Quoting: STiATI personally don't see developers going through the hassle natively supporting linux if they can utilize Stadia. If it succeeds.

That's not a good thing. I'm not really interested in browser games limited by bandwidth and latency, that can't even be backed up, when I already have good enough hardware to run them at full performance directly. Let's hope it won't be too difficult for developers to make desktop versions from Stadia ones.

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Quoting: subDidn't many people say NVidia will provide some open-source driver (not necessarily opening the current blob) when there is strong demand by the industry - not Joe user like you and me, ofc?

So are we there yet? :)

That can actually be the breaking point for them indeed. Time will tell.

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Quoting: ShabbyXDisclaimer: I work at Google (though not on Stadia), previously Eidos Montreal (Shadow of the Tomb Raider).

Games running on Stadia are primarily native. Yeap, engines you never dreamed would support Linux, now do thanks to Google.

As Stadia has its own SDK, porting from Stadia to Desktop means adding SDL support and supporting the desktop swapchains. Personally, I think the biggest hurdle with desktop support would be testing and bug fixing, as with Stadia the game is really just tested on AMD. That said, as a desktop Linux gamer myself, I'm certainly hoping this would help get us more AAA games. :) If nothing, all the open source work means better mesa, faster kernel, more advanced profilers etc which are all good for our cause.

Very interesting point about SDL, thanks. For Stadia it indeed makes sense to have its own way of handling input then producing a video stream. Hopefully it won't be very difficult for developers to provide alternatives to Stadia SDK for the desktop case. May be SDL developers can collaborate with Google to make this easier.

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Quoting: subI love it how AMD managed to get the design win for this again. :)
There must be some technical reason behind it, I guess.

Otherwise, NVidia would have surely just outbid AMD to get finally
back into the console-a-like AAA business again.

That's easy I think. Google want to be free to use the graphics stack commercially. I'm not sure Nvidia blob allows that without licensing from Nvidia. Though they probably partnered with AMD anyway in some form to benefit both sides (like getting driver support and so on). But at least they are paying for support which is a normal method for FOSS, not for the right to use.

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Quoting: chancho_zombiethe word is a wink to stadium?? uh ? so maybe they will focus on multiplayer :huh:

I suppose. Stadia is Latin plural for stadium.

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Quoting: DuncOf course, if this takes off, they might stop releasing them altogether.

Some might, especially the common DRM freaks. Others not. Why should they lose profit opportunities by skipping other popular stores like Steam, GOG and etc.?

I.e. imagine someone like CD Projekt Red releasing their Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia. They'll likely release it for Linux on GOG and Steam as well in such case.

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Quoting: x_wingWhen I read this

They also had id Software, talk about how it didn't take long to bring the new Doom Eternal to Stadia...

I was expecting that this phrase ended with: "We just had to install wine/proton.".

That's actually something I was waiting for them to confirm. It's natural to expect them to use Wine and its ecosystem to boost their catalog beyond native titles. Did they mention anything about that?

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I'm not going to buy games from such services (it's like DRM cubed), but the fact that they are pushing Linux and Vulkan is a big boon for Linux gamers, since more engines and studios will support Linux, and if willing, will release their Linux games DRM-free as well.

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It's been a while, still no Linux release on GOG. This starts looking like a problem.

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Quoting: F.UltraI assume here that it's part of the 30% cut so if they would open this to any one then a dev who only publishes on GOG or the Epic store would utilize these nodes for free. Not that this would be a bad thing but I understand if Valve is not interested in it.

I'd rather guess, if they open it to everyone, developers will pay them some fee for it, to be able to use however they want. Like it's with any cloud service like OpenShift, GCP, AWS and what not.

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