If you want to play it on your tv today, you need a $130 controller and a $10 monthly subscription.
The entry point isn’t really that much cheaper when ps4 and Xbox are both going to be $200 (or less) over the holidays.
Right, as an early adopter. You're comparing it to end of life pricing of another product.
Next year when PS5 and X1+1 are being hyped, and simultaneously announcing end of support for the consoles being firesaled this christmas, its going to be a $0 'console' with $0 monthly fee versus a $500+ console plus mandatory online subscription charges.
Will it have console exclusives? Which ones? None have been announced. Even like death stranding which is already coming to Pc.
Microsoft is unlikely to port any of their first party stuff to it, as they have their own streaming service and game store.
Nintendo obviously won’t.
Anything the stadia gets that isn't on another console is a "console exclusive".
So like I say, its going to get a bunch of PC ports from publishers that don't bother going through console cert + devkit costs as de facto exclusives.
If it makes money for publishers, they won't even have to money hat that. Its literally the same way the Pc market operates. If theres money to be made, people will make it.
Given the entire
platform is server based and authoritative relaying on thin clients, I don't see how a bunch of existing MMO type games aren't going to inevitably land there, particularly if Google will pick up server and infrastructure costs.
So you might get money hatted timed-exclusives that go multi platform.
If it’s trivial to port games to it, why is it launching with like 8 games?
for the same reason they can't even guarantee preorders will be shipped or ready on 'release' date?
Its about the softest launch imaginable. They have most every major western third party signed up to support it. And not with spin off titles.