Mnementh said:
WolfpackN64 said:
My thoughts on the whole Stadia thing.
Who is this really for?
People who already have gaming pc's or beefy PC's for video editing or other compute-intensive work won't need this, save in the scenario they game a lot on the go.
Console players already have their consoles, and as long as consoles serve a secondary role as physical/digital media boxes, people will keep buying them. So unless they want to take a lot of games on the go, I don't see many people really investing in it.
People who already have large gaming libraries, probably the same as the first group, won't rebuy a lot of their games on Stadia and all major digital platforms give free games from time to time.
So who do I see using this? Mainly people who have something like a thin and light laptop as their chief computer, or PC gamers starting out who can cheap out on hardware by getting Stadia (provided they don't have a large library already). People who game a lot on the go AND have consistent internet speeds (which isn't a given). I don't see all that many casual thin and light notebook users getting invested in AAA games all of the sudden though.
I really wonder who's going to be the main market for this platform. Me? I don't have nor want a Google account (not anymore), so I'm not using it either way. |
People who currently don't or seldom play games, as this is too time consuming on their normal life and who therefore don't want to bind themself to hardware dedicated to that (that includes a gaming PC). Also people who play only one game (FIFA, COD) and don't see the need to buy hardware additionally to their game.
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I wonder how Google is expecting to make much money of Stadia that way. People that only buy COD and FIFA are probably en masse going to go for the free tier. People buying one, two or even three games every year on the free tier are going to cost Google money in running costs.
