Thread by @dsmart

As a legacy tier 1 dev, marketing statements like this make me roll my eyes while yawning. As a gamer they make me lol so hard. "negative latency" <--- 😂😂😂😂

Google Stadia will be “faster and more responsive” than local gaming hardware pcgamesn.com/stadia/negativ…

"This term describes a buffer of predicted latency, inherent to a Stadia players setup or connection, in which the Stadia system will run lag mitigation. This can include increasing fps rapidly to reduce latency between player input and display, or even predicting user inputs"😂

It's all pure and complete nonsense. All of it. For DECADES those of us who have developed engines - especially for multiplayer games - have battled this demon locally. It's a war we can't win since we stand ZERO chance of breaking the light speed barrier.

These aren't issues when streaming non-interactive media (movies, music etc); but when it comes to processing user input, especially in twitch based games, you factor in prediction - then it all falls apart.

I dunno maybe they've got some alien tech we don't know about yet.

The experience of playing adventure, turn based or 'static entity' games is going to be different and similar to streaming movies and songs. But for anything else it's going to be a tenuous proposition. That they're claiming better performance than local is clown shoes nuts.