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Google Stadia Pro (4K/60, 5.1 surround) $9.99 a month. Stadia Base (1080/60) requires no subscription.
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everyone that's been talking about it, although if you buy your game on xcloud you will probably have an option to download it to your Xbox, that's just my guess on the download part
So how's that like Stadia? You get both a digital and streaming copy of the game, while you only get streaming for Stadia. Why would you get the Stadia version?
If you only use xcloud without a pc or Xbox then it's just like stadia
I'd imagine non game pass games will have to be brought like stadia but with the advantage if you then have an MS console you can use as a normal digital game.
Some reasons people might would choose the stadia version
Stadia might be cheaper than xcloud
Stadia might be stronger than xcloud
Stadia might have less latency than xcloud
Xcloud will have a significant advantage when it comes to game library due to Microsoft's first part offerings.
I hope that Stadia Base games having free online multiplayer put pressure on Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony to stop charging for that or offer a lot more substantial benefits with their subs.
It appears online play is free with the base version going by what they showed
Yeah that's what I'm saying. That's actually a great positive of Stadia and I could see myself buying multiplayer games from the service. Especially since my fears of Stadia lacking game preservation don't matter at that point since an online game would be useless on any platform after the servers were shut off.
being able to download it kinda defeats the purpose of streaming too, because if your able to download a game that means you already have the hardware needed to run it, so you would have no reason to stream it
Whole purpose of streaming is not having to buy hardware
Wait till you see XCloud and the next Gen consoles maybe?
Why would you pull the trigger on this when E3 is about to start? It's not like there going to sell out of cloud space is it lol
nope. you get two emails when you order, the first is just the google store order that shows the shipment info, lets you cancel the box, etc.
the second is a "Welcome to Stadia" email letting you know that you will get a redemption code in November for Stadia that lets you sub to Stadia Pro, gives you 3 months free, youhave one year to redeem your code, and presumably then you will pick your name. The free three months is tied to the email address you bought on, but you will also get a buddy pass that gives someone else 3 free months too.
So really if you know someone who is buying stadia at launch you can finangle the buddy code from them too and not have to buy anything to get your username I presume
The email also lists their twitter and subreddit to keep up
The buddy code does not ship until the service goes live for everybody in 2020
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The those concerned or making it a talking point that there won't be other mobile devices supported besides the Pixel 3/3a:
There will also be family sharing:
There will also be family sharing:
As a Destiny 2 player, Stadia does sound tempting to bring a laptop and grind my character when I wait for food at Panera or Starbucks but I wonder if it would allow some latency to play in rural areas. 720p is good enough to get some bounties done. Shame it isn't open to most new Android phones at launch since I have an Xperia ZX2. It stinks that Remote Play doesn't work over 4g. Only if Playstation Now would support Destiny 2: New Light and work over Android 4g,
I said I was going to wait for the free version, and that might still be what I do in the end, but right now I'm feeling like I want to try this thing as soon as possible. I might preorder in the next month or two if it's still available. So excited. I hope it works well enough.
Stadia doesn't run PC games. Devs have to port their games to Stadia. Probably the highest settings but I think it depends on the game/devs.
Think of Stadia like a new next-gen game console. It has its own dev kit hardware, games have to be ported to it. The Assassin's Creed streaming demo for example was ported from the console code base, not PC (though it used higher quality textures and further draw distance and stuff). Stadia runs Linux and uses the Vulkan graphics library, as opposed to PC running Windows and using DirectX or OpenGL.
So, the game settings are whatever the developer wants them to be. Since they have a dev kit and the "hardware" is the same for everybody, they know what settings they can use to get the best possible look to the game, same as any game console, though with Stadia they do have the option (should they choose) to use more than one GPU.
Do you guys think that if you get the founder's edition, your buddy will also get access to a Founders Name ? Because they too would basically create their username before most?
Why do people keep saying this?
Stadia itself is scalable in the future because the tech can be stacked but I saw no indication a developer could just "choose" to use way more power if they want to.
That type of scaling will be used to upgrade Stadia in the future or offer a higher tier more costly service not let devs just decide on their own their game is going to be twice as expensive for Google to render.
Unless someone can correct me on where Google said it was up to devs, which would just be bizarre.
I don't think we know. I agree that it is unlikely precisely because of costs, especially for third party partners.
If I pre order this can I change my payment information later? Because my card is about to expire
I have the same issue. My order has a button to allow me to change payment information, so I'm hoping I can do that when the time comes.
Ok if I'm reading this correctly this might be huge.
They say you can make Stadia purchases on iOS. That means they must have worked out some pricing scheme with Apple, because otherwise Apple would be taking a 30% cut which would effectively completely wipe out Google's profit margin. That means the most difficult roadblock in place for Stadia to come to iOS has been eliminated. We'll see Stadia on iOS sooner rather than later.
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You can.
I've been looking for this too
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i need to read up on this some more, but if i can play this on my current computer and have fun playing multiplayer games with my brother, then... that makes buying a gaming PC redundant because I literally only need to update my PC for games.
Have they said when they will add ads to the base version? Would be glorious if even the paid subscription had ads ... It's what makes Google money at the end.
They will take 30% like every other store for sure and dont need ads for Stadia Base.
I was too... until I realized that I'd have to wait two months to play Shadowkeep.
Oh, yeah, I'd still be playing on PS4 until then Stadia. Haha.
Will destiny 2 run at 60 fps and have extended POV on stadia??
If so, day one.
Also, they need to implement X play because if they don't I feel stadia won't have a good player base. At the beginning of coarse .
If so, day one.
Also, they need to implement X play because if they don't I feel stadia won't have a good player base. At the beginning of coarse .
I really hate touch controls but did they ever say if they would have touch controls on phones for when you don't have a controller with you?
Except every minute you play a game on the service costs them money. Hence why there is a $9.99 fee for Pro.
We have no clue what other ways Google might try to make money from users; and in the end they probably aren't 100% sure. I'd expect ads to be at least a part of their internal conversations.
Phil Harrison: "The fundamental benefit of our cloud native infrastructure is that developers will be able to take advantage of hardware and power in ways never before possible. And that includes taking of advantage of the power of multiple GPUs at once."
This is supposed to be one of fundamental benefits of cloud computing, the ability to scale your compute resources as the task demands, so I don't see why this would be so surprising.
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