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TallSilhouette on 18 May 2020
TheMisterManGuy said:

It'll probably get better down the line, but the inability to have a tangible first party lineup ready for launch is IMO, the most boneheaded mistake Google made with the service so far. I think people can forgive the other problems with Stadia, if it at least had a library of compelling First Party Software exclusive to it, but it doesn't, so its flaws become even more apparent. Third Party Games give a platform market relevance, but First Party Games give a platform its personality. They help define the console's style, its features, its unique position in the market. Right now, aside from the novelty of Streaming, Stadia has no first party games, so as far as I'm concerned, it has no personality, no style, no uniqueness.

Indeed. I was more optimistic about the service and its potential before we had all the details and its underwhelming release. I expected a big first party title that leveraged Stadia's infrastructure for an experience that wouldn't have been possible before (the next step in massive multiplayer, for instance). No first party content in sight to separate the service from the rest has definitely been a huge misstep. If they don't deliver the goods this is gonna continue to flop hard. Maybe MS will pick it up if Google keeps dropping the ball.



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S.Peelman on 18 May 2020

Stadia is still a thing?



AJNShelton on 18 May 2020
S.Peelman said:
Stadia is still a thing?

Nope



Mummelmann on 18 May 2020

The 1st party exclusives are where the customers are; nowhere. Seriously, I know a whole lot of nerds (and even other folks) but not a single soul who has Stadia. My impression is that nerds don't care for it one bit, I count myself among these, and more casual consumers don't even know that it exists. And none of this has even touched on their failure to deliver on the lofty technical promises that everyone and their dogs knew weren't feasible to begin with.



Darwinianevolution on 18 May 2020

Don't worry, they'll announce an exclusive and months before the release the service will close down. No refunds.



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kirby007 on 18 May 2020

E3 2021 they will announce they have taken a majority stake in xcloud



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CuCabeludo on 18 May 2020

They just opened studios. You won't see AAA games before 2024. Google don't care if it will take 4-5 years, they are investing in Stadia for the long term as part of their Cloud platform.



only777 on 18 May 2020
Otter said:
Leynos said:

I don't support a future where corps control ownership like this. Pay full price for something you don't own on top of a sub fee. Google is the worst place for any of them. They shut shit down all the time so once they shut it down. Poof boom your games are gone. The consumer should be in control. Not the corporation. Removing less control for the consumer is anti-consumer. Stadia has failed and will die the death it deserves. I'm against anti-consumer. With BS practices like this in the 90s, I would not be able to play many of my fave games now. In 20 years I can play the games I own. In 2 years Stadia will be listed on the killed by Google Website.

literally no different from digital purchases on playstation or Xbox. 

Incorrect.  If Sony went out of business tomorrow, I can still play PSN digital games.

Plus not to mention that PSN digital games can be downloaded illegally through special ROM sites (although I probably shouldn't say here where to get them).  So these games can be played either on jailbroken hardware or via emulation far into the future.

Once stadia dies, those games are gone for good.



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Otter on 18 May 2020
only777 said:
Otter said:

literally no different from digital purchases on playstation or Xbox. 

Incorrect.  If Sony went out of business tomorrow, I can still play PSN digital games.

Plus not to mention that PSN digital games can be downloaded illegally through special ROM sites (although I probably shouldn't say here where to get them).  So these games can be played either on jailbroken hardware or via emulation far into the future.

Once stadia dies, those games are gone for good.

I was talking about the subscription model of paying for individual games, whilst also having a monthly fee. You're discussing streaming as a technology, which as I said isn't for anyone who is a afraid of being locked out of content in 5 years. But if someone doesn't want to spend $299 on hardware just to play a few games, this is a good solution for them.



DonFerrari on 18 May 2020

Well your OP is motive for hapyness, the less good exclusives on the service the less people not playing Stadia will miss.



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