Google Stadia General Discussion - Like any other gaming platform, but worse.

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Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
With how much of a money printer Steam is, Valve can likely just eat any loss on the Steam Deck.

Easy joke re: GabeN already doing that goes here.
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Basically how consoles work, they sell the hardware at a loss, then make the real money on their cut of sales of software.
 
anustart76 said:
Basically how consoles work, they sell the hardware at a loss, then make the real money on their cut of sales of software.
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It also helps that two of the 3 Consoles are owned by companies where the Video Game Division likely isn’t as high of a priority - much as I joke about Sony using Playstation to prop up it’s Movie Studios, what with how many Playstation Exclusives feel like rejected movie scripts.

Nintendo just does as Nintendo wants, I’m pretty sure they could stop selling anything and be solvent for decades.
 
Gender: Xenomorph said:
Doesn't steam deck sellat a great loss?
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If you want an idea of how much the portable pc market has changed just in the last ten years, take a look at these prices.
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999 was the supposed minimum MSRP for the Razer Edge. Without it's controllers.
 
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Posting this here since it's relevant. It's about a bunch of retards trying to save a Stadia exclusive from dying with the "service".

I can't be the only one that feels that if you were fucking dumb enough to go exclusive on Stadia, you deserve this shit. Everyone with two braincells to rub together saw this piece of shit bombing from it's first announcement. If you were really concerned about the preservation of your game, you would of sold that shit on Steam from the god damn get go.
 
Nick Gars said:
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Posting this here since it's relevant. It's about a bunch of retards trying to save a Stadia exclusive from dying with the "service".

I can't be the only one that feels that if you were fucking dumb enough to go exclusive on Stadia, you deserve this shit. Everyone with two braincells to rub together saw this piece of shit bombing from it's first announcement. If you were really concerned about the preservation of your game, you would of sold that shit on Steam from the god damn get go.
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Reading his reasoning for why he was so enamored with Stadia and its state-share feature, I can understand why he jumped into setting up a contract that was exclusive (nobody else was doing that feature), but reading that he was behind The Tomorrow Children, you'd really expect him to understand that your games don't get to magically keep existing through online services just because they're unique or a few people like them. He basically learned nothing from that, which is silly, considering his spiel about wanting to preserve games for the long-term. If he had sat down with someone like Ross Scott and said "I'm gonna make an indie game exclusive to the Google Stadia, because I love the idea of games and gamestates being played decades in the future," I think he'd rightfully get called an idiot. Now he has to play phone-tag with Google reps just to dodge royalties for re-release, and develop his own copy of the state-share feature, which he could have just done in the first place.
 
Many people were hoping Stadia was to launch a linux gaming revolution as the service ran on linux and used vulkan, but as it turned out it had no effect at all.
 
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