So Samurai Showdown is pretty flawless, with a competent setup it's a good game to include opening day. Responsive and clean at whatever resolution it's running.
I play Destiny 2 at 1440p on a 34" Ultrawide, so there was already no way it could compare, and that looked as bad as expected. I've also never played it with a controller, so within a couple minutes I was done messing with that.
So yay, replaced my failing Chromecast, remains to be seen if it'll be used for much more than that. Will probably mess with some more Samurai Showdown.
I kind of like the idea of being able to take the controller to any device and not have to re-pair or anything (since it's connected via wifi to the service, and not to the display you're using). I hope this is something Microsoft does w/ xCloud at some point, in some form. I also like the screenshots going directly to my phone, but I wonder how those are rendered. Like are they a screen of what I am actually seeing rendered on my screen (an image of a stream, basically) or a raw capture from the game itself.
How did you all come to this conclusion?
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My connection isn't bad and I experienced some pretty rough gameplay during the test. To the point that after, I think it was, 4 or 5 sessions I was done using the service. I filled out my reports and testing feedback through each of the sessions and saw the price tag and just laughed my way out the door.
A less than average tier laptop is what you need to play a majority of the offerings, sure not all the fucking maxed out graphics but a better appearance and feedback than using a streaming service..
Dunno, but saw a good point made on Twitter earlier that regardless of where the problem is, Stadia will be blamed for it due to a lack of feedback/communication from the application or service. Be it slow wifi, some network issue between you and them or even the outage (in jest) mentioned above.
As for bandwidth, it's a lot:
We're already on unlimited, as we run 1.6tb or so a month w/ all the streaming and stuff we do so it's not really much of a concern. That activity was probably over 20 minutes, the rest was writing this post. I'll time/play a match of Samurai Showdown later and get a better measurement / time.