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Founder’s Editions and Premiere Editions will be sent on a first-come, first-served basis



When Google announced that its Stadia cloud gaming service would launch November 19th, we thought that meant those who shelled out $130 for a Founder’s Edition would get to play right away — and when the company announced it was replacing the sold-out Founder’s Edition with a new Premiere Edition earlier today, the question was: would Premiere Edition buyers get to play on November 19th too?

Today, Google tells The Verge that neither set of buyers will necessarily be able to play at 9AM PT on November 19th, the moment that Stadia launches, because Google’s shipping out kits in the order they were received, and the new Premiere Edition apparently won’t have shipped by that date.

Google pointed us at its blog post from last week and sure enough, it technically says that Founder’s Editions will only “start arriving” on November 19th — and that you might only get to play starting at 9AM PT that day if “you were one of the first gamers who pre-ordered.”

This means that if you ordered a $130 Founder’s Edition more recently (which gets you the Founder’s Edition-only dark blue controller pictured above, a coveted “Founder’s badge” on your account, the ability to gift a three-month pass to a friend, and a chance to secure a unique Stadia username), you might not get it on day one.

You might not have too long to wait, though — Google tells us it’s expecting both the Founder’s Editions and Premiere Editions to be delivered within the first two weeks of launch. And that looks likely, based on the messages we see when we try to order a Premiere Edition right now. Google’s online store shows that if you order a Premiere Edition today, it should ship sometime in November even if you don’t pay for expedited shipping.

Google says you might have to wait to play Stadia, even if you preorder

Founder’s Editions and Premiere Editions will be sent on a first-come, first-served basis

www.theverge.com

 

[FranXico]

 

[HeresJohnny]

Making the customer wait is not the way to launch a fledgling console.

 

[newtypepilot]

they have to tweak the negative latency in space time continuum in order to make more units

 

[Coflash]

Making the customer wait is not the way to launch a fledgling console.

I have a feeling Stadia customers will be doing a lot of waiting - best to get used to it early on

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Google says you might have to wait to play Stadia, even if you preorder

Founder’s Editions and Premiere Editions will be sent on a first-come, first-served basis

www.theverge.com

-Keeping waiting to the costumers... EVEN IF HAVE A PRE-ORDER.

- making a suscription and pay online only to... Stream Games only PAYING!!!

- Sucription with requeriments forced.

- Games arent not for you... actually you are rent the games actually?

- If the service is offline... you cannot playing your games???

- Google could be a great search tool of internet... but in Products are mediocre
-

 

[FranXico]

Input lag
Stream lag
Delivery lag

Makes sense

 

[Fake]

Please wait.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

PS4 tagline: "Greatness Awaits"

Stadia tagline: "Just Wait"

 

[New Yorks Finest]

PS4 tagline: "Greatness Awaits"

Stadia tagline: "Just Wait"

You forgot the main one that matters most out of the 2...

Microsoft tag: " eats monsters for breakfast "

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Can't even deliver on the promise of making a gateway to streaming available.

What does that say about making anything else available, like games, players and servers?

 

[Tesseract]

i'd have more faith in stadia if 5g infrastructure was stable

i'm hopeful google sticks to it for the long run

question to those more in the know: can i use an xbox one controller with this? i have no interest in whatever shit controller they put out

 

[ZeroGravity]

This has pretty much become my default reaction whenever I see or hear the word "Stadia."

 

[LOLCats]

they have to tweak the negative latency in space time continuum in order to make more units

its quite clear they are not harnessing the manufacturing power of the cloud.

 

[AntsaK2]

 

[Keihart]

Wait a minute....streaming service=having to wait for hardware to arrive before playing? something doesn't add up here

 

[Woo-Fu]

Making the customer wait is not the way to launch a fledgling console.

Are you sure? Nintendo has worked magic with "supply constraints" in the past.

 

[alife]

 

[Pallas]

 

[CyberPanda]

You guys are really mean to Phil Harrison.

 

[Barakov]

To be fair, even if you have a stadia you're still going to have to wait periodically. This thing is going to buffer like a motherfucker.

 

[alife]

To be fair, even if you have a stadia you're still going to have to wait periodically. This thing is going to buffer like a motherfucker.

