Google livestream

Jogort

This all sounds like it’s moved on considerably since onlive or whatever it was called and will most likely work perfectly in the next year or 2 my only problem with it is for people like me who take their consoles to places without Internet. I take my ps4 to the ship with me and its a pain enough with digital purchases needing a connection to let you play nevermind going down the streaming only route which I guess will happen eventually. I like physical purchases for the ease of using when there’s no Internet.

Alex

Interesting article about Google’s propensity to shut products down. This is going to be a concern with Stadia I think. How long before Google just shutter it and you lose access to all your games?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-product-shutdowns-are-damaging-its-brand/

Brave

I think that’s a fair argument. Only thng I’d say is that their entertainment products don’t seem to disappear. Yes, music is migrating to YouTube Music but I think that shows they’re trying to have everything come through YouTube where possible. Which is something they’re doing with Stadia from the off.

DrDamn

With Stadia it’d likely be a subscription model you would be paying month by month (or year by year) and so lower risk in terms of investment. Unless they plan to actually sell games on the platform - which I’d never really consider doing.

Alex

It’s relatively easy for them to fold music into YouTube, as they’re the same thing pretty much. But Stadia will require a large amount of very expensive bespoke hardware and infrastructure to work. That’s going to put a lot of pressure on it to be profitable from the off. Remember as well that Google recently pulled Google Fibre out of a whole city because it wasn’t as profitable as expected.

I hope Google is in it for the long haul, but I think people are right to be sceptical and it’s a hurdle Google will have to overcome.

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