Stadia worked really well for me (midwest US), but the other services haven't been as reliable. Back on hardware for me. SteamDeck is really nice at least.
You should give Geforce Now a try. It's dramatically better than Stadia. (I used both.)
GFN has much more powerful graphics (because they're Nvidia), supports 4k, 10-bit color, HDR, ultrawide, etc. Nvidia Reflex helps with latency. You can use your own Steam or Epic or Microsoft library and play with those players. You don't have to rebuy the games like you did in Stadia.
And Nvidia actually cares about it and is constantly improving it. Google abandoned Stadia pretty much right after launch because they're Google.
Yeah, I had GeForce now when it first came out and the Steam library sharing was dope. It just seemed to lag and drop frames a lot where Stadia was seamless.
I'm sure GeForce Now has improved a lot since then. I should give it another shot. I miss gaming in bed from my iPad.
I think it was around for a couple of years and I bought a ton of games on it. When Google sunk it they refunded my purchases, which was nice.
What's funny is I think if Google had said upfront "if we kill this service we'll refund all your games/hardware purchases" they'd have got a lot more traction.
Neat. Bard says it can't access the site when I ask for a summary and give it a link. ChatGPT summarizes it and doesn't seem to reference those instructions even when asked if it read them.
> What kills me is that this is actively hurting their own platforms
I don't think they care. Any useful application will be re-created by Apple and bundled with their OS eventually anyway. Outside devs aren't really necessary for anything but games.
reply