Says my 40+ physical Switch games!

Yeah, their lack of real game sharing is a hard pill to swallow.... I picked up a pokemon lite for my girl and got irritated when I was faced with that reality. I've picked up almost all the big games on cart, luckily, so she can play around 50 of my games, only mario odyssey is digital and three houses. Come on Nintendo... atleast let your audience share the damn games with their immediate family. Unfortunately, they day they do that will be the same day they bring voice chat to the system. 

All that niggling is useless. Focus on the important things: Stadia works on a technical level and it will get better. Nextgen will cost a premium and a lot of casuals will look for alternatives.

i advise you to see the reviews first. from the descriptions i saw it seems at best to work as well as the current version of PS now. some artifacting now and then, muted colors, slight lag enough to throw your timing off in some games, but overall playable sure.

so it's really nothing new what stadia is doing, just on a terrible business model which means both X Cloud and PS Now are better alternatives as thigs stand.

What a lonely island you are on here on VGC. It's just you and.....,Chancey?....If there's one thing I've always wanted to do as a gamer, it's closing the ties between myself and casuals looking for alternatives.

Prices seem fine, in line with other consoles digital stores. Considering the increased cost to Google of free unlimited streaming this is good.

Saying you can get X game much cheaper on X platform is always going to look very negative to new releases. An example would be Witcher 3 that came to Switch for $60 when you could get it for $15 on other platforms. It's not exactly a fair comparison.

Amazon (current) physical PS4 disc prices:

Red dead redemption 2 = 39$ new (35$ used)
Mortal Combat 11 Special edition = 35$ new
Shadow of the Tomb Raider = 19$ new

"An example would be Witcher 3 that came to Switch for $60 when you could get it for $15 on other platforms. It's not exactly a fair comparison."

So your saying wait a year or two, and these games on stadia will be as low as they are on the current PS4/XB1?
Why release full price though, if you know your competition has them selling for much cheaper currently? and at better experiance (gameplay wise)?

Better question... why wait a few years on stadia game prices to drop, if you own a pc or console?
Just get it other places cheaper.

I'm haveing a hard time seeing how stadia is going to compete tbh.
Theres just too many issues in the way.

Nobody should be paying those prices though. All of those games can be had for way less money, either by waiting for a sale or buying a gently used retail copy. Digital storefront prices work like clothing prices in department stores. They always list the price as something ridiculous in the hopes that some sucker will pay it. Then when they are ready to actually start selling product they list a more reasonable price and call it "a sale". 

Steam, PSN, and XBOX stores all work because there are alternatives for customers to shop at for a fair price. If you don't like the prices on Steam's main page you can always just buy a Steam Key from another web site at a fairer price. If you don't like the prices on PSN or XBOX you can always just find a physical copy for less. 

But what can a Stadia customer do if they don't like the prices listed? Nothing. Publishers want it this way, and like it this way. They want to be able to charge the maximum amount for their product. And in an ecosystem like Stadia where there's no competition for game prices, they can indeed charge whatever they want. 

Google don't choose the prices, publishers do. Just as publishers choose the prices on PSN/XBL.

Releasing games on a new platform at full price is just what publishers do. Witcher 3 was $60, Crash released on Xbox/Switch a year later, but wasn't cheaper. That's just how it is.

I agree, or at least I wouldn't pay those prices anyway.

"But what can a Stadia customer do if they don't like the prices listed?" - Very soon there'll be heavy competition with cloud gaming services. XCloud, Stadia, PSNow... we know EA are working on a cloud service too. Everyone's going to be trying to get in the ring and there will be price wars. Just not in the next few months.

Stadia may essentially have a monopoly at the moment, but that will change quickly. Then the competition for game prices will start and will be fierce. With Zero barrier for entry (No expensive hardware to buy) these services will have to offer the best price and best performance for their games or people will just buy it on another service. There'll be no problem switching between them on a whim.