How important are first party games to a console?

[TheMisterManGuy]

Ka-pi96 said:

TheMisterManGuy said:

Stadia is a Streaming platform. Billed as an answer to PlayStation and Xbox by Google. If Google wants Stadia to have any longevity, or be taken seriously by consumers, it needs first party games, there's no way around it. 

It's a storefront. They're not trying to sell you hardware. People already own PCs. They don't need 1st party games for you to play your games through them rather than Steam or GOG or something.

They just need to offer a service good enough for people to want to get their games through them rather than the alternatives. 1st party games are immaterial to that.

The games aren't running on PCs though. They're running on Google's servers at their Data Centers. Stadia is a platform, it's not a store like Epic Games is. It's Google's answer to PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.