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It's the same argument as buying digital copies of your Music via iTunes or something vs Spotify. And we all know who won. The convenience of streaming games is too hard to give up



The problem is that Stadia is streaming only, so no downloads or offline play, but you still have to buy each individual games.

So it doesn't fit either side in your analogy since it cherry-picks the bad parts of both alternatives.


I don't think Spotify will actually sell you music that you will still need Spotify's servers to keep running in order to access.


That sounds like an argument against Stadia, which forces you to rebuy all your games instead of just paying for the service like with GeForce Now.


Yeah I mean the cost can be argued about but buying individual games is going to be a thing of the past is what I am saying.


The difference is that Google has a well-known reputation for killing products.




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