Google clearly know the above, so I assume they aren't planning to drop it because of their own approach, that would be weird. Though given their past history, anything can happen.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis is all no doubt true but I'm not sure how much it matters to the average prospective customer.

I'm talking about Google. For customer it means there will be games on Stadia that aren't possible to run on Geforce Now. That alone is already a differentiator that will bring them users.

My point is, they aren't really competing 1:1, so I don't buy the argument that Google are doing something wrong in comparison with other stream services or they are behind them. They are actually ahead and they are doing something different.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleThe NVidia option lets you play way more games than Stadia does. Of all the options, Stadia is the weakest.

That doesn't matter. They simply offer you a VM where you can play your Windows games (which you already bought on Steam and such). Google offer something different - a platform to make new games. I'd say Nvidia isn't even a competitor, they are a different category service. The only comparable thing I see is something like Amazon's Lumberyard backend (not Lumberyard itself). Amazon just need to tune it for running actual rendering on the server.

The difference is important. I.e. Stadia allows making games that can't run on a desktop, they need server infrastructure. Nvidia doesn't offer that and it doesn't look like they plan to.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleSadly for them, I think Stadia have already lost the cloud gaming war.

Why would they? They have more expertise than other cloud gaming providers. Nvidia is nowhere a competitor to Google in this sense, not even close. And Nvidia aren't even trying to compete with them in the sense of offering games. They simply offer cloud VMs (Windows only for that matter). So it's a different service in a sense.

Google actually enable multiplayer games that are based on their platform. Nvidia doesn't have anything like that. I'd say Google's main competitor in this sense is Amazon, not Nvidia.

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We should make a wiki somewhere, for games that came out for desktop Linux due to coming to Stadia first. That's really the main interest in Stadia for me for now.

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It's an expansion with a major version update for the base game, which includes bug fixes and etc.

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They have their own engine and are using Vulkan by the way.

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Yeah, I know that there is a removal of stats for not updated accounts. Some put the info in once and don't update. But general downwards trend means that the number of people who are actually updating them regularly is going down. Or may be the number of new users who fill in the info is going down. That's what I was wondering about.

The extra privacy feature just adds another variable to this.

May be you can make stats for these metrics:

1. Number of people who updated their info in the last month (or confirmed that their configuration didn't change).
2. Number of new users who filled in the info.

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I wonder more not about the small overall number of stats survey entries, but about that it's gradually dropping. That doesn't correspond to the trend of overall number of visitors increasing. So something must be going on.

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Not sure what problem they are having with the Debian base. It's pretty solid and allows easy customization.

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