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it's been exactly one month since stadia
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debuted and when it did come out we made
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a video just about a day after using it
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and a lot of things have changed in that
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amount of time since the day it debuted
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to this point now where we are and
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there's a lot of things that are gonna
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change in the next few months and so
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we're not ready to really do a full
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review of stadia because all of stadia
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that was promised isn't available yet
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but we want to give you some thoughts
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after using it for exactly a month
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let's first talk about a couple of the
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hiccups that started at launch and
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things that were expected to be there
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that weren't there and have been fixed
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since one of those was latency and we
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reported on that with our initial video
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and in some articles that we were
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running into issue with latency only on
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the chromecast when using the controller
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and we got some feedback with that and
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come to find out it basically is just a
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TV setting for a lot of TVs that have
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gaming mode on them and without that
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turned on there's some general latency
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between the HDMI port and the screen
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once you turn gaming mode on that goes
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away and that was really never on Google
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but now that more people know about this
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most people aren't really complaining
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about latency with the controller or on
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a console or on a desktop or anything on
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the phone latency just really hasn't
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been an issue at all next up or the
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buddy passes so these things were
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promised again for day one and we didn't
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have them and after a few days we
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finally got our first buddy pass and
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then Google's turned around and even
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issued a second buddy pass for founder's
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Edition users and so they've not only
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fixed the issue they've actually made it
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a little bit sweeter so now we all have
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a second friend that we can invite for
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an extra three month full trial of the
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pro version of Stadium on top of fixing
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those issues that were there
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they've also rolled out quite a few of
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the features that were again promised
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and not delivered on launch day so
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Google assistant is now along for the
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ride it's it's a little bit limited but
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you can do a handful if they
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like launch games and ask about the
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weather from your stadia controller
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additionally users with chromecast
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ultras that weren't shipped with the
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stadia package now have a firmware
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they can play stadia as long as they
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have a controller they can play stadia
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on their chromecast with the original
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chromecast ultras google has
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additionally gone above and beyond what
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they promised they had said they were
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going to be one game per month for pro
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users to use and claim for free and now
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we're up to four already in the
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beginning of December so they've kind of
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added on to what they initially said
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they were gonna do and there's four
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total games for pro users finally Google
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has delivered on one of the features
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that they promised four stadia back when
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they announced it that is stream connect
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and it's just the ability to see
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multiple screens from multiple players
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all on the screen at one time so think
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about Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
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breakpoint and being able to see all of
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your teammates screens all on your
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screen all at the same time so you can
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see their perspectives it's stuff that
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you can't do on normal consoles or
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normal computers but stadia because of
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cloud computing can leverage this and do
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it really well now that we have all that
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out of the way all of features that have
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been added and all the new stuff that's
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shown up and all the things that have
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been fixed I still think there's a ton
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of other features that are gonna be
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added like gamestate saving and so you
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know people being able to live stream 4k
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on YouTube and all those things that
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stadia promises that only stadia really
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is going to be able to deliver on that
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are gonna come in the next few months
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those things all sound great and that's
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all exciting but right now what's it
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like to play stadia what's it like to
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actually sit down and use this as a
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console as my platform is the thing that
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I play - or play games on for me it's
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been kind of enlightening and what it's
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helped me realize is that I'm not really
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that hardcore of a gamer in general and
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that's probably good news for people
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that make stadia because I don't think
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stadia is really aimed at hardcore
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competitive gamers I think it's aimed at
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people like myself like people around
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our office who play games but they're
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not playing games for hours and hours on
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end because games have gotten so complex
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and so intricate and so difficult to be
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honest with you that I find myself a
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little overwhelmed by all of it but the
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cool part is I'm not sitting around and
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thinking about how stadia works
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I'm not sitting there thinking about
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well did the thing move when I moved my
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I get this thing to start up or can I
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play it on this or can I play it on that
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or what hardware do I need to have I
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don't have to think about any of those
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things when I go to sit down and play a
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game on stadia instead all I'm thinking
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about is how bad I am at most games how
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bad I am at destiny and how I'm never
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probably gonna be very good at all
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because I just don't have the time to
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dedicate to it and I think that's a
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testament to where stadia is right now
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in general underneath all the features
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and underneath the game announcements
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and underneath all that stuff stadia is
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a platform that does work and I think
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you'll see that across anybody whether
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the reviews are good or bad and whether
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we say it's in beta or whatever the case
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at this point right now the truth is
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stadia in general works they deliver on
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the promise of cloud streaming cloud
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gaming in this platform that exists
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elsewhere and when you get down to
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gaming when you actually sit down to
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play you completely lose the fact that
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that's happening and I think that's
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almost magic feeling it is something
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that when I realize what's happening
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when I realize what's going on behind
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the controller or behind the keyboard
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I keep getting blown away by on a
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regular basis because it doesn't make
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sense that on a couple hundred dollar
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Chromebook I'm playing Ghost Recon break
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point and it looks the way that it does
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it just doesn't even make any sense and
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yet I keep finding myself not even
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caring that it's doing whatever it's
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doing in the cloud or how they're able
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to make this all work I just know that
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it's working and I click the button I
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play the game yesterday when Ghost Recon
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came out I was able to go to the store
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and look and see it click it purchase it
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hit play and start playing immediately
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and it was such a cool experience and
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overall for me as a casual gamer that
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has been probably the biggest win here
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I'm excited about all the features that
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are coming I'm excited about new titles
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coming like pub G and fortnight I'm
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excited about all of those things and
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all the promises stadia is made but for
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right now what I'm most encouraged by is
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the fact that stadia does work and it's
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fun to play and it's fun to use and I
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believe that when we get to the point
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where stadia base launches in February
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as long as we have more titles and
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people stick around and people keep
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coming to play stadia is delivering on
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the promise of cloud gaming without
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latency and I think the sky's kind of
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the limit with this thing as long as
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they keep pushing titles out keep
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pushing features out and
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attracting new players but guys that's
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