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Stadia exists because Google wants to create more opportunities to show video advertising. What better way to do this than to turn games into another type of st
by tombot 7y ago
Stadia exists because Google wants to create more opportunities to show video advertising. What better way to do this than to turn games into another type of streaming video. Pre-roll before the game starts, mid-roll in between levels. When players stream games to other views, more pre-roll before they watch.
- deepbake 7y agoYou could just pay for the subscription and skip the ads though, similar to netflix or disney+.
- tombot 7y agoand YouTube premium :)
- javajosh 7y agoThis is absolutely true, but it doesn't mean the product doesn't have it's place. I for one don't particularly want to get involved with the "gaming PC" consumption game, but I sometimes would like to play a AAA game I read about. Playing a game through a stream on someone else's gaming rig seems like a good way for me to do this. Of course, what would really be interesting would be to setup a city-wide pool of gaming PCs and pay your neighbor to remote-pilot games, with low latency and keeping the spend local (and distributed). Think of it like "AirBnB for Gaming PCs". You could cobble something together today with VNC.
- icandoit 7y agoI thought that they created Stadia so that they could get recurring-revenue-customers to buy their GPUs for them.
- BinaryIdiot 7y agoThere are no ads on Stadia nor have they announced that there would be. You currently have to pay full price for their games, I don't see how you can just shove ads into them. Maybe in the future if they offer a subscription but right now your comment is just guessing at the future intent of a newly launched product.