> Also, you have to actually buy those games first, so your library is a tiny fraction of what Stadia offers.

What makes you think games would just be included in Stadia?

Competing streaming services here are around $10-20/month without any games included. Origin's game access is $15/month without any game playing hardware included.

So... what will stradia end up being, and at what price? Would you pay $30/month for this? When a PS4/Xbox is only $300-400 in the first place, and has a lifespan of ~5 years?

Origin does not compete with Stradia, sorry.

I didn't say it did, sorry.

Oh okay, in that case there's no real example you've given for the cost, so $30 may or may not be the cost, but considering a high-end rig approaches $3k and is relevant for 5 years, $30 is a great deal, especially if you get access to a large game library, which is what's happening.

Origin isn't relevant to this conversation.

Er... What?

$15/month for a streaming service + $15/month for game access service equals, drum roll, $30/month.

What are you not getting here? Origin is relevant as a reference point for what the games themselves cost on a subscription.

Stadia still needs to actually pay for games, after all. Either as a subscription (reference origin's pricing), or you straight up buy them at the normal $60/pop.

Did you miss me saying "$30 is a great deal" or something?

True... but they were talking about how their collection was limited to their single gaming system at home which wasn't true. They have options for that. But both of those are technologies to stream your own games, they do nothing to provide the games themselves. So it really is apples/oranges as a general topic.

Yeah but do you really think you're gonna be like, "You could hand build YouTube at home!" and anyone is going to be like, "Oh okay, WTF Google why even try?"