I think that if you hook it to your PC with a USB cable and update its firmware, it can now work through bluetooth, so if your PC already supports bluetooth devices, you don’t need the dongle anymore. I did it some time ago and I can now use it on my Android box without the dongle, which is super useful for in-home…

That’s why I said “up to a point”. I think there is a difference between things that aren’t affecting the gameplay, and those that do. To me, background effects, texture quality, game resolution, and to some extent, framerate, aren’t thing detracting me from the game experience and so aren’t so much a consideration…

Well, you know, I don’t think people playing games on the Switch cares that much about “performance”. Sure, games on PS4 or XB1 or PC “outperforms” those on the Switch, but that’s only relevant if someone really cares about those performance aspects (up to a point, of course).

I, for one, am happy about this re-release. Sure, I have it on PC, but most of the time I have to game is in the train ride everyday, so I’m perfectly fine with companies re-releasing games I haven’t finished or played on the Switch.

Your post gets back to the question I’ve been asking since Stadia’s been announced. Who is it for, really? I mean, sure, there will be people wanting to try this new thing (as there is with mostly any new thing), but I can’t really see a definite target market (that is large enough) for which a service like this makes…

They’re not really offering free trials. They’re more like “free trials that we’ll automatically bill to your account the day the trial ends because you forgot to spend 3 hours waiting on the phone to talk to an agent to cancel the automatic opt-in for full product”

Every console or platform launch get their fair share of problems, and Stadia is no exception. That being said...

As a designer working on a variety of projects myself, including web-based ones, I should know better than bash against some of the things that gives me money to feed my family. lol!

We sent people to the moon using computers that had 4K of RAM. Now we have laptop computers with 16GB of RAM or more that aren’t able to work on a spreadsheet without Excel freezing, crashing, or taking an eternity to load up for some reasons.

I don’t think game streaming is all bad either. I used it a couple of times, in a more “local” fashion, by streaming my Stream games from my PC to my TV (via my Nvidia Shield). Or streamed my Xbox One game session to my PC to let other people in the house watch something on TV.

This is one of the best post about Stadia I’ve seen in a while. And I agree with everything you mentionned.

Well, it’s cool to know there will be a season 2. Doesn’t prevent Netflix to pull the plug after the second season for whatever reason they think makes sense to them. Even if this second season ends on a cliffhanger. They just don’t care.

Here’s something I remember from “The Parachute” by Sinclair Dumontais :

Funny thing is I work in a marketing department, and I spend a lot of my time trying to tell people that, while numbers are fine sometimes, we still need to do things because we feel they are important, not because a spreadsheet says so. This is an everyday battle. Do something because you actually believe in it.…

Frankly, Netflix, despite its LOADS of annoyances, still does the job for me in providing me with a selection of stuff to watch, but I admit it wouldn’t take much to make me switch over to something else. That damn autoplay gets seriously on my nerves, and most importantly :

Ads is the primary thing people think of, but that’s suuuuuper yesterday.

...short term thinking dominates politics...

I agree with you on the exclusives point. Most gamers follow the games they feel they “need” to play. The whole industry kind of work on the “fear of missing out” concept, and we can’t really change this. That’s what drives companies to pay for exclusives, to draw all those people who will otherwise think they’ll be…

I think it’s pretty much this. Origin, like Uplay, tries to sell other games as well on their storefront. And with Epic being the new big arrogant elephant in the room, I think they saw their own service being more and more seen as “I only need this to play EA games and nothing else”. Which was already the case for…

One thing I’d like to happen is for when EA releases old games on Steam (that weren’t on Steam earlier - Like Mass Effect 3 or Sims 4) and instantly get more sales for those titles than the total sales they got on Origin since their release dates.