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JWeinCom said:
Take myself for instance. Would I rather get a new piece of hardware? Yeah sure. But I just started law school, and discretionary money is incredibly limited. If there are next-gen exclusives that I'd want to play, I'm far more likely to buy it on Stadia. The money is way more important to me than potential quality issues. I'm sure I'm not the only one with financial concerns that would make buying a new system an issue. Another obvious market is those between 9 and 18 who are not working. Next gen hits and there are some exclusives you want to play. Convincing your parents to buy you a new system and a new game for 500+ dollars is going to be a lot harder than convincing them to buy a new game for 60 and potentially a controller for 70. There are a lot of people who like games but for whom 4-500 dollars in their pocket will be more important than potential quality issues. If you can't think of any people like that, then the problem is with your imagination. |
An average local electronics store will have the option to purchase any console on monthly payments under finance schemes. People can also, you know, save money for upcoming or released products they're interested in, as they always have done. No one was ever forced to shell out medicine money to buy gaming hardware or software.
You might feel like it is a rational cheaper option, however the same was true for OnLive. Or buying a graphics card, slapping it to an average PC and pirating games to hell and back. But people don't buy things rationally and if anyone knew precisely what leads a product to succeed or fail, we wouldn't have flops left and right in any industry. Google itself has a gigantic pile of these lying in their trash bin.
