David Hess (davidwhess.delete@this.gmail.com) on April 20, 2019 7:17 pm wrote:
> Anon (no.delete@this.thanks.com) on April 17, 2019 1:20 am wrote:
> > (Sorry, forgot to put this on the end of my post.)
> >
> > More importantly, they need to compete with game streaming services. A big selling point of
> > Google Stadia is that the game starts "instantly" (because a server somewhere already has it
> > in RAM)- that makes long loading times a genuine competitive disadvantage for consoles.
>
> I laughed at the numbers Google gave for Stadia. Just the latency of my local cable ISP is greater
> so no matter how low of a latency they have, it is already too great. Their requirements make no
> sense for most of their potential customers and there is no indication that things will improve.
>
> The only time I had the latency they estimated was when I had SDSL and that
> was long ago. I would get it again accept it is no longer available.

Many casualish gamers aren't that picky about latency. Whether or not the market for non-picky ones is large enough (after one discards the people whose Internet connection is just not good enough) is another question, but never underestimate the amount of crap people are ready to tolerate in the name of convenience.

-JLarja