Google signs 5 studios to make exclusive Stadia games, including Supermassive and Harmonix

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DonFerrari said:

Didn't see anyone happy with they poaching these exclusives. What I saw was people acknowledging that they should have done it a lot earlier if they wanted to have people willing to sign.

I was reffing to the other thread, the "where the hell are Stadia 1st party?" one. Some folk in there claiming it needs exclusives to sell, and I'm sitting here, seeing Steam, which mostly sells third party games (not all of them are exclusive, and certainly not dirty deals with EGS),based on it's storefront, not it's first party or whatever indie titles or AAA are exclusive to it (for whatever reason).

Stadia has an insane service problem, it's not that the service needs exclusives, it could survive without them. What it needs is better services, better deals on said service, because really when you look at it, Stadia isn't a console or a PC, it's an online networked service plain and simple, it is getting you to pay for something, but that's mostly down to the online service, which is the core reason to even use the thing in the first place.

Also, going by that Orcs must die Stadia trailer, it's mostly positive, and thee's already comments of "can't wait to play it", written down, not "can't wait to play this on my console/PC", which is leading me to believe that the normies are starting to slowly file in the ranks of those core gamers that were at first interested in the service, but basically hate it now. I believe it's what one would call "the hate dying down", though in Stadia's case, that's not a good thing.

Last thing we need are normies piling onto this service and basically pulling a mobile gaming repeat and inflate it's popularity, thus getting everyone to trend chase, instead of pulling a Nintendo and ignoring it for as long as possible (which in this case, would be good for those of us that still want to play physical or downloaded digital).