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Every time someone posts "Nobody wants cloud gaming" half a dozen people come in and say "Actually, I want cloud gaming"

Don't mistake the fact that you don't want cloud gaming for nobody wanting cloud gaming

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> Don't mistake the fact that you don't want cloud gaming for nobody wanting cloud gaming

Also don't mistake half a dozen people on a tech forum as being indicative of a mass audience that's commercially sustainable for something.

Especially given HN is rather prone to imagine a product as turning out in a utopian perfect way rather than the more realistic "compromised by the requirement to be economically plausible" one.

Not only that, but the pre-orders for Stadia were so intense that they couldn't hit day 1 deliveries with orders that were placed within hours of going on sale.

So clearly there are plenty of people who want this and are even willing to risk it being total crap at $130 each.

Were there lots of pre-ordered, or are they just launching slowly? The fact that pre-order customers can not invite friends immediately, who do not need hardware, suggests it is about limiting users to avoid overloading servers/support/ops.

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