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The DEATH of Cloud Gaming - WAN Show February 5, 2021

The WAN Show

Linus Tech Tips

Tech News, News Commentary, News

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Start your build today at https://www.buildredux.com/linus Save 10% at Ridge Wallet with offer code LINUS at https://www.ridge.com/Linus Honey automatically applies the best coupon codes to save you money at different online checkouts, try it now at https://www.joinhoney.com/linus Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of MattDog_222) 0:00 Intro with Google Stadia changing  1:49 Luke's take about Stadia 3:34 Linus's problem with what Google was doing 4:56 Talking about acquisition opportunities 6:38 Linus: The bigger problem with Stadia 8:24 One of the holy grail's of gaming: Fully destructible environments 9:50 Linus's prison escape simulator game idea 11:02 Game called "Teardown" discussion 11:53 The core idea of cloud gaming + Google lacking patience 13:26 Google's confusing mindset hypothetical example 14:22 Everyone knows games take a long time to develop (except Google) 16:05 GeForce Now has reached 6 Million members 16:48 Luke: Nvidia & Microsoft have good approaches 17:45 Xbox Series X example 18:40 Comparing to Nintendo Wii/Switch controller/accessory costs 19:59 Luke singing the song again + Linus trying to censor it live 20:26 Nvidia requiring companies to be transparent about RTX3000 specifications 21:57 Linus calling one of the writers about RTX3000 spec requirement 23:02 TDP not making much difference, but boost clocks are 25:01 Currently don't know much about the 80W vs. 150W (price, power usage, performance) 26:40 Luke enjoys Nvidia shooting themselves in the foot 27:44 What Linus thinks Nvidia needs (Intel like naming approach) 28:32 Is Linus still holding GME (Gamestop) stocks? (skip to 42:24) 29:05 Sponsor: Build Redux 30:28 Sponsor: Ridge Wallet 31:13 Sponsor: Honey 31:57 Luke tells us a story from his mom 34:18 Comparing old and current YouTube comments 36:23 Other people responding to comments for you 37:33 (Rumor) Apple VR Headset could cost $3,000 39:22 Linus worried about Apple's approach + How it might impact VR market 40:27 The Valve Index's VR problems comparison 42:24 Linus GME (Gamestop) stock update 44:34 (Floatplane chat) GPD video question 44:57 How Yvonne (wife) handled the GME stocks 47:28 Not LTT Store 48:14 LTTStore.com (New scarves) 49:54 Valve fined $4,000,000 on Steam controller 52:10 Linus: Gaming patents shouldn't last as long 54:18 NZXT Apologizes for safety issue on H1 case 56:30 Superchats 59:46 Linus's lifetime investments summary 1:02:17 Conclusion 1:02:41 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and studios being closed.

0:01.8

So this was, I mean, this was everywhere in the gaming news.

0:06.2

So ours, Kataku, Gamasutra.

0:11.0

That is an amazing name for a website, by the way.

0:14.0

Everyone's reporting on this.

0:15.5

Google Stadia, Google's Game Streaming Service

0:18.2

that allows people to play modern games

0:20.1

without a powerful PC, if you somehow

0:22.4

hadn't heard of it, is changing the direction of its business.

0:26.4

You know, the thing that's most kind of unbelievable

0:30.7

about this to me, Luke, is Google taking a service

0:34.3

that they just introduced and dramatically altering course.

0:38.0

Yeah, or potentially just killing it off entirely.

0:40.7

Like I'm getting whiplash here, you know?

0:45.2

So Google is canceling multiple projects,

0:47.5

basically all of the games that it had

0:49.6

slated for release beyond 2021.

0:52.2

Game studios in Montreal and LA will close,

0:55.3

impacting about 150 developers,

0:57.8

the company will apparently try to find

0:59.4

the new roles at Google, though.

1:01.6

And they will now offer their Stadia Tech

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