I would really like to do 2005, it'd be fun to do one from that era that we haven't touched yet.

I think they didn’t talk pricing for two reasons. One, they can be very flexible, especially with the infrastructure Stadia gives you. Suddenly you can have trailers that offer you the first 2 hours right now for £10, taken off the total price if you choose to purchase. Suddenly you have an ad based service for certain games where you just watch an ad every 20 minutes and get to play for free.

Announcing costing would work against the objective of this conference, which is to get publishers and devs talking with Stadia where among other things, they can discuss what pricing models they would and wouldn’t be willing to have for their games.

@bard91 Because it's Google, they basically have the power to simplify the route to and from the hardware actually running your game. Less exchanges, more nodes, lots of data centers. This should bring the latency down.

I actually just watched a Digital Foundry video with some hands on impressions and tests.

They found that they had exactly the same response time as with an Xbox One X locally, although that "was on a Google connection so not a controlled evironment".

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I also discovered in the above video that you can connect the controller to the PC if you want (how else is it going to charge for one thing) although the WiFi thing is a very cool idea, although they sort of don't have a choice given the whole "work with any device that can run chrome" thing.

Not easily. Save games are linked to the account that made them, so you’d have to find a way to edit the save you got from the other person, put your ID that is unique to you (this is not your Gamertag) where the other persons was, and then transfer that save to your Xbox One.

Honestly, GTAVs singleplayer story is incredible, I cherished the opportunity to play it again, so just play it! It’s a lot less effort!

So it is the leaked concept art we saw a couple of months ago. It’s not terrible, need to see it animated though.

@dmcmaster I guarantee they moved it to DLC, free or otherwise. It’s a gameplay mechanic that’s begging for a headline and anyone that really wants it will probably pay for it.

@ffff0 @Axel Seconded, it might be a good opportunity for you to plug it for non-forum regulars, explain how it works in more detail and what you do to organise it, explain how you do 2 every year, one for the year past and a retro one.

It's sort of what Community Showcase is for, I think :)

@tokyoslim I always reply to my own post on long comments but it’s definitely not foolproof

This forum is active enough, and definitely the best place to interact with the community outside of Twitch chat.

Loved the punchline, it had me in giggles, I thought the main body of the video was a bit meh.