ThrashZoneHi,
USD verses EUR is pretty lopsided :fear:

ThrashZoneHi,
USD verses EUR is pretty lopsided :fear:

GenericNinjaSo you are releasing a Google game streaming laptop basically the week after the utter failure of the Google Stadia game streaming service... Bold choice lets see how it works out for them.

GenericNinjaSo you are releasing a Google game streaming laptop basically the week after the utter failure of the Google Stadia game streaming service... Bold choice lets see how it works out for them.

SOAREVERSORIt says it's for nVidia's streaming service up in the cloud which is called POD.

There is also the fact that gaming is going to the cloud in the near future. Developers, hardware makers, console companies have all stated this pretty openly. It's already partly the case for a fair amount of games but it's going to be fully the case. That's the next evolution. So Acer isn't dumb, people who think they are going to avoid the future of gaming being in the cloud are just niave at this point. It's like those who said physical media will stay and Steam is now the future and look what happened there? And just as with digital downloads the PC is going to be the first up into the cloud!

cvaldesClearly Acer did not start working on this Chromebook a month ago. Most likely it has been on a roadmap for a year. The Stadia closure is very inconvenient and it's obvious that a Stadia manager was supposed to give some flowery approval. It is very likely that finished units were rolling off a manufacturing line when Google announced Stadia's shuttering.

Today ASUS and Lenovo also announced similar cloud gaming-focused Chromebooks so clearly this was intended to be a splashy launch event for Stadia's untimely shuttering.



No. NIVIDIA's streaming service is called GeForce NOW. The machine the service runs on is called SuperPOD.

NVIDIA markets the former to consumers since that's what they pay for: the service. Whatever they call the machine that hosts it isn't really relevant to Joe Consumer. In the same way, consumers know about Spotify the music, not the machines they run on, like the DodgyCorp FML 420 XL Super Cluster.



All gaming platforms will start migrating to the cloud. My guess is that it will be based more on content type rather than platform. Games that aren't so sensitive to input latency will head to the cloud first. Fast action FPS titles like Apex Legends will stay on local hardware for a long time.

For sure, there will probably always be a niche group of PC gaming enthusiasts who will keep it alive as long as the games themselves are designed and developed on PC. In that sense, PC gaming will be the most tenacious in clinging to local hardware.

TheinsanegamerNWe've been hearing that for over a decade now. Still hasnt happened, and as stadia shown, still isnt happening either. GeforceNOW is still a tiny drop in the bucket compared to local sales, and no matter how much you beg and plead, you cant beat physics. Latency will kill cloud gaming. EVERY. TIME.

cvaldesWell, despite all the skepticism, big companies like Microsoft and Amazon believe that gaming is headed to the cloud. It's not if at this point, it's when, how, which ones. And remember that it's not just service providers, there are content creators (including top directors like Hideo Kojima) who are thinking of the next generation titles focused on cloud gaming.

No one expects all titles to go to the cloud overnight. It will happen gradually starting with titles that are turn-based strategy or card games not reflex-reliant FPS.

Remember that the vast majority of people who play games would be described as "casual" and mobile gaming makes more revenue than console and PC gaming. Input latency is less important with Minecraft than Valorant.

One thing consistent about these cloud gaming discussions is the preponderance of participants who only see gaming as fast action FPS titles. They ignore basically every other game that isn't this type despite the fact titles like Minecraft, Animal Crossing, Farmville, Candy Crush are some of the most popular games of all time.

bonehead123Well, cloud gammin will either flourish, or it will die, as the recent crash & burn of Stadia has proven all too well.....

And the release of a few overpriced, circus-lite 'em up rainbow pukey poopoo chromebooks aint gonna change that equation by much either, at least not for a while yet...

You'da thought that with all of it's gazzilllions of $$, massive R&D resources, and global reach, googley of all companies should have been able to make it work, but now with them out of the way, perhaps several of those "other" gazzilllionaire companies will join forces & really start to push harder for it....

yea right :D

cvaldesI'm not surprised that Google Stadia failed. Alphabet is not a gaming company, hell they can't even figure out social networking.

The writing was on the wall the moment Google closed their in-house game studio. Content is king and throwing all the money in the world at infrastructure isn't the way to succeed in the entertainment industry.

Microsoft has stated their belief that cloud streaming is part of gaming's future and in particular are looking at it as an eventual console replacement. Microsoft -- like others -- doesn't make a tidy profit on console hardware. It mostly breaks even over the life of the console. They make their big bucks from content sales (individual games and now Xbox Game Pass) as well as accessories (like Xbox gamepads).

Both Sony and Nintendo are also looking at cloud gaming.

TheinsanegamerNOnlive, Playstation now, Stadia. Which generation of cloud gaming do you think first claimed to be the "future of gaming" and talk abound of how physical consoles were on their way out and how only the fast paced games would be rendered locally?

Trick question: they all did. nobody wants to play games with notable input lag and heavy subscriptions.

I think the fact that stadia was often unplayable when running on Google's own Google Fiber service says a lot about the "future" of cloud gaming.

ixiEhmm, gamers play witcher witch touch pad and ohe arm??? Acer just showed us that they have no idea what a gamer is -_-.

Gmr_ChickLOL, I was hoping somebody else caught this! Like, Acer literally photoshopped in a screenshot, for fuck's sake :roll: I mean, the dude isn't even attempting to look like he's actually playing the game :roll:

cvaldesWell, despite all the skepticism, big companies like Microsoft and Amazon believe that gaming is headed to the cloud. It's not if at this point, it's when, how, which ones. And remember that it's not just service providers, there are content creators (including top directors like Hideo Kojima) who are thinking of the next generation titles focused on cloud gaming.

No one expects all titles to go to the cloud overnight. It will happen gradually starting with titles that are turn-based strategy or card games not reflex-reliant FPS.

Remember that the vast majority of people who play games would be described as "casual" and mobile gaming makes more revenue than console and PC gaming. Input latency is less important with Minecraft than Valorant.

One thing consistent about these cloud gaming discussions is the preponderance of participants who only see gaming as fast action FPS titles. They ignore basically every other game that isn't this type despite the fact titles like Minecraft, Animal Crossing, Farmville, Candy Crush are some of the most popular games of all time.