The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch
  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
    11·
    2 hours ago

    The big problem seems to be that with current interest rates, breaking into cloud gaming with a whole new platform is just not profitable.

    It stopped Google and now it’s looking like it’s stopping Netflix.

    Gamers just don’t want to spend money on new platforms or platforms where their friends aren’t.

    It’s a shame to some degree because Stadia was a cheat free paradise. There will always be latency concerns but I think streamed competitive gaming has a future, particularly as kernel anticheat fails to deliver and high end hardware gets more and more expensive.

    • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      31 minutes ago

      My wife and I had and interesting pandemic that required a lot of travel unfortunately.

      We gamed almost exclusively on Stadia while doing so and it was near flawless. I know it’s meme for Google to kill things but man did that one really sting.

      GeForce Now, PS Whatever and Xbox Cloud all aren’t there when it comes to how immediate Stadia felt. I’ll forever be bummed that they didn’t hold out for a few more years until mainstream adoption.

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
      2·
      57 minutes ago

      Game streaming would not stop cheats, a lot of cheats now work with a capture card and a device that modifies your mouse inputs, you cannot stop that without REALLY good serverside

  • Sickday@kbin.earth
    14·
    4 hours ago

    Did this studio ever actually produce anything? Or did Netflix just have these highly-compensated C-suite guys on payroll for 2 years doing nothing?

    • aubertlone@lemmy.world
      10·
      4 hours ago

      I mean I spent a total of 5 minutes on the “Netflix” games

      Playing the puzzle game with my mom was pretty fun I guess. For as long as the novelty lasted

      So yeah I guess their salaries for 2 years paid for that lmao