i have one on pre order
i want to reserve the gamertag 420BlazeIt or 69YourMom
Yea, I'm about to cancel....I have been a supporter of this but I just cancelled due to not really needing a Chromecast anymore. I just stream straight through my smart tv, so I can't picture needing the Chromecast. The Stadia for an extra $80 was just going to be a bonus. I may look into it again once the kids are a bit older.
Is the controller just a standard Bluetooth controller? Will it work anywhere else?
The idea is f'ing cool, because I travel every single week for work. The idea of being able to play new games instantly, on hotel internet, without having to download 40+ gigs, is amazing. But if I have to buy all the games at full price on Stadia, and they are all trapped inside their own Eco-system, where no one else is playing, that kind of sucks.
Like Destiny 2, can Stadia players, play with Steam players? I didn't think they were going to be able too?
I want to support the technology and I'm tempted to keep it for that reason but sounds like it's gonna be a shit show.in theory stadia players could play with others, its up to each developer. right now nope, every game is stadia only players if its multiplayer. To be fair only in the last few short weeks has it really started happening at all, between Fortnite hookup up various groups and call of duty letting everyone play together. I'd expect a bigger push for people to demand more cross play in 2020.
nothing really works the way you want to, right now. the controller only works wirelessly with a chromecast ultra, and only the one it ships with. For phones and laptops and PC you have to plug it in. its supposed to be wireless everywhere at some point, but who knows when. It talks to the datacenter directly over WiFi too, it doesn't need your TV (pc, phone, etc) as an intermediary so it should theoretically be extremely low latency. Theoretically. It is apparently really hard to pull off which is why its only launching really with chromecast ultra support.
That would mean you need to plug in that ultra into every TV hotel you visit, which you know is nearly impossible as hotels lock their TV HDMI sources to not allow random shit to be plugged in.
You could use it with a phone (or pc, tablet, etc) but it would have to be wired for now with the controller. That'll work perfectly fine this year.
The only game you get with your 3 month pro trial is Destiny 2, the full version. I'm gonna fuck with that a bit, and i'm basically paying $130 to do it
That would mean you need to plug in that ultra into every TV hotel you visit
Traveling every single week, at least here in the Northwest, it has gotten a lot better. With Hilton, I'm Diamond and get their "Premium" tier of internet. That was getting me 15 down/up recently, but I guess that's still not even fast enough for Stadia. Many hotels are starting to offer wired connections as well. Holiday Inn Express I was at recently had 35 up/down on a wired connection. I was pretty impressed.We're not in the future where hotels can deliver the necessary bandwidth anyway. I'm lucky if I can browse the web half the time.
So is Destiny 2 on Stadia its own thing or do you play with Steam players? How does that work? I feel like Stadia is its own console, basically, which means you'll have like 8 people to play with in Destiny.