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A comment on Stadia Founder's Edition. Parent comment

Re:Stadia Founder's Edition by Dylan16807 on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:41AM (#20122183)
> A couple of million users (at max) are just not enough.

Are you taking it as self-evident that Stadia will have more than a couple million users?

> Also Stadia has a subscription basis.

So did fiber.

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Re:Stadia Founder's Edition by themacguffinman on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:02AM (#20122272)
Fiber is still serving customers. Not sure what you're referring to.
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Re:Stadia Founder's Edition by jonnismash on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:13PM (#20126715)
I believe he's referring to something like this: https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-...
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Re:Stadia Founder's Edition by v7p1Qbt1im on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:27AM (#20122387)
I believe there is a pretty big untapped market of gamers that are more than casual mobile gamers but not enough so to buy their own hardware. 120.- a year means you‘d have to play for 20 years until you reach the cost of top line gaming hardware. And a subscription doesn‘t depreciate.

Fiber is different I think because of shitty regulation that favors incumbents and the insane cost of financing a physical network.

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