[horsawlarway]

Gaming rigs don't cost 3k.

You can get a great machine for under the price of the latest iPhone.

And at least for most games - I'd MUCH rather deal with lower graphics than latency. Latency makes games not fun. And I'm not even talking about intense actions games... I mean any game that's not turn-based (and sometimes - even those are not fun if latency starts hitting ~200-500ms).

Assuming your rig lasts 5 years, you're almost certainly better off just buying it outright at $800, than paying google $10 dollars a month for 5 years for vaporware. Plus at the end of it, you likely still have a perfectly functional computer, more than capable of handling basic mail/web/videos, or serving content (I have machines going back 18 years sitting on the dirt in my basement serving content).

[mminer237]

Plus you can play more than the ~100 games Google's hand-picked to play on their platform.

[xxs]

you can buy a decent system that runs the games better than stadia under $1k. you need 6600xt ($330), 16MB ram ($50), virtually any cpu ($150), motherboard $120, SSD - $80. That leaves you >250 for case, keyboard and mouse.

[MauranKilom]

> 16MB ram ($50)

An amusing typo :)

[barbazoo]

No one would ever need that much RAM.

[xxs]

true that