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First reaction to headline was WTF, but given that it includes hardware that seems reasonable.

Not particularly pleased about monthly fee AND a la carte per game though. Imagine if netflix did that...there would be a riot.



Amazon does this. There are many shows and movies that are included with Amazon Prime but there are others that you need to purchase.


Fair point, but I think scale of the problem matters. That info sounds like the monthly fee will include ONE game - Destiny 2.

That's tangibly different from Amazon's mixed models. Especially since I get Amazon prime for the shipping...the movies are just nice to haves.

Which means the 10 USD is effectively a hardware rental fee only. And Google becomes a game distrib platform and eats Steam's lunch.


Considering Steam is full of people who will notice the latency of something like this, I doubt Steam is worried at all.

I'm no MLG tryhard, but I notice the latency when playing my Xbox One X across my local 1Gb network. I wouldn't want to have that be my daily experience.




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