Google Stadia Details -- Games, Price, Release Date, Founder's Edition

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"Users will be able to buy and keep games..."

Until Google decides to pull the plug.

Stadia Base will probably bring a decent consumer base to the service. It´s a free high end PC at 1080p 60 FPS. Good enough for many people. But that is how they want to convince you into getting on board of cloud gaming.

I don´t want a future of cloud gaming services because I know where that will end up going.

Cloud gaming will just raise the prices for consumers:

We have seen it already with Netflix price increases, Internet providers price increases and so on.

In a cloud gaming future, publishers will gain more profits because consumers won't be able to resell games. There will be no piracy. And no ownership of content by consumers. You will just pay for access to a game in a specific service.

In turn, console makers will become cloud service providers. That model is much better for them.

The consumer will never own the console or PC. You will forever pay to access your games.

An example. By the time the PS5 is released, the PS4 will be about 8 years old. At launch, the PS4 cost $400.

Meaning that someone that has been playing on the PS4 since release only payed $4 a month if the PS4 was a subscription service.

By contrast, if you played on Stradia for 8 years, you would have payed $960.

And that's just the start. Cloud service providers will control your experience.

The 4K 60 FPS tier that costs $10 on Stradia will just become the base service. They could create a new tier to access 8K 60 FPS. That will cost $20. No one is going to give you a hardware upgrade for free.

And by the way. Nothing is stopping them from increasing their 4K 60 FPS tier price. Netflix and almost all online services have become more expensive as their consumer base has grown. And the excuse is simple.

Microsoft, Sony, Google will just justify their subscription price increase on their investment in new exclusive content or a better more stable service and so on.

Cloud gaming is great in theory. It´s great to be able to play anywhere.
But the business model that supports it is simply not consumer friendly.

For full size controllers the buttons seem tiny.....

Actually if you have bad internet it's because your not American and this site's American.

Anyways I can see Google really dividing YouTube into sections in the near future like Netflix or twitch. The only difference is the entire YouTube API will be segmented behind individual paywalls. Another reason why stadia exists so Google can easily bring you to the market with lil compromise, where buying hardware and Google's future announced subscription complete service, just allows younger generations to continue the legacy of consoles are old school and a waste of money.

It's the generation gap that dictates the future of trends, like old people and election of done right.

I can't believe so many of you are complaining about bad internet in 2019...

I live in a tiny city (Trois-Rivieres) in Quebec, Canada where ± 150 000 ppl live and we get 300Mbps/500mbps/Gigabit Internet relatively cheap from Bell (Fibe), Cogeco or Videotron (Cable)...

How could it be that so many Americans/Canadians still can't access a fast reliable internet acces at home in 2019?

I tought US was "The shit" and we, up north, were lacking and late technologically speaking...

Why would anyone pay $10 a month to just buy a game that you might be able to run at 4K? Just buy a Console and call it a day.

It sucks that I'm wayyyyy too picky and finicky on the games that I like to play for any game services to be interesting.
Same goes for movies/TV shows/Series.

I gave Netflix 3-4 tries in the past 5 years and every single time, I didn't hold on to it for more than a month!
Most of its content was "Meh..." to me!

Same goes with these 30 launch titles on stadia.
I know it's just the beginning of it and it'll grow considerably but to be honest, there's NO games at all from this library I'd play!

Gaming is a hobby and my spare time I can spend doing it is precious to me so when I do game, I wanna play games that I WANT to play and not some games I'm told I should play based on whatever criteria.

I like the controller design, at any rate. Nice to see someone else doing symmetrical analog sticks.

The rest of it is a big 'meh' for me, but I'd be willing to try it at least.

I live in rural central Florida with a giant alligator named Bubba who likes to roam around the lake. Good luck trying to get Stadia working at my place. Silicon Valley where Google is HQ must have great internet speeds for them to think cloud streaming is a good idea

No interest in this from me. The only thing that makes me nervous is this

Unannounced games from Capcom, EA, and Rockstar

nobody told Google that the vast majority US's network infrastructure is too shitty for 4k60 streaming?

If you can pay good internet to sustain a good gaming sessions without hiccups with this, will the convenient price of stadia hardware really matter? I'm inclined to think this kind of customer exists, anyway.