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You're glossing over the 30 gig download and install.

If your internet connection is fast enough to use Stadia, downloading a 30gb game probably isn't a big deal.

Out of curiosity, I opened up Steam and downloaded the game to see how long it would take. I started the download at 12:36PM and it completed at 12:43PM, so it took ~7 minutes, with Steam reporting peak speeds of 83.2MB/s download (fast.com reported 960mbps before I started the download). I think the download might have even been limited by my hard drive since my Steam library is on a regular old HDD rather than an SSD.

You can stream games on a 25 Mbps connection if your latency is low enough. Now imagine downloading not a 30GB, but a 90GB game, and on this 25Mbps connection instead of your 960Mbps one.

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