streaming hiccups notwithstanding (my main concern is that streaming gaming becomes part of a industry-wide trend to lower the bar for quality at a given resolution (obviously not to mention input latency), the same way that so many of netflix’s 1080p encodes are horrendous compared to widely available releases), the most obviously embarrassing part of stadia to me is how clearly it buts up against google’s complete inability to have consumer-facing business models for anything.
like the subscription costs &c. make no sense
and as usual, gaming’s extreme-enthusiast-hobby aspects seemingly don’t map at all onto the specific compromises involved here, so you wonder who it’s supposed to be for