Well, I'll put it this way: last year, I started having a few issues that still haven't been resolved with Chrome. It affects the two computers I normally use, but not in the same ways (images won't display, websites don't load 100%, hotkeys stop functioning, AdBlock will randomly suspend, bookmarks are not saving properly or are being overwritten by other people's bookmarks from other accounts on my PC, etc.) Google support has not been able to do anything to resolve it. It still "works", but it's dysfunctional in odd places. They assure me it is not anything with my account, but they can't offer any solution or explain what may have happened. (I've been using Firefox almost exclusively for the past year to get around it.)
Small issues, truly, but these are things going wrong with just the browser itself. Now, they're going to create a universal, real-time, online-only, server-based system that not only hosts and markets games, but actually runs them for every person in the world that happens to be playing it at that point. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great idea, and I do think it will eventually work.
But, I don't think it's going to have issues at the beginning -- I think it's going to be a small disaster that has massive problems for years after it's released.
I think the major factor will be bandwidth. The fibre-optic "hubs" with direct connections to the Stadia servers is a great idea. But how people connect to those hubs is still going to be limited by a whole spectrum of different hardware with different performance. I know that the games will inherently "stream"...but there will still be a need to send packages back and forth for things like input commands, dynamic sounds, multiplayer sync. When I think of how often I experience problems with even long-established streaming sites like YouTube or Twitch, I can only take my hat off to Google for even attempting something like this on modern hardware.
But, gotta start somewhere!
Any computer problems are frustrating as hell
But what you can do, if what they say is true is to make a gaming computer. Meaning a very poor and cheap one with only windows and chrome running on it. What could go wrong?
I just got a 100 mbit connection so im ready for anything.....hopefully.. (But then again internet is rather cheap where I live
) but yeah connections and stuff that you wont be able to control will be a problem, but on the other hand, this technology could accelerate online development as other companies or Google might expand into new areas other than gaming that could use a lot of computer power.One thing however that is going to be interesting, if we run with the idea, that everything that Google have said is going to work perfectly with no flaws what so ever!!. Is how the computer hardware industry will react to this, for instant most people need disk space for games or images/videos. A person not using any of those things, really don't need a huge harddisk. And if people don't need powerful computers to run games anymore, it could change the industry quite a lot I think. Maybe even more than expected.
My computer is about 6-7 years old I think, so its a zombie compared to what you can get now. And the only reason I would get a new one is due to making 3D and games. But since I can make 3D with it, despite it being a bit slow and it could benefit a lot from a powerful computer there is only games left. So if I only played on it, I honestly can't see any reason why I would go out and buy a new one? Everything else like browsing, movies, music etc. runs perfectly fine. And even most games I care to play, doesn't require a much faster computer. So Stadia would completely remove any desire I would have to buy a new one, if I only played on it.
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