Stadia will allow something like "Ready Player One" to become a reality
The Ready Player One movie was one of my favorites from last year. The story consists of a somewhat futuristic society where most people spend their days in a virtual world where they meet people, have jobs, etc. To make a long story short: there is a corporation with aspirations to control the entire game world so when the creator of the game dies, the quest for a secret Easter Egg begins that will allow the person who finds it to become the heir of the game's creator and control the entire virtual world. It is here when the dispute between this corporation and all other players begins. This is the trailer:
The fact is that this film shows a society where most of its inhabitants spend their time in a totally immersive virtual world. To achieve a videogame of this magnitude, it is necessary to have an infrastructure that until recently only existed in the minds of gamers. But recently I started reading about Stadia and this is the future itself coming true right before our eyes.
Stadia is a new service from Google that will be released this year. It allows users to run video games on dedicated Google servers exclusively for this service, and through a high-speed internet connection, the users receives the live video from the game on their screen, like a Youtube video, with the difference that instead of a video the user will be watching his video game in real-time.
To ensure that response times are fast enough (something basic in a video game) Google built a whole infrastructure of servers around the world that should guarantee an acceptable response time between the moment when the user presses a button until when we see that action being reflected In the game, which as we well know, it must be something instantaneous.
In the future, Google executives have said that this platform will allow the creation of video games that until now were not possible because with Stadia neither users nor developers will be limited by the power of a specific console or graphics card.
The prices of this service are quite accessible, for streaming in 4k they will only charge $10 per month, and for streaming in 1080p with basic stereo sound the price is 0, that is, they offer for free their infrastructure to all those who want to play in 1080p or lower resolutions. Video games remain at the same market price as always, so AAA productions should cost $60. Stadia eliminates the need for powerful hardware (console or PC graphics card) and is not a Netflix-style video game service (where the monthly fee includes the cost of content, in this case games). The Netflix model in video games can be found on Apple Arcade and PS Now. Microsoft is working on a similar service but I am not sure if it's gonna be Netflix-like or Stadia-like.
A service like Stadia can allow you to run video games that would normally require a powerful console or PC on mobile devices, tablets, smart TVs, low-power PCs, and I suppose there will eventually be virtual reality glasses capable of connecting directly to Stadia. So with fast internet, and a service like Stadia anyone could at any time/place submerge themselves in a fairly complex virtual world and spend their days in there.
The success of this service will depend on its videogame catalog, for the time being, the one I consider as the best videogame for next year, Cyberpunk 2077, is already confirmed that it will be available on Stadia. Interesting times are coming.
This is one of Cyberpunk 2077's trailers, I recommend watching it until the end where they present a famous actor as one of the in-game characters.
If you want to see more, this is a 48-minute gameplay published by the creators themselves, truly breathtaking:
interesting. Hard to believe that google would do this for free... maybe they have plans to charge more for it later... or perhaps just like in Ready Player One they will fill most of the screen with adverts that you have to pay to make go away :)
By offering 1080p with stereo sound for free those people that doubt the service will be able to try it out for free. For 5.1 sound, 4k, among other perks, the users will have to pay 10$ per month.
If someone can offer 1080p for free it is Google. There are other smaller companies that have been offering a similar service but they are very expensive. With Stadia most people will surely be able to afford it.
That would really suck, I think competition will keep the prices very affordable.
This will guarantee 100% the failure of this project, there is nothing most disturbing for gaming that suddenly having an ad interrupting the experience. I don't think that will happen.
Also, I don't recall seeing ads on Ready Player One?
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