 

[caffeware]

niintendo enters the chat?

 

[ZywyPL]

Input lag
Stream lag
Delivery lag

Makes sense

Let me introduce you to... the Google Lagia!

 

[dottme]

Wait a minute....streaming service=having to wait for hardware to arrive before playing? something doesn't add up here

mu exact reaction. You dont own the hardware anymore but you need to wait for it. What about the people with a pixel phone, can they play with it?

 

[Zero7]

Just a cover up, what it's really all about is Google haveno faith in the infrastructure.

 

[Xaero Gravity]

V Voost Kain and I are taking ova!

The Slaydia™ Hype Train will be departing shortly, hop on board now or get left in the dust and be forever mocked

 

[CJY]

Google Stadia: Access your games whenever and wherever you want!*
















*As long as you wait until we say so.

 

[ShirAhava]

The "real" Stadia is at least five years out. Have fun paying to beta test this POS.

 

[Spukc]

People eager hate.
Let's wait until the damn console/service is live.
So we can see some fieldwork

Like compare 4k uhd discs with netflix 4k streaming.

Even if i cancelled my preorder i am curious

 

[j0hnnix]

Those who pre-ordered have to wait like you have to wait for your input to register. They're just preparing their user base.

 

[FMXVII]

Train wrecks in slow motion ain't got shit on this.

 

[jufonuk]

DoA?

Or not

I’m not an analyst how would I know.

 

[Heinrich]

bitch please.. with EVERY console in the past there ALWAYS have been supply constraints. this is nothing new and has nothing to do with cloud or something

 

[Imtjnotu]

They are buffering all the games now so you don't get you first lag experience until December 1st

 

[Imtjnotu]

bitch please.. with EVERY console in the past there ALWAYS have been supply constraints. this is nothing new and has nothing to do with cloud or something

LOL so these controller constraints are real

 

[Chairman Tickles]

Hey if you pre-order from google of all companies you deserve what's coming to you.

 

[MadYarpen]

Stadia threads are becoming like Fallout 76 threads. Very enjoyable to read, but for wrong reasons.


Stadia OT | Console 76

 

[The Scrivener]

-Keeping waiting to the costumers... EVEN IF HAVE A PRE-ORDER.

- making a suscription and pay online only to... Stream Games only PAYING!!!

- Sucription with requeriments forced.

- Games arent not for you... actually you are rent the games actually?

- If the service is offline... you cannot playing your games???

- Google could be a great search tool of internet... but in Products are mediocre
-

You forgot some:

- 240p/360p

- Jank

- "Stadia"

 

[The Scrivener]

Stadia threads are becoming like Fallout 76 threads. Very enjoyable to read, but for wrong reasons.


Stadia OT | Console 76

I've said it before, but my God I'm looking forward to that OT. I haven't been this hyped for a hardware release since forever. The threads, the shitstorm cometh.

 

[Xaero Gravity]

DoA?

Or not

I’m not an analyst how would I know.

I'm the world's first analyst/therapist. An analrapist if you will. And in my professional opinion, Google has absolutely nothing to worry about.
Here's my card.

 

[gela94]

Off to a good start.

 

[jufonuk]

I'm the world's first analyst/therapist. An analrapist if you will. And in my professional opinion, Google has absolutely nothing to worry about.
Here's my card.

I just blue myself

 

[Xaero Gravity]

I just blue myself

Noice, me too.

 

[Wolfgang Jr]

Let me introduce you to... the Google Lagia!

Jesus, even without the pun, it's a WAY better sounding name. Google are such fuckups.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

So what is the wait for? OnLive was a thing back in 2008 or something.

 

[DESTROYA]

Wait for something no one is asking for? Why....nobody cares about Stadia.

 

[Rean no Kiseki]

A free preview to the Stadia experience, in written form!

 

[HeresJohnny]

Let me introduce you to... the Google Lagia!

LOL at first I thought you wrote Labia

 

[Hotspurr]

I just feel bad for all the people who will drop money on this only for Google to kill it 6 months later.

Seriously, stop pre ordering anything unless there are journalist reviews. Companies need to learn that consumers won't fall for advertising and hype and will actually wait to see if what they put out is good. Of course also find journalistic sources with integrity that haven't been seduced.