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Google Stadia Requires $130 Upfront, $10 Per Month at November Launch (arstechnica.com) 72
After the first three months, Stadia Pro users will have to pay $9.99 a month to maintain their membership. For that price, they will get access to Google’s highest-quality streams, at up to 4K/60fps with high-dynamic range (HDR) and 5.1 surround sound. In 2019, users will not be able to sign up for Stadia Pro without investing in the Founder’s Edition hardware package, and Founder’s Edition packages will only be available “in limited quantities and for a limited time.”
- by Anonymous Coward
Get hooked on games/stuck with my characters getting deleted if I don’t then pay a fee? No thanks. It seems like Google thinks players are really smart and want great complex features and yet are really stupid at the same time.
Re:Why do Millennials take gaming so seriously? (Score:4, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:10PM (#58720020)Um, you’ve obviously been living under a rock if you think this is a millenial thing. There are people who literally never stopped obsessively playing Donkey Kong, there are people who died playing Starcraft.
Christ, even my 68 year old father plays Minecraft until 2am in the morning sometimes.
But those people are the exception, not the norm.
Yes the old people are the exception because late Gen X’ers and Millenials were the first group who actually grew up with video games are part of their daily lives.
My grand mother still generally preferred to watch a 13″ black and white TV rather than the much bigger color TV she had just because she was used to the little black and white one.
As people have grown up with video games though, they have become just another entertainment medium. Just like books, movies, & music, there are also video games
Um, you’ve obviously been living under a rock if you think this is a millenial thing. There are people who literally never stopped obsessively playing Donkey Kong, there are people who died playing Starcraft.
Christ, even my 68 year old father plays Minecraft until 2am in the morning sometimes.
Agreed. I’m 53 and I will stay up WAYYYYY too late some nights playing Fallout 4. Playing that game is like going into a time warp. Feels like you have been sitting there for 30 minutes and 4 IRL hours have flown by. SMH.
Stupid off-topic question, but I read that message and I got very interested in what kind of an experience is someone of your generation looking for in fallout 4? Are you in it for adventuring for example, exploration, shooting, building that minutemen village? Do you use mods, and if so, what kind of mods?
Still not fucking you again after fucking you on that anti-science rant of yours. No matter how long you stalk me on slashdot. It was a one night stand.
Two-fold response:
1) ‘Millenials’ are adults.
and
2) Probably because they enjoy gaming.The baby boomers generation was into cars and trucks.
Generation X was into PCs, game consoles.
Millennials are into social media and always-on gaming.If you don’t understand something new, it’s because you’re older than you think.
I can understand an adult playing video games for an hour or two on the weekend for fun and relaxation. But why do Millennials take gaming to such an extreme? Why does it become the focus of their lives? Why do they play for six or more hours a day, every day?
I’m a Gen X-er, and this is probably what I would do if I wasn’t married. Now, playing games at all seems to draw wife aggro…
Now, playing games at all seems to draw wife aggro…
Don’t rule out a divorce.
- by lgw ( 121541 )
No matter how close the relationship, it’s important to set aside non-trivial “you time”, at least a few hours a week. Otherwise there’s something very unhealthy, even creepy, going on.
It is pretty clear that you are just stating an insult in the form of a question. Be that as it may, there is a clear answer.
Gaming is cheapest, fastest, safest, and most-varied path to gratification available.
Gaming is no longer just pac-man. Modern games are far more immersive than television or movies and far more engaging of the brain (including strategic thinking, logical problem solving, the whole set of social skills (for multiplayer games), reaction time, precision, and on and on).
Compare to, say,
If you think an FPS gives you as much of a thrill as real life, you need to get out more.
- by lgw ( 121541 )
But why do Millennials take gaming to such an extreme? Why does it become the focus of their lives? Why do they play for six or more hours a day, every day? Why are they only able to converse about Pokeymen, Call of Duty, and Fortnight? What causes an entire generation to become so obsessed with a childhood hobby like video gaming?
For the exact same reasons Boomers watch the same amount of TV. GenX sort of splits the difference.
I can understand a person watching a show or two, but what compels boomers to spend all their free hours watching TV? Don’t they have more productive or engaging activities to do?
Get hooked on games/stuck with my characters getting deleted if I don’t then pay a fee? No thanks. It seems like Google thinks players are really smart and want great complex features and yet are really stupid at the same time.
What I would be worried about is Google all of a sudden pulling the plug on the system if they happen to get bored or don’t make enough money to suit them to keep the service alive.
Spend all that money up front and then the equipment becomes a paperweight because you can’t use it anywhere else.
that is why is better to have as just an VM with your steam accounts, you gog account, you games, etc!
