That’s what people said about Xbox and Wii

I always dreamed of a unifying platform and I thought it was Android but looks like its gonna be Stadia.

What's interesting is that YouTube to Stadia gaming connection which lets you play or join a game you see on YouTube. Now that is cool.
Also they are bringing couch co-op to the spotlight again via wi-fi.
Oh yeah, no one is gonna bitch about cross play again coz its there on the get go.

I question the appeal of showing some of the most annoying streamers or video chat hosts/players available to make it seem like it'd be cool to play with them and you'd somehow be in some sort of cool club by doing so.

But, then I remembered, Sony actually had this as a prominent feature of the PS4 early marketing. They didn't so much push the idea of tuning in to streamers and connecting to the games that way, although it was possible. They instead, made it where anyone could stream, and become one of these people, and build their own social circle around gaming.

I'd say early on, that idea actually had traction, as was evidenced by the rather high number of PS cameras that sold with the first year or two of the PS4. I don't know where it stands now for Sony, because they don't really talk about it, but I think a lot of people forget that Sony itself targeted that segment of the market to be a core feature of the system.

Google has some new ideas for this, and they're not bad ideas overall, but them being an all streaming service means I'm pretty much not part of their market. PS4 had the base hardware, and I have ignored all the streaming stuff, outside some share plays with friends, so it remained an option, which appears to be well integrated and utilized by the user base. It will be interesting to see if Google can make it into more, but I think being able to leverage YouTube will help them a lot. Sony managed to do it with Twitch, but YouTube is a much more known and watched site overall, and it opens up a lot of business opportunities for Google, and the streamers themselves...for better or worse.

its streaming only, so its not really competing with xbox and playstation as a whole, only their streaming services xcloud and PSnow

It's neat, but it wasn't running on your average internet connection. I highly doubt it will be that simple for everybody.

yup

google is good at coding and maths, but honestly they can't design well at all. Gmail interface looks terrible, the stadia controller looks awful, the one good thing about android is that you can customize it so it doesn't look like google...

You mean empty threats, right?

It is an inevitable future which all console manufactures (and consumers) have been inching closer towards each generation.

the future will be with no console, no physical one. no physical games etc. all streaming

Its a part of the future, and there is a market for it. It's getting a bit tiresome as a console gamer....and I even assume for PC gamers....to keep being told what the future of gaming is, as if it's some sort of absolute, one to rule them all, kind of thing.

There are lots of markets in gaming, and just like mobile devices not ending up being the future at large, neither will streaming. Just another option, which has it's pros and cons, and it's own market, some of which is shared with other markets. Some publishers will chase after it at the expense of other markets, others will avoid it or wait for it to become more proven. Customers will go on as they did, and the market will ebb and flow like it always has. I remember a time when PC gaming was dead, and it managed to rise from the ashes....mostly due to Steam. Or when console gaming was dead, but it rose from the dead....mostly because of Nintendo. Or how Single player is dead....but it's making a come back....mostly due to Sony and Nintendo.

So on and so forth. If we listened to what was the future, and took it at face value, and just accepted fate, then we wouldn't even have anything anymore.

Wanna know who will be most successful going forward? The one who still has a console, when everyone else has decided to abandon that market for greener pastures. While they all battle it out on the service front, the one that has a monopoly on the market that obviously exists because it's growing every year, will be very happy to have all those customers, and publishers aren't going to ignore 100 million plus gamers. They may still use those sub services, but our money is more important to them than where we play our games.

I get this strange feeling like Google will pull a Epic on us and buy exclusivity for a year. But yeah I don't want ad filled games and my personal info auctioned off to advertisers to bombard me with stuff I don't want

Of course Sony and Microsoft haven't had them right?

Money is one thing security is another but again millions have 0 knowledge past 2020.

Epic store for years struggled with a shopping cart/account theft/credit card theft

Rockstar launcher/store to this day over 5 years later still has horrific user interface security flaws lost account's and stolen CC

Then you got that activision need phone number oh we lost it launcher

The crown jewel is the ea launcher/store ea app 3 yrs old still has hundreds of threads were people lost games/accounts/game access or just straight up crashes.

Edit" Oh ubi launcher were you buy a game that may or may not be there again or work and the launcher 5yrs old still has no 4K support if you launch it on a 4k screen there is a high chance it will just crash.

It literally says in the OP that PC gamers don't like multiple launchers lol. It even mentions Steam being the go to for gamers

Title: "PlayStation Doesn't Need a Dedicated PC Store Launcher"

N4G: "Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming"

When you don't even read the headline...

Steam and GOG are highly preferred because of the rich feature set. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Epic etc have all set a precedent over the years for customers to instinctively expect individual publisher launchers to be so extremely half-assed that the majority simply don't want to bother dealing with what is almost an inevitable disappointment by comparison to Steam or GOG. Those publishers and their inaction or general disinterest to improve have effectively ruined any future adoption to be taken seriously.

Yep, huge double standard look at the tortured reaction to the ps5pro, websites hyperventilating like Sony is forcing people to buy it.

Wait my xbox from 2004 has avengers gaas on it? wow your so smart

m$ Gaas started with the other companies like sony

Gamepass yes they are deep into that but its still a huge money saver sense you do not own your games then get a service like that.

Now there pc xbox launcher that is trash for years now

That's right, well, BG3 deserved it imo.