Google is betting heavily on its cloud-based gaming platform Stadia. In a blog post today, Jade Raymond, VP and Head of Stadia Games & Entertainment, announced that the tech giant is opening its first dedicated video game studio in Montréal, Canada. This Stadia Games and Entertainment’s studio has been set up to "produce exclusive, original content across a diverse portfolio of games in all your favorite genres". The company has also opened job positions for this new branch.

Google Stadia is planned to release this November and with this news, we can expect some exclusives to hit the platform in the near future. What would you like to play on the Stadia?

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[The Real Jdbye]

Normally this would be the kind of thing you line up years before launch so you can actually release with some decent exclusives. Showing off a 1000 player BR in the initial announcement instead of speculating about it would've turned heads.. Now the genre will be dead by the time they get something likethat out.



If google offered a subscription to access everything, sure. But they aren't.

It is more like buy-to-play always-online games, which is all companies like Blizzard and Ubisoft seem interested in now.

They aren't? I thought that was what the subscription was for. You can buy games one by one to play them without a sub, or pay for a sub and get access to everything but only while you're subbed. That's how I understood it anyway.

 

[pedro702]

It's as same as you watch films on Netflix, u pay for service, but you won't own of any films u watch.

its not the same at all, in netflix when a new series or movie comes along you can see it as long as your subscribed to netflix, on stadia you pay for the service and then you pay for the games as well, the stadia subscription so far only gives you free destiny 2 , everything else you need to buy and keep paying the subscription also, so double pay, nothing like netflix at all lol.

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They aren't? I thought that was what the subscription was for. You can buy games one by one to play them without a sub, or pay for a sub and get access to everything but only while you're subbed. That's how I understood it anyway.

no you always need to pay subscription and then the game, google wont let you stream without both, i guess in the long run they will decrease the games individual price or even made them free like destiny 2, but right now you pay to stream and pay for every single game.

 

[leon315]

google offered a subscription to access everything, sure. But they aren't.

Dude, it's as same as microzoz' game pass, you have access only those game are licensed to Google.

 

[pedro702]

Dude, it's as same as microzoz' game pass, you have access only those game are licensed to Google.

google even said usbisoft pass or whatever is gonna be part of stadia so to play ubisoft games you will pay google streaming service and ubsidoft game pass so ouch that will hurt, and then other company's start doing the same crap your paying gold to play even half of the games on stadia.

 

[leon315]

its not the same at all, in netflix when a new series or movie comes along you can see it as long as your subscribed to netflix, on stadia you pay for the service and then you pay for the games as well, the stadia subscription so far only gives you free destiny 2 , everything else you need to buy and keep paying the subscription also, so double pay, nothing like netflix at all lol.

You sub for games, you pay for dlc, simple!

As any other stream service you indeed have access free games, but you don't have to purchase dlcs.

 

[the_randomizer]

Wow, so I get to pay for games on top of the subscription service for games I can't even keep? Wow!

 

[leon315]

Wow, so I get to pay for games on top of the subscription service for games I can't even keep? Wow!

Same as $ony's psn+, m$ gold, you won'thhave access those game when subscription expires.

 

[FAST6191]

I can't see any particular value in the Stadia model for me, and obviously if I don't get to keep (or more importantly trade) my games then it is even worse.

I would question why they have not done such a thing for android up to now.

Or if they have then... we can probably guess my response.

 

[pedro702]

You sub for games, you pay for dlc, simple!

As any other stream service you indeed have access free games, but you don't have to purchase dlcs.

lol you are dreaming, so far they say you pay for the subscription and then pay 60$ full price for any new game, just look it up, that is how its gonna be, ubisoft or EA or any game studio would just get afew cents so you could stream their brand new 70$ game, it just doesn't work like that.

so yeah right now with the info they release, you pay sub to stream and then pay for games to stream, the ONLY FREE GAME is destiny 2 they said it themselves on the announcement.

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Same as $ony's psn+, m$ gold, you won'thhave access those game when subscription expires.

you dont pay for the games when paying for subscription, that is not google stadia business model you need to inform yourself.

 

[osaka35]

https://careers.google.com/jobs/res...hl=en_EN&jlo=en_EN&q=stadia&sort_by=relevance

in English, the job results

 

[Deleted User]

I genuinely think that I'm part of the 1% of the people who aren't completely against Stadia.

 

[comput3rus3r]

This could flop harder than anything else but Google won't abandon

I genuinely think that I'm part of the 1% of the people who aren't completely against Stadia.

I'm not sure what you mean. GBAtemp members are kind of a niche group. The majority of the mindless drones in the general population will be all for Stadia.

 

[Taleweaver]

I wonder if Netflix started out with similar reactions.
"why would I pay for series that I don't own afterward?"

But meh... I can't really think of any game either. I'll see what they can cook up, but I doubt they'll sell me anything.

 

[Bladexdsl]

cloud gaming IS NOT the fucking future. when are these idiot companies going to realize this?! how many cloud gaming platforms/consoles have failed miserably before this...four?! guess who is next

 

[proffk]

Subscription models are big business. I'm sure the casual gamer will buy into a game subscription model but when more game companies get involved the market will become crowded & game exclusivity deals will be rife.

 

[comput3rus3r]

I wonder if Netflix started out with similar reactions.
"why would I pay for series that I don't own afterward?"

But meh... I can't really think of any game either. I'll see what they can cook up, but I doubt they'll sell me anything.

How Netflix started is already very well documented. In a nutshell they just replaced a dying movie rental business model.

 

[DANTENDO]

Hope stadia fails. I hate to see a all digital future where games get taken down & no physical copies.

You may hate it but youl learn to accept it as noone would quit gaming over it-and if companies save money by going digital then they hav the right to do tht - enjoy the gaming experience you don't need a box to look at to remind you tht you had fun with tht game

 

[Xzi]

More competition in the console space could've been a positive thing, instead this only presents competition for GeForce NOW, and I'd wager Stadia will be quickly forgotten in the same way that was.

 

[codezer0]

In a move that will surprise nobody with a memory spanning longer than five minutes, Google's algorithm squad will see the studio not immediately being successful and pull the plug on it before their first release even reaches the market; onto a platform that nobody with any sense would buy into.

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You may hate it but youl learn to accept it as noone would quit gaming over it-and if companies save money by going digital then they hav the right to do tht - enjoy the gaming experience you don't need a box to look at to remind you tht you had fun with tht game

These same companies are all proving why they can't be allowed to have such a future. Digital should provide more ways than ever to preserve the best. Instead, lawyers and accountants are finding more ways to lock us out of our own purchases and products.

 

[Rahkeesh]

There are games being added to Stadia subscription access, but not many. Like one or two per month. The starter is Destiny 2, which is free anyway! It doesn't install much confidence in that model.

They could pivot to something more gamepass-like down the road but that isn't what they are talking about now. The norm is $60 for indefinite access to a game, and add a sub fee if you want 4K instead of 1080p and some other perks, like say playing the service this year.

They've done their absolute best to confuse people by staggering the release, and the delay of founder's shipments just adds more to the idea that they are just rushing this rather than having everything lined up for a strong launch.