hmm.. MS is well positioned here with their ecosystem + gamepass/ultimateLeaks...
Requires $12 a month subscription (launch pricing) and Game Purchases.
Curious to see which libraries you can pull from for Stadia.
hmm.. MS is well positioned here with their ecosystem + gamepass/ultimateLeaks...
Requires $12 a month subscription (launch pricing) and Game Purchases.
Not everyone can play Doom Eternal at 4K60 locally [on a wide range of supported stadia hardware, including 5+ year old PCs/Latops, standalone TVs...]Well that makes more sense I guess. Similar to how Origin Vault works, looks like they're basing it on that model. Not sure about paying full price for a game that is likely going to be a worse experience than playing locally.
Yeah that's not right. So if you're not paying a subscription, your full game you purchased for $60 is limited to 1080p30? Or can't play at all?I think the backlash is that's both & not one or the other.
Apparently, a batch of older games will be free but newest games will require purchase. Next year, free access for those "free" games will be unlocked, but stream will be limited to 1080p.
IMO, this sounds mostly reasonable [if game pricing is not crazy high]. Streaming can't be for free, not everything can be inside some cheap monthly/yearly sub, and publishers of new games LIKE MONEY.
Ars article: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019...-130-upfront-10-per-month-at-november-launch/
Google Stadia requires $130 upfront, $10 per month at November launch
Package includes Destiny 2 among freebies but needs a la carte game purchases.
Players will have to pay $129.99 up front and $9.99 a month, on top of individual game purchase costs, when Google's previously announced Stadia game-streaming service launches in November. A free tier will be available some time in 2020, as will a paid subscription tier that doesn't require the upfront purchase.
The Stadia Founder's Edition and its contingent Stadia Pro subscription will be the only way to get access to the Stadia service when it launches, Google announced today. That $129.99 package, available for pre-order on the Google Store right now, will include:
- A Stadia controller in "limited-edition night blue"
- A Chromecast Ultra
- Three months of Stadia Pro service and a three-month "buddy pass" to give to a friend
- First dibs on claiming a "Stadia Name"
STADIA LAUNCH WINDOW GAMES/PUBLISHERS
Announced as of June 6, here are the titles early Stadia users can expect:
* - No specific games announced yet
- Bandai Namco: Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
- Bethesda: Doom Eternal+, Doom(2016), Rage 2, The Elder Scrolls Online, Wolfenstein: Youngblood+
- Bungie: Destiny 2
- Capcom*
- Coatsink: Get Packed+
- Codemasters: GRID
- Deep Silver: Metro Exodus
- Drool: Thumper
- Electronic Arts*
- Giants Software: Farming Simulator 19
- Larian Studios: Baldur’s Gate III+
- nWay Games: Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
- Rockstar*
- Sega: Football Manager
- SNK: Samurai Shodown+
- Square Enix: Final Fantasy XV, Tomb Raider Definitive Edition, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- 2K: NBA 2K, Borderlands 3+
- Tequila Works: Gylt+
- Warner Bros: Mortal Kombat 11
- THQ: Darksiders: Genesis+
- Ubisoft: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Just Dance, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint+, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Trials Rising, The Crew 2
+ - Games not yet launched on any platform.
don't need a console. Play anywhere. Very little upfront costs, and easy to dive into and out of without boot up. Don't need to worry about upgrading. EtcI just don't see how "the play on any screen" is a big deal. I'm pretty sure the next Xbox or Playstation will be able to stream to any screen. The only difference being that the data center is in your own house. I do suspect that Stadia and whatever other streaming service you use will be better outside your own network if you live close to a data centre but for screens around the home next gen should have you covered.
don't need a console. Play anywhere. Very little upfront costs, and easy to dive into and out of without boot up. Don't need to worry about upgrading. Etc
tldr; very low barrier for entry
I was never interested tbh, but it's worse than I thought. If I wanted to buy games on the cloud I'd rather buy them for the PC.
Correct.If you live in the right place and have uncapped fibre otherwise not so much. Also with the talk of ssd on next gen consoles boot up is not really going to be an issue.