What I would be worried about is Google all of a sudden pulling the plug on the system if they happen to get bored
I have a policy of using google services if I need too but not relying on them for future plans. The country side is littered with corpses of google projects that they have taken out into the field and shot. If I can’t count on a service being around when I need it, better not depend on that service at all.
If I can’t count on a service being around when I need it, better not depend on that service at all.
Also, if you “depend” on access to games, re-evaluate your life.
and yet are really stupid at the same time.
That will be decided by the numbers.
But with Google’s record, the real question is, How long before they kill it?
Get hooked on games/stuck with my characters getting deleted if I don’t then pay a fee? No thanks.
FUD. Any evidence that’s going to happen?
Hahahaha what a joke (Score:2, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward$130 for a box, $10 a month, but only if you BUY NOW!
If you don’t already have a Chromecast Ultra, and you want one, then it’s a reasonable price given what controllers cost, and that there’s three months of service free. If not, you’d have to be a compleat fool to buy in, because Google will almost certainly cancel this service within a year or two. If you have the money to throw away on something like that, then you can afford to play games locally.
because Google will almost certainly cancel this service within a year or two
Go ahead and link some examples where Google has done this. Specifically, offered a paid-for, physical product up front then abandoned all support for it.
because Google will almost certainly cancel this service within a year or two
Go ahead and link some examples where Google has done this. Specifically, offered a paid-for, physical product up front then abandoned all support for it.
Nice try, but that’s not what we would be talking about here, because you’d still have a Chromecast and a controller, and they would work fine. It’s not like you’d have bought nothing, you’d have something for your money. I guarantee that Google’s ToS aren’t going to bind them to continuing to provide the service beyond their interest. They’ll keep it going a bare minimum of one year, though I predict it will be more like two to three.
The smart thing to do is to wait until they open the service to other dev
Google Glass?
The Nexus line of unadulterated, affordable, powerful, dev-focused phones?
Fiber internet?
Their shitty fucking router thing?
The early doorbells, thermostats, or whatever the fuck else?
- The best part is that it’s a Google offering.
You’ve got to be clueless or a total fucking tool to buy into a Google beta.
- by epyT-R ( 613989 )
you pay to play games through a laggy remote ‘desktop’ streamed to you via shitty mpeg video.
- by Anonymous Coward
There are plenty of you.
Stadia game-streaming service (Score:5, Funny)
by grep -v ‘.*’ * ( 780312 ) on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:01PM (#58719972)Outsourcing game hardware? And then playing a game? But some are boring, some are very hard, and some take hundreds of hours? Who has time for all that?If only there were some way to also outsource actually playing the game. That’d be great! I could pay for both the external hardware and for the external usage — that way I could spend my time doing more pleasurable things.
Why, I could even pay more for a more efficient (faster time) result! It’s a win (Google) win (player) win (me)!!
Search “games that play themselves”, such as https://store.steampowered.com… [steampowered.com]
- by epyT-R ( 613989 )
http://progressquest.com/ [progressquest.com]
- What games interest you? I am willing to play the game for you in exchange for a fee, but the price will be dependent on how much fun it is!
Have you tried not inserting it into anuses?
and you have to rebuy games? Why not just rent an VM like Shadow?
and that is any game with any mod that you want.- by AvitarX ( 172628 ) <me&brandywinehundred,org> on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:12PM (#58720042) Journal
But I’m wary to pay anything up front for a service I feel likely to flop and be cancelled.
Chromecast Ultra $60 (though my TV does this)
3 months $30
controller $40Also, monthly sub + buying games seems like a bad deal.
From the previous article:
Stadia is not a dedicated console or set-top box. The platform will be accessible over the internet on a variety of platforms: browsers, computers, TVs, and mobile devices. In an onstage demonstration of Stadia, Google showed someone playing a game on a Chromebook, then playing it on a phone, then immediately playing it on PC, picking up where the game left off in real time.
Stadia can stream games in 60 fps, with HDR and 4K resolution, said Google’s Majd Bakar. In the future, Bakar
playing it on a phone?? don’t dumb down controls to make that work well.
Can you even imagine if everyone starts gaming this way? If you thought Internet was at maximum capacity before that…
Me, I’ll wait for the Intellivision Amico.
cap’s and ISP’s pushing there own gaming service (while slowing down others)
There are three.
1. the male sex
2. the female sex
3. insectsThat’s it!
and how will Cancon rules work with stuff like this?
- …. to drop prices ending in 99c.
Either you charge a subscription, or I buy games. You can’t have both, _and_ also charge the three digit up-front fee. Epic fail. Better luck next time.
- by symbolset ( 646467 ) *Anybody know how to get an invite or whatever?
$0 per month. Since you’ll be buying $80 in games every time there is a sale.
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