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Wouldn't it make more sense then to buy a console? If you only play a few times a year, it doesn't make sense to be paying a subscription. Sure, you could start
by bogwog 4y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense then to buy a console? If you only play a few times a year, it doesn't make sense to be paying a subscription. Sure, you could start/cancel it whenever you want, but you still have to buy the game you want to play on top of managing the subscription. And if the sub fee is cheap enough that you don't care about paying it every month, it would still be cheaper to buy a console, since that purchase will be good for many years. In that case, it'd only make sense if you specifically don't want to deal with having a physical console.
Also, starting/stopping the subscription to play a few games every now and then seems to be counter to Stadia's business model, so that type of customer is probably not who they're targeting.
- mertd 4y agoSubscription is not needed. One can just purchase single titles.
- achairapart 4y agoStadia "Pro" is something like the PlayStation "Plus" subscription - I think. Every month you get new free-to-play games, some discounts plus some perks like 4k and surround. But that's totally optional, so you can just buy a title and play it whenever you want, without any running subscription. Besides, even if a subscription was needed to play, maybe I'd still feel that as a better option than buying a physical console that is mostly gathering dust, also considering it will be obsolete within a few years. But - again - this is from a very casual gamer POV. Once someone spends more time playing, and/or any fetishistic/collectible desire kicks in, then buying your own hardware makes much more sense.