Igår utannonserade Google som bekant sin speltjänst Stadia, och nu har Kotaku pratat med Stadia-chefen Phil Harrison för att prata lite om eventuella problem och vad som egentligen krävs för att kunna spela. Harrison sade:
"We were able to test a lot of this with our Project Stream test late last year, starting back in October. To get 1080p, 60 frames-per-second, required approximately 25 megabits per second. In fact, we use less than that, but that's where we put our recommended limit at. But with innovations that we've made on the streamer side and on the compression side since then, when we launch, we will be able to get to 4K but only raise that bandwidth to about 30 megabits per second. So if you have less bandwidth, we'll give you a lower resolution... We do a lot of that for you in the background, and we will only offer up the appropriate bandwidth for the infrastructure that you have."
Vi får även veta att det krävs Chromecast för att kunna spela på en TV och att du då behöver en Stadia-handkontroll. Till PC kommer du däremot kunna använda valfri handkontroll. När det kommer till ambitionsnivån och folks oro att det bara blir ett nytt Google Plus av allt, säger Harrison:
"I understand the concern. But I think that all you have to do is look at the level of investment that we have made and continue to make in Stadia. This is not a trivial project by any means. This is a very, very significant cross-company effort that isn't just my team, but it's also across Youtube, it's across our technical infrastructure and networking team. It represents thousands of people who are working on this business."
Priser ville han däremot inte snacka om ännu utan sade att "we will talk in great detail about that in the summer". Om det betyder på E3 eller ett separat event återstår dock att se.
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