaps. The EU is aiming by 2020 to have 100% of homes have at least 30Mbps+ available if they want it, and 50% of homes actually using 100Mbps+ (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/broadband-stra...).

20GB in an hour is about 44Mbps, so a 100Mbps connection is probably a good goal if you want Stadia to work well.

I'd expect high-speed connection uptake to be quite a bit higher amongst their target market, so over here betting than the majority of gaming users have 100Mbps+ at home isn't that crazy at all imo.

[vorpalhex]

It's sort of a chicken and an egg problem though right? There's not enough demand to build out speedy rural infrastructure so it doesn't get built, and because it doesn't get built, nobody makes applications which would really increase demand.

[dmurray]

Not really, you can build the applications for the billions of people who live in dense cities, and then let the rural population demand access to the same.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> I think they are only focused on the future where almost everyone has fast internet.

I don't think that future exists, and I don't think Google thinks it does either considering they abandoned the effort to make it happen.

[soneca]

You don't think gaming needs another competitor because you don't like monopolies?

[jeron]

I think he's saying Google will do so well they'll become a monopoly as Google has monopolistic tendencies