{"id":10000,"date":"2019-11-19T08:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=10000"},"modified":"2019-11-19T08:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:27:54","slug":"google-stadia-launches-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/google-stadia-launches-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Stadia\u00a0launches in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10001\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10001\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/27124008\/akrales_191113_3779_0284-1.jpg\" alt=\"Google Stadia controller and laptop\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s no reason anyone should buy into Stadia right now. [&#8230;] partly by underdelivering at launch and partly with a pricing scheme that sees you paying three times (for hardware, for the service, for games)&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Launches to lack-lustre reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Yes it actually works (unlike previous attempts)<br \/>\nYes it&#8217;s the future of gaming as a service (probably).<br \/>\nYes it&#8217;s cool that you can play any of the available games on any device.<\/p>\n<p>BUT<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t work over LTE at all.<br \/>\nIt has a pricing scheme that makes no sense ($130 to buy in, $10\/m + $60 each game).<br \/>\n4K is a pipe dream<br \/>\nAustralia wont see this for years (if the service even lasts that long)<br \/>\nYou burn 20GB\/hr in data transfers playing in normal quality, ISP plans don&#8217;t cater for that.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/11\/18\/20970297\/google-stadia-review-gaming-streaming-cloud-price-specs-features-chrome-pixel\">Google Stadia\u00a0review: the best of cloud gaming is still just a beta &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no reason anyone should buy into Stadia right now. [&#8230;] partly by underdelivering at launch and partly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[193,183,1461,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10004,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions\/10004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}