Sure it does. Unless you like this trend of paying new money for ports of old games just to be able o play them on new hardware.
Why would you imagine that? The whole point of streaming a game is so that you can play a game that requires powerful hardware without needing to own the hardware.
Iām pretty confident that will 100% not be the case
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Depending on the hardware I canāt imagine it wouldnāt be the case. It makes sense especially for older games.
Not all games will turn into coasters but a lot of games these days seem to lean heavily on multiplayer or social functions, and those will be useless. From will probably poet a lot of their older games though I imagine.
Iād be curious to see how studios who are developing games for Stradia are going to be making money. Itās not the case where you sell X amount of games and get $60*X.
Anyone who has a Switch and doesnāt have Yokuās Island Express, you should really get in on this. Itās half off with the sale going on now.
$10 for that is well worth it. I paid $20 for the physical release when GameStop converted their new to used inventory months ago. Such a great game.
do you played trough it?
Yeah itās like a solid 6 hours maybe, but I didnāt collect everything. I said I was going to go back and do it, but as I mentioned, I have a backlog so Iād rather play new stuff since I finished it already.
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Imo the main point is to have a library of games available at any time that can be played on most things. Iām sure there would be limitations to being able to download games, but older games especially I canāt imagine a service like that wouldnāt allow you to download them.
If itās a game Iāve enjoyed enough and want to keep enjoying than yes, i absolutely will buy them over and over and over.
Iāve bought FFX and X-2 5 times.
Iāll have bought Castle Crashers 5 times as well when it comes out for switch and PS4.
Google has deep pockets so I imagine theyāll do like Sony and offer financial incentives for companies to publish for them.
Streaming is probably gonna crash the industry for awhile though, but costs have gotten out if hands and this will probably regulate it.
Itās actually pretty nice. I either get a nifty collection in HD or I get the game in HD with all the extra doo dads like the KH collections.
Itās pretty fuckin great to have th option to purchase a better version of something I already love. You know how fucking awesome DMC1 is in wide screen dude? Cuz I do.
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Why do you keep bringing up the option to download? There isnāt one. Stadia is purely streaming.
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Yeah Stadia has no hardware at all aside from an optional controller
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My rebuttal, I am more than happy playing on my Nes, SNES, Genesis, PS2, Dreamcast, Saturn, Game Cube, PS3, Neo Geo, Switch and PC. I am not looking forwards to the next gen PS5 and Xbox of cloud computing becomes a thing.
Download them onto what? The controller?
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I know Stadia is what prompted this discussion, but Iām talking about game streaming services in general, not just Stadia. but youād have to play Stadia on some kind of hardware that presumably has an HDD, so while they may be pushing the streaming aspect, the service will probably have to offer the ability to download at some point if it wants to stay viable. PSNow allows you to download stuff.
TBH, Iāll be surprised if Stadia sticks knowing how Google is, but it could be the thing that makes game streaming a āthing.ā You donāt have to like it, but unless companies like Sony and Nintendo dig their heels in and refuse to support it, thatās where the market is likely going.
Even if the casual market goes there(heck, mobile gaming is already where the casual market is), that wonāt end the core market wanting actual downloads or hard copies.
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Yeah but Stadiaās biggest hurdle is the same one that Amazon and most other companies that try to create a platform like this have run into.
Getting the audience to justify the expenses early on.
A service like this will obviously be a subscription one, so they have to pay developers to let them use their products. Also they need exclusive software to draw people in. Google has one of the fattest wallets in the technology world but they will have to commit a lot to lock in folk and prove this streaming option is viable over downloads or physical purchased software.
Like I said before. Googles venture into the gaming world is going to crash and burn like Apples did.
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