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I will happily pay Nvidia to be able to play my Steam games in the cloud when I am out of state with no access to a gaming PC. But Google wanted me to buy a sep
by pie_flavor 4y ago
I will happily pay Nvidia to be able to play my Steam games in the cloud when I am out of state with no access to a gaming PC. But Google wanted me to buy a separate copy [!] at full market price [!!] while also paying them a subscription service [!!!]. And then there's no games, because they thought they could impose a specific graphics API instead of just porting D3D like Steam did, and in reality ports take time and nobody wants spend just as much money as any other console port takes in order to sell to a platform with a fiftieth of the users.
- camel_Snake 4y agoThe subscription is optional. I loved Stadia because I only really play one game, Destiny, and I could play it year round for just the annual season pass and 0 hardware investment. Came to ~$100 a year for all my gaming needs and it was perfect.
- drusepth 4y agoYeah, I mostly just bought games outright on Stadia rather than subscribing for the Netflix-y pool of games everyone said they wanted, which worked out really well for me in the end: I played for years and hundreds of hours and it was basically all for free.
- odessacubbage 4y agoi love ps streaming and chiaki because it lets me play visual novels and super robot wars on my ipad (with occasional lag spikes and drops in fidelity) but that is an incredibly niche use. game streaming has thousands of niche uses that make it a nice value-add to integrate onto existing products. currently game streaming does not have a mass-market use, especially not one that is google-scale. i am personally sad that stadia was not introduced as some weird side project like deep dream that could develop in perpetual beta until it was really and truly cooked.