I wanted a Chromecast Ultra to stream my Quest 2 to the TV. I did eventually buy a Stadia kit because of the Oculus Quest 2 oddly enough. Stadia makes sense for people who can't afford a next gen console or gaming PC and want 4K gaming without the hardware investment to make that happen. I have a huge backlog of games, a high end gaming PC and consoles. I cancelled my Stadia Pro pre-order for three reasons. I did the beta test of Stadia for AC Odyssey and it was great. Tons of people running both Stadia (all twelve of them) and xCloud have raved about how well it works. People shit on Stadia at release saying it had no library and that they didn't believe cloud gaming can work. With that said though, Super Bomberman Online R is really fun to play, and honestly inputs in that game matter far less than others so it's a pretty good one to play on Stadia. I want to have an experience where I don't have to get frustrated at the service I'm using often enough that it detracts from the game I'm playing. But I just don't think it's quite the right thing for me, as I don't want to have a good experience 95% of the time. And if you don't have an actual console/PC, it's an economical way to play newer games without shelling out several hundred bucks for the hardware. All of these are very noticeable and very frustrating to deal with while playing a game. Maybe it'll buffer the inputs with a half second of lag. Maybe there will be missed inputs altogether. Maybe it'll keep holding a direction about half a second after I let go of it. So on occasion the controls feel really sluggish. But the really big one which happens way too frequently is Stadia tries to combat input latency issues by filling in the gaps when it doesn't get the inputs. Once or twice Stadia just straight up froze on me and I had to shut down the chromecast, losing all of my progress I made in the previous hour or so of gameplay. With that said, lets talk about the 5% of the time it doesn't work out so well. I have the Chromecast hooked up to my ethernet so the video quality looks perfectly fine (doesn't have any of that compression that happens with streams a lot), and there is minimal input lag, to the point that honestly it feels to me like I'm playing on a console connected to my TV, not doing a cloud gaming service. I recently got a Stadia bundle for free due to being a Youtube Premium member. Either way, here's my comment I had in the previous post since it's still relevant: The previous discussion about this got deleted, we'll see if this one sticks around.
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