LogFAQs > #928754213

From what I have heard Shadow already lets you play games just fine, even FPS games, but I have not tried it myself. I believe the latency is supposed to be pretty low...but they are aiming for this.

"But latency is the thing that gets the most attention. And while it's already proven to be more than playable, [Madj Bakar, VP of Engineering] expects further improvements. "Ultimately, we think, in a year or two, we'll have games that are running faster and feel more responsive in the cloud that they do locally, regardless of how powerful the local machine is," he claims. These improvements will come via a term which sounds rather slippery. "Negative latency" is a concept by which Stadia can set up a game with a buffer of predicted latency between the server and player, and then use various methods to undercut it. It can run the game at a super-fast framerate so it can act on player inputs earlier, or it can predict a player's button presses. These tricks can help the game feel more responsive, potentially more so than a console game running locally at 30fps with a wireless controller."

From what I understand you need something like 15mgbps to connect to stadia at full speed and then you get download times at something like 1 gig ps (unless I'm mixing that up with shadow). The current latency might possibly be an issue for online FPS games but not really for anything else (and they are working on that as mentioned above).

As far as knowing what you are going to be playing/doing, it's a freaking game system, why the heck does anyone care if google knows what games they are going to play? I don't actually care if google knows EVERYTHING I'm going to be doing...in fact, I do most everythign using google already, so they already know if they want lol.
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