Completely left my mind that I made this thread around ten days ago. The other Stadia threads reminded me of this and I wanted to check it out. While it's not an old thread, I would like to respond back to some posts that I missed!
I'm not even gonna read this post. Is Stadia your child or something? What's to be "concerned" about? It's a gaming platform, if you don't like it, don't use it, nothing will be lost.
I just think Google is doing a poor job at marketing this, and there's a lot to be worried about with the future of this device. I think if Google launched in 2020, with no paid founder's edition beta, with some killer first party titles, there would be much more interest. Also, if datacaps weren't a worry, I would be interested into checking out Stadia. I would prefer to play games at 4K60fps with HDR. If I did that, I would eat into my datacap, let alone, use up data that the rest of my family uses.
If youre disinterested why would you give a shit?
Unless you mean you WANT it to succeed but dont think it will
Also this isnt controversial.
I give no fucks for it and i see it dead in a year.
If im wrong im wrong and it at best becomes a backup option for some people
Ultimately, it would be great for Stadia to succeed. More competition is a good thing! Even if I was disinterested, if Google could prove me wrong with some killer exclusives, that would be great. Gaming is my hobby, but right now, there aren't any appealing games that I can't get anywhere else.
This is actually probably going to happen and is the real reason to be concerned. 10-15 years from now we'll very likely no longer have physical hardware for games except for PC's.
I think physical games will remain for quite awhile. Though, I am not against 100% digital titles. In fact, 98% of my PS4 and Switch library is digital. I prefer to just launch straight into my games. Of course, I understand the appeal of physical media. It's fun to borrow, trade or rent games.
My only concern is no exclusive game because that's the only reason I'd pick up a couple months of a streaming service.
Right now, other than the few exclusives I listed in my first post, I don't see the appeal of Stadia when I own a PS4 or Switch. Even when nextgen consoles come out, I would prefer to put $400-500 down on a PS5 other than paying $60 to stream the game on Stadia. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are very reputable and put out amazing, high quality exclusive games. Right now, Stadia hasn't proven it's at that same level. Also, I would much prefer to download my games over streaming them.
I feel like this is the correct image to be used here. I'm worried about it too and probably won't be investing early on, would love for it to prove me wrong and stick around as I think the potential is enormous moving forward if it can survive a rough beginning.
I was also pretty excited for Google+ a bit ago and I think we know how that went.
I honestly forgot about Google+. I remember there was a lot of hype with that. I even got a few codes in it's first run, and people from my facebook who I barely talked to asked for codes. Then, Google+ kind of died.
with no data cap and fast connection, i can definetly see an appeal for it.
like i will not be able to play red2, cyberpunk or whatnot on my pc anywhere near 4k 60fps. without substantial upgrades.
so definetly willing to give it a try,
really suspicious about the latency tough.
With no datacap, I am more on board for Stadia. It's nice, since you won't have to upgrade your PC. Though, for me, I just don't want to stream the games. I am glad that it will work for you, though!
In this day and age 50% of the games are already always online.
Not even close.
OP is not interested in Stadia at all...which makes this thread kind of odd
I tried to write out my thoughts as to why I am worried about Stadia. How is that odd?
You're watching your favourite youtube series. An ad plays for cyberpunk. Except it isn't a trailer it's just the charter standing still. 'Oh shit I can move the character.'
I think you will have to buy the game first, but a small demo like that would be interesting, and a good way to sell games to people who otherwise had no interest in them!
Stadia is a pretty hard sell atm, unless you're one of very few gamers who is just "I want ALL my games streamed". The fact that google effectively has one impressive timed exclusive (The Tequila Works game) and nothing else to prop their service up but old ports. They definitely have their work cut out for them in getting more people to adopt into the system.
Will be interesting to see if they stick with it, or just end up dropping it like a lot of their other products.
I have that same thought. I think the market of people who want all their games streamed, or want triple A games for $60 streamed, but don't own a console or PC is relatively minor. Everything right now on Stadia are multiplatform games, older ports, and two timed exclusives. Time will tell when Stadia's full launch in 2020 is any different.
More people should watch this. It addresses concerns about Google abandoning Stadia and answers a lot of other questions.
Thanks, I will check this out! :)
