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I think I'm one of the target markets for stadia. A big time gamer in my teenss and college/early post college days before career and family made me feel out mo

I think I'm one of the target markets for stadia. A big time gamer in my teenss and college/early post college days before career and family made me feel out more casual games. I only play a few AAA title to completion in a year now but have a large library of games on Steam, Epic and GoG that I never had the time or interest to finish. I was excited about Stadia when I first heard of it but needing to buy hardware for a service that will likely be languishing in a year and sunsetted in two just didn't interest me. I'm more likely to spend money on a 8 times more expensive VR set than a cheap piece of hardware that will be collecting dust in a drawer soon. Google's reputation for discontinuing projects already influences me. Is this something that people outside the HN bubble think about?

SmirkingRevenge 7y ago
You don't need to buy hardware for Stadia (sort of). At the moment, I do think you need to be invited by an existing member, to get an activation code , without buying the "founder's edition" - which is a controller and a chromecast ultra. But in general, you don't need either of those things to play games on stadia. You can use any controller (or kb/m, and any device that runs chrome, AFAIK).
- georgemcbay 7y ago
  I don't think this is a good defense of the service, in fact quite the opposite. The fact that you can't just buy access to it without buying the chromecast ultra hardware bundle just shows how half-baked the whole thing is. Especially since the chromecast ultra doesn't support non-Stadia controllers, so if you do want to play with say an Xbox controller google is bundlefucking you with hardware you will never use, which certainly doesn't make the service look any more attractive to people who might otherwise be interested.
imtringued 7y ago
>needing to buy hardware for a service that will likely be languishing in a year and sunsetted in two Just use your old rig. I used the same CPU for 7 years and it was never the bottleneck. The only reason I upgraded was because a bad PSU killed my GPU after 5 years. You order the GPU from your local online shop (Amazon is overpriced), remove 3 screws to open the case and plop in the new card. This doesn't take more than 15 minutes and you're good to go.

SmirkingRevenge 7y ago

You don't need to buy hardware for Stadia (sort of). At the moment, I do think you need to be invited by an existing member, to get an activation code , without buying the "founder's edition" - which is a controller and a chromecast ultra. But in general, you don't need either of those things to play games on stadia. You can use any controller (or kb/m, and any device that runs chrome, AFAIK).

georgemcbay 7y ago
I don't think this is a good defense of the service, in fact quite the opposite. The fact that you can't just buy access to it without buying the chromecast ultra hardware bundle just shows how half-baked the whole thing is. Especially since the chromecast ultra doesn't support non-Stadia controllers, so if you do want to play with say an Xbox controller google is bundlefucking you with hardware you will never use, which certainly doesn't make the service look any more attractive to people who might otherwise be interested.

imtringued 7y ago

>needing to buy hardware for a service that will likely be languishing in a year and sunsetted in two Just use your old rig. I used the same CPU for 7 years and it was never the bottleneck. The only reason I upgraded was because a bad PSU killed my GPU after 5 years. You order the GPU from your local online shop (Amazon is overpriced), remove 3 screws to open the case and plop in the new card. This doesn't take more than 15 minutes and you're good to go.