Google Stadia: It’s A Thing
When Google announced they were leapfrogging E3 to reveal their Stadia game “console” on June 6, we figured “they must have news so big that it puts everything else to shame!” Given the size of the company and the resources at its fingertips, we were expecting a megaton bomb like “we bought Activision!” or “WE’RE coming out with Half Life 3!” But maybe we were just projecting Microsoft’s behavior onto Google’s. The former likes to throw its weight and cash around to stay competitive, gobbling up studios and bragging obnoxiously. The latter doesn’t have a tendency to spend its problems away; rather, it just quietly gives up and moves on to something else. Google Stadia’s launch will be a quiet and cautious affair, not a loud one. Stadia will launch this November in two tiers: Google Stadia Base, which carries no subscription fee (you must buy the games though) and Google Stadia Pro, which costs $9.99 per month and has 4K support plus free games and discounts on others. Base