Analyst forecasts: It could be expensive for Google's gaming service | 6:04:19

The technology giant Google is again in direct competition with Apple with its new streaming service: This time, the focus is on the customers of the gaming market. With the new speculation on prices, Stadia could now receive more attention.

Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, recently launched its own video game streaming service. Google Stadia will be in direct competition with Apple's recently announced Arcade games offer. Until now, no price was known for both service products.

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In some circumstances, Lewis Ward, an badyst at International Data Corporation (IDC), made an estimate, said the GamingBolt website. He therefore estimates a subscription with a monthly deduction of 15 US dollars. To justify this sum, Google should offer its players at least 500 games from the beginning of the service. In addition, 50 new games should be added every month – that's what it considers a realistic offer. However, the forecast is difficult because the company has to take into account many factors: "You have to make badumptions about the adoption by the customers, the infrastructure costs and the development studios ready to pay per user or per minute of use, develop a growing Stadia scenario, "Lewis told GamingBolt.

Contested game market

Compared to Yves Guillemot, the boss of Gamespot Ubisoft has probably formulated another hypothesis: it badumes that Google will offer its future players different options. In comparison, for example, the already established game library of Sony, Playstation Now. There are prices between 20 and 10 US dollars to be found, while this provider 600 games are available. Thus, if Google goes directly with a wide range of games, the price in the middle could attract many customers for many new games. Google will probably present a catalog of games available this summer. However, Google Stadia may be ideally positioned to make players beat their hearts up to the official launch: the internet giant has even opened its own development studio – Stadia Games and Entertainment – and can count on one of the prominent leaders of Raymond Jade.

Strong competition for Apple

At the same time, the details of the newly launched Apple Arcade competing game service are still unknown. Google's video game service could currently attract much more attention. Competition in the gaming market is fueled by the technology giant and could make the launch of Apple Arcade more difficult.

Editors finanzen.ch