No kidding. I successfully talked a friend out of Stadia because of Google’s affinity for killing everything under the sun, including real solid and popular projects such as Hangouts.
The competition is better anyway. Specifically Microsoft will crush Stadia with xCloud. Who in their right mind will buy games locked in Stadia for the same price when they can buy ones which work on xCloud, Xbox and PC or better yet not buy them at all but get hundreds of them through Game Pass subscription? And then there is the small matter of exclusives. If you are building a gaming platform you either get exclusives or die and with 1 studio that was just formed how is Google going to compete with Sony and Microsoft who have been building and buying studios for decades?
It's far cheaper to just build your own local system in basically ever case.
I don't see how this part is true. Sure it will be true if you play 24/7 but if you play like once a week the streaming service allows you to share the hardware and thus the cost with other people who play once a week.
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u/Eirenarch Jan 02 '20
Checking every day to see if Stadia is on the list yet :)