I will point out with Steam, at least you can play to your single-player games offline as well as back them up to a medium or other drives.
I was freshning up and i realized there is one edge case Stadia is probably hitting at.
9 year olds.
I mean
kids really. Kids absolutely would
eat the idea of playing a game instantly and because they have less memories of the value of a physical product, they don't
care about the third party dependence. Besides that, when a place like Google would go bankrupt, they don't
care about losing their games either, because kids jump from game to game, a consistent hunger for new releases.
And i am sure they can
force mom and dad to get that expensive quick internet, because you know?
If
that is the angle Google is aiming for (And lets be real, its not a strange POV for them to have considering how YT is filled with Fortnite dance crap and how 9 year olds literally see YT as their one stop gateway to
fun) then yeah, i can see that be a success.
Its a
toxic success though, because it is maintained over the naivety of the average consumer (Soccer Mom's/Business Dad's) of this world and the insatiable hunger and moaning of 9 year olds who have zero responsibilty on what they do online.
Basically, we 20+ years olds aren't the target audience. The naivety of parents and the spoiled nature of 9 year olds is Stadia's audience.
So yeah,
very clever, Google...