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Google Stadia's Claims For Streaming In 4K Seem... No, Just No

Google Stadia's Claims For Streaming In 4K Seem... No, Just No

5 years ago
Anonymous $6AJGTL-6_8

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191121/14551643431/google-stadias-claims-streaming-4k-seem-no-just-no.shtml

Google's Stadia product, the company's bid to get gamers to give up their consoles and PC rigs and instead partake in Gaming as a Service, has had a rocky rollout to say the least. The service was already up against America's pathetic broadband coverage and usage caps. Add to that the quite muted applause that came from press and public reviews, not to mention the Obamacare-like rollout of the product, and you have to wonder if this is the kind of hit to a product's reputation that is at all recoverable. It's nearly as though Google developed a list of things that are important to gamers specifically and went out of its way to ensure it would get failing grades on each item.

The latest issue is no different. To combat concerns about how streaming games would behave in terms of quality, Google made claims that the service would stream games in 4k resolution and at 60 frames per second. Reality, it would seem, doesn't line up with those claims.