{"id":176666,"date":"2019-11-21T00:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1811302\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T00:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:15:19","slug":"google-stadias-launch-seems-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/21\/google-stadias-launch-seems-soft\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Stadia\u2019s Launch Seems Soft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/google-stadia-logo-top-650x366.png?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>Google Stadia launched this week\u2026 well, kind of. Yes, it\u2019s technically true you can now pay real money for Google\u2019s ambitious video game streaming platform. But between the latency issues, limited software library, and various other restrictions, right now Stadia feels like an early access beta rather than a fully finished product. In our in-depth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/review-google-stadia-just-isnt-finished-yet-1810564\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Google Stadia review<\/a>, we recommend you hold off on buying it for now. Many other critics felt similarly.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems like customers have been taking that advice. While it\u2019s all very anecdotal for now (the product literally launched yesterday) it sounds like Google Stadia sales are looking pretty soft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Kotaku\u2019s<\/a> Jason Schreier has a pretty stellar track record when it comes to reporting insider games industry news. So while this is technically speculation, when he says something we tend to believe it. And on Stadia\u2019s launch day he was already out here saying Stadia was a \u201cmonumental flop\u201d with pre-order numbers \u201cbelow expectations.\u201d Pre-order numbers are a metric Google could track even before launch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I don\u2019t think Google is going to give up on Stadia that quickly \u2014 they\u2019re building multiple game studios as we speak \u2014 but it was always asinine to think they could sell games at full price on this thing. Need to pivot, even if it means losing some of the biggest AAA games<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonschreier\/status\/1196770278652751872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is why Stadia\u2019s launch lineup doubled overnight? We\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/why-were-skeptical-of-google-stadias-gaming-future-1779294\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">skeptical<\/a> of the service from the beginning, and like I said our review ended up confirming many of those suspicions. But don\u2019t expect Google to just completely drop Stadia quite yet. Cheaper and potentially more appealing versions of the service are on tap for next year, along with just more games. And really console launches are rarely great. Still, if Stadia does get sent to the Google Graveyard eventually, we wouldn\u2019t be surprised.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kDKFDDP8o-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/google-stadia-logo-top-650x366.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/figure>\n<p>Google Stadia launched this week&hellip; well, kind of. Yes, it&rsquo;s technically true you can now pay real money for Google&rsquo;s ambitious video game streaming platform. But between the latency issues, limited software library, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/google-stadias-launch-seems-soft-1811302\/\">Google Stadia&rsquo;s Launch Seems Soft<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/21\/google-stadias-launch-seems-soft\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","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":[2054,2086,5564,2,2047,3920,2077,7],"tags":[364,398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,372,396,403,412,374,411,395,371,405,404,366],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-JXs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176669,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176666\/revisions\/176669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}