Right now, $130 is the only edition. I think the one you're talking about comes out next year.

We're talking about the fundamental value of the product, so the normal price matters a lot more than the preorder price.

I get where you're coming from, but go to Stadia's page. Click "Buy Now". You land at $130 plus $10/month with no other options. This isn't a future product or preorder, this is launch. The hardware and service are live right now. If you want to play: $130 plus $10/month.

I think this release structure is pretty daring. They're getting a lot of bad press, it's expensive, it's not a smooth experience. Also, if nobody gets on this holiday season, I'd expect game developers to throttle on putting money into optimizing for the platform, which would begin the platform death spiral.

They don't have to say on their website that it's three-ish months of paid beta access to make that the reality.

> Also, if nobody gets on this holiday season, I'd expect game developers to throttle on putting money into optimizing for the platform, which would begin the platform death spiral.

Google can very easily afford to pay 50 developers to optimize for it. I only see this dying from Google's direct failures, not from that kind of death spiral.

> The regular 1080p stadia is free

Will be free, somewhere in 2020

... and isn't available.