$129 for the device,
$9.99 Per month,
$x.xx for the internet connection you require at all time due to no offline play,
$x.xx to buy titles that you can only play with said internet connection.
At least now you CAN buy games you can play offline with the other consoles and PC. If someone came up with Movies Anywhere for video games so i could buy it once and play on any console i would be cool with this, but 20 years from now when you get that nostalgia and want to pull the Stadia out and play that one game....well you can't (unless it is still around, but then they will pull games from stores due to licensing, maybe because it has that one song on it and it is copyright....). At least with a physical game and ps4 or xbox1 there are usually ways to play without internet on some games.
I bet with the data mining and everything they will do fun stuff like have real time ads play on billboards in games targeting you and other such fun stuff (maybe they do that already in games, i have never looked).
I think the tech is cool and some people will love it. Not sure if it is what i would want to invest in.
>> I bet with the data mining and everything they will do fun stuff like have real time ads play on billboards in games targeting you and other such fun stuff (maybe they do that already in games, i have never looked).
It's going to get interesting when they decide to start aggregating and storing in game behaviors, and then selling that data to third parties or using it to augment their incursions into health-care/insurance.
It'll get even more interesting when they cooperate with authoritarian states to identify 'problem' citizens based on in-game behaviors or limit the spectrum of possible in-game behaviours within ostensibly open world sandbox environments.
I'll leave the predictive policing branch of this prognostication as an exercise for the reader.
$129 for the device, $9.99 Per month, $x.xx for the internet connection you require at all time due to no offline play, $x.xx to buy titles that you can only play with said internet connection.
At least now you CAN buy games you can play offline with the other consoles and PC. If someone came up with Movies Anywhere for video games so i could buy it once and play on any console i would be cool with this, but 20 years from now when you get that nostalgia and want to pull the Stadia out and play that one game....well you can't (unless it is still around, but then they will pull games from stores due to licensing, maybe because it has that one song on it and it is copyright....). At least with a physical game and ps4 or xbox1 there are usually ways to play without internet on some games.
I bet with the data mining and everything they will do fun stuff like have real time ads play on billboards in games targeting you and other such fun stuff (maybe they do that already in games, i have never looked).
I think the tech is cool and some people will love it. Not sure if it is what i would want to invest in.