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A hypothetical Google-Valve doesn't need to necessarily own all of the rights to every game in order to allow people to play the game via Stadia.
by endisneigh 5y ago
A hypothetical Google-Valve doesn't need to necessarily own all of the rights to every game in order to allow people to play the game via Stadia.
- spiderice 5y agoHow do you figure? Netflix can't show movies they don't have the right to. Why would streaming Video Games be any different?
- endisneigh 5y agoThere’s precedent either way: Publishers abandoned GeForce now for reasons around licensing, but Apple made digital asset usage mainstream with the original iPod. More recently Google allows you to upload and read your own books on play books and your own music to YouTube music. Game publishers would bicker for sure, but there’s no reason Google couldn’t argue that you’re purchasing a cloud hard drive and it’s mounted to the closest compute aka stadia It really could go either way.
- packetlost 5y agoBecause the user has to own rights to use the content. Stadia is selling hardware, not the games itself in this hypothetical scenario. Also, see GeForce Now.