I think that in general, the choice is Smash news or no news, and I would rather have Smash news than no news.

This is not correct. Stadia is a free service. You just need to pay for games.

To clarify this a little, Destiny 2 and Bomberman R Online are both totally free to play on Stadia now. You can play them all you want without spending a dime.

Yeah, it’s a pretty amazing offer. 60 dollars all in to play the biggest game of the year. If it had cross save I think I would double dip, but I also have a gaming machine I'd rather use for this one.

This is actually one of the big reasons I get excited about the future of true cloud gaming like Stadia or Luna. When all the computation is happening server side, everyone can actually be playing in the same environment.

according to Google, two people can play the same shared game simultaneously.

Yeah I think this would only work as a free game unfortunately.

here’s a direct link to the demo if anyone wants to try it.

This is a big step for Stadia. So far the only AAA games they’ve had are a year+ old. Having day and date launch parity with the biggest release of the season is a big deal.

I know you probably aren’t an journalist but there is a lack of correct information here.

As has been explained, Akrides is not correct. That’s not how this controller works. It talks to the Luna Servers, then they send an image to whatever screen you’re playing on. Picture Luna as a console that lives at Amazon and your controller and screen both have super long cables running to it. Except the cables are…

I’m hoping that the crowd-play feature will entice some streamers to play with their viewers who will then buy the game and increase the overall player count. If the right streamers pick it up, then this game could take off.

Just in case there’s a misunderstanding, a Stadia pro subscription will let you play the game for “free”, but you can just buy the game for 10 bucks and not worry about stadia pro at all. So in your scenario, you could buy the game for yourself, your wife, and your friends at $10 a pop and force them to play it with…

For anyone interested in this that doesn’t have a weird hate boner for Stadia, you can sign up for a month of the pro service for free, and play this game for free.

We need to change the conversation on Tom Nook to one of celebration.
In every game, this man(raccoon) gives you a home FOR FREE. All he asks is that you pay him back for it if you want an even better home. Even if you view this as a loan, it’s a zero percent interest, zero penalty loan. He never mentions it again…

That’s great!

Is it going free to play on all platforms? I’d like to pick it up on the Switch, especially if I can move my progress from PC over.

You could literally play it for free right now on your PC. It’s free to Stadia Pro subscribers, and they’re giving away a month of Pro for free. What’s there to lose?

Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed, and Watch Dogs are all launching same day on Stadia as well. I know, I know...

Seriously, cancel culture is getting way out of hand. You can’t even slowly murder people in broad daylight with your hands in your pockets anymore!