Google's Stadia Streaming Service Launches Next Month - Will You Be Using It?

[DonFerrari]

VAMatt said:

DonFerrari said:

Average price certainly would fall (and he considered 40USD per game instead of 60), but list the 85 games he would buy and price to include in the total amount expended versus PSNow "game netflix".

Money is still money upfront or not, but if you want to make a present value comparison please do it and show us the difference.

The amount you are willing to pay more, get less performance, just for the occasional time you want to play elsewhere is quite different than most people in here.

I'm not willing to pay more for less performance.  I am only interested in paying less, or possible about the same amount for more convenience.  I see that Stadia (and other streaming services) may allow me to pay less.  Right now, I need at least two, preferably three consoles (not different platforms, but three XBs or PSs, for example) to hit most of the places I'd like to play. I wouldn't buy more than one at launch, which makes gaming even less convenient in the short run for me.  But, I'd pick up one or two more as prices drop.  So, let's say $1000 of consoles over the generation.  Then I have a $60 per year subscription to play online.  Then I have game purchases on top of that.  With Stadia, everything except the game purchase is eliminated.  Or, if I want to spend $10 a month for improved performance, it will take 8 years before I spend that $1000 that I would spend on consoles.  And, I still save the online game subscription.  After all of that savings, I have more convenience gaming too.  

I don't know how streaming is going to work out.  I plan to continue buying consoles for the foreseeable future.  But, I do see that streaming has potential to make gaming much more convenient, and possibly more affordable.  

I am also interested to see how Gamepass (and similar services) works cross-gen.  I already own two XBones.  So, if all games are cross-gen for a while, I could add just once Scarlett on my main gaming TV, then put the bones at the other TVs.  That would kind of give me the best of both worlds, without spending a ton of money.  

So you have bought 3 PS4 or X1 to game? If not you are just making silly point to inflate something.

Per your post if you bought one PS4 at launch at 399 and one on a discount 199 how would that amount to 1000? Strange math over there. Online play sure you could pay 60USD, or use any of the regular discounts for under 39, not that it would make much difference anyway.

Your console management seems quite odd.

If you want to play 1080p30fps to avoid paying 10 bucks for subs, then you may as well not even go next gen since you already receive 1080p30fps this gen with plenty of games. If you are willing to compare the experience of the local console giving you pristine graphics at 4k versus 1080p30fps plus latency "for convenience" well enjoy yourself.

I'm pretty satisfied with my PS4 sitting on one TV and carrying it over when I travel and want to play, bought PS4Pro for added performance not because I needed to use on a different TV. My son have received the PS4 to play though.