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Stadia just doesn't make sense. it's only a matter of time until Google ends it completely. Assuming they give the controller kit for free, Stadia costs $10/mo

Stadia just doesn't make sense. it's only a matter of time until Google ends it completely. Assuming they give the controller kit for free, Stadia costs $10/month, so in 4 years you'd have paid $480, almost the same as a new console. plus, the price of the console likely isn't an issue if you can afford buying a couple of games that cost $60 each. then you have the latency problem in Stadia and the fact that you can't really play it from everywhere (even though it's in the cloud); you still need the chromecast, right? they might as well beef up the chromecast and make it a regular console. the newest chromecast already can play android games I think.

bustin 6y ago
Stadia doesn't cost anything per month to use. I can see how their horrible wording on the website and insistence on signing you up for the 10$ a month Stadia Pro can make it seem otherwise. I actually signed up and paid for a month because I thought it was necessary. I asked for a refund the next day and they refused me. You can play it on any device (no chromecast necessary) with basically any input method. I'm a huge fan of the tech and would use it more often while traveling with a laptop if it had more than a handful of games. Or a search bar in the ux. As usual Google does 80% of the work and gives up when it realizes the last 20% is the real hard stuff.
- zepto 6y ago
  > I asked for a refund the next day and they refused me. If they misled you into paying, that seems like straight up theft.
  - bustin 6y ago
    Fundamentally the responsibility is my own. They did not make my job discerning what I needed to use the service easy though.
- addicted 6y ago
  Aren’t there refund laws that should require them to refund you 1 day into a month ling subscription?
  - bustin 6y ago
    No idea. It was $10 and I ended up using the Pro discount to make it worth it, so really no hard feelings!
r2222 6y ago
$10/month is just for the 'Pro tier' which gives you ""4K"" But the implementation is shitty and it depends on the game and the devs on how "4K" the title is. Some games have no pro tier version, and some have like 1440p30. The free tier is 1080p60ish and you pay for the games you want. Input latency is really a non-issue. I don't think there's more to it. It's just not something you have to think about — until you do, but it's been pretty rare for me. Also you can play it on every desktop platform via Chrome, and via Safari on iPads and iPhones. Works on Android too. And of course Google is going to kill it probably soon :)
- bluefirebrand 6y ago
  I have to wonder where you live if you had no input latency. It seems to me that statements like that are reserved for people who live relatively near a datacenter or have extremely high internet speeds, or sometimes both.
  - Peritract 6y ago
    The latency issue seems to be a bit of a myth; every discussion of Stadia is filled with people who assume it's a problem, and multiple Stadia users saying they've never encountered it.
    - danielscrubs 6y ago
      Selection bias, not myth.
      - bluefirebrand 6y ago
        Right. I would never even bother trying Stadia because my internet connection does not pass the minimum requirements. And because I'm in Canada, buying internet that would be fast enough would be pretty expensive. So I have no idea what the input lag would be, but I can't imagine it would be any good.
  - r2222 6y ago

bustin 6y ago

Stadia doesn't cost anything per month to use. I can see how their horrible wording on the website and insistence on signing you up for the 10$ a month Stadia Pro can make it seem otherwise. I actually signed up and paid for a month because I thought it was necessary. I asked for a refund the next day and they refused me. You can play it on any device (no chromecast necessary) with basically any input method. I'm a huge fan of the tech and would use it more often while traveling with a laptop if it had more than a handful of games. Or a search bar in the ux. As usual Google does 80% of the work and gives up when it realizes the last 20% is the real hard stuff.

zepto 6y ago
> I asked for a refund the next day and they refused me. If they misled you into paying, that seems like straight up theft.
- bustin 6y ago
  Fundamentally the responsibility is my own. They did not make my job discerning what I needed to use the service easy though.
addicted 6y ago
Aren’t there refund laws that should require them to refund you 1 day into a month ling subscription?
- bustin 6y ago
  No idea. It was $10 and I ended up using the Pro discount to make it worth it, so really no hard feelings!

r2222 6y ago

$10/month is just for the 'Pro tier' which gives you ""4K"" But the implementation is shitty and it depends on the game and the devs on how "4K" the title is. Some games have no pro tier version, and some have like 1440p30. The free tier is 1080p60ish and you pay for the games you want. Input latency is really a non-issue. I don't think there's more to it. It's just not something you have to think about — until you do, but it's been pretty rare for me. Also you can play it on every desktop platform via Chrome, and via Safari on iPads and iPhones. Works on Android too. And of course Google is going to kill it probably soon :)

bluefirebrand 6y ago
I have to wonder where you live if you had no input latency. It seems to me that statements like that are reserved for people who live relatively near a datacenter or have extremely high internet speeds, or sometimes both.
- Peritract 6y ago
  The latency issue seems to be a bit of a myth; every discussion of Stadia is filled with people who assume it's a problem, and multiple Stadia users saying they've never encountered it.
  - danielscrubs 6y ago
    Selection bias, not myth.
    - bluefirebrand 6y ago
      Right. I would never even bother trying Stadia because my internet connection does not pass the minimum requirements. And because I'm in Canada, buying internet that would be fast enough would be pretty expensive. So I have no idea what the input lag would be, but I can't imagine it would be any good.
- r2222 6y ago