Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company

Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company by izzydata on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:37PM (#20596424)

It has no real advantages to buying a console because you still have to buy the games individually as they explained. It is no different than financing a gaming console except you could eventually pay it off unlike Stadia.

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Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company by high_derivative on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:22PM (#20596759)

n=1 but I if were considering the two options, I would simply not want one that has me owning more electronic waste (console). I am not sensitive to the price either way, but I am sensitive to owning more electronics.

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Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company by xchaotic on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:19PM (#20597094)

There’d be almost the same amount of electronics just sitting in Google’s servers. People don’t game 24/7 but if Google want to provision for peak loads like Christmas they can’t really get away with having less?

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Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company by cameronbrown on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:50PM (#20596533)

imo Stadia needs to switch to a Netflix style subscription-model to be financially viable (from a consumer standpoint)

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Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company by beefalo on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:34PM (#20597198)

I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility and I see them taking the same path as Netflix currently. They are launching with big games that people know, but they need to get people hooked with new exclusive games, and a bunch of cheap stuff so they can have the "Play 10k games for $X/month" marketing tagline.

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