This is going to take a lot of work...Stadia's launch plagued with missing features, sparse game selection, and unplayable lag

When Google announced Stadia, their first-to-market (if you don't count Sony's PlayStation Now) video game streaming service, there were lots of questions. What would its subscription model look like? What would its game selection look like? What features would the service have? Could even Google get the thing to work? And would Google stick with Stadia for the long haul, even if it wasn't an instant hit at launch?

Well, we now have the answers to those questions, and they're... un-good. One might even call them double-plus un-good. Let's break it down.

PlayStation Now streaming service available today on Windows PCs

From TechCrunch:

You don’t need a PlayStation to play PlayStation games anymore: Sony’s Playstation Now subscription-based game streaming service is now out for PC, and you an grab the app and start playing some of PlayStation’s best legacy titles immediately if you’ve got a Windows machine.

It’ll cost you, of course – but not as much as you would’ve paid for the games available individually. A 12-month subscription to PlayStation Now will run you $99.99 as part of a limited-time promotion to celebrate the PC launch. Normally, a PS Now subscription will run you more than double that.

The $100 doesn't include a Dual Shock controller, naturally, which you'll need to buy separately, so you're actually looking at closer to $150 to try this for a year ($200 CAD), but the list of games is impressive. It includes Journey, for one thing, which I've always wanted to try, but not enough to buy a PS3; now I can try it, for about the cost of a PS3*.

Yeah... Hype, people. Never believe the hype.

For those keeping track, this is Sony, who are winning the current-gen console contest with Microsoft and Nintendo, now wanting to see PlayStation Now on Windows PCs because that's the money is. Just like Microsoft did with XBox Live, after admitting that we probably weren't ever going to see another console generation from Microsoft's direction, just PC-like updates of the XBox One. That just leaves Nintendo to pretend that console gaming economics still make sense, after announcing that they'd stopped production on Wii U entirely, and with NX not actually announced yet.

Yes, folks, this really is the last console generation. Sony will keep making boxes with the PlayStation logo on them, just like Microsoft will keep shipping XBoxes, and Nintendo will ship whatever their next thing is actually going to be called when that time comes, but the writing really is on the wall, and it's really not that hard to read.

* It is possible to pay $19.99 a month, instead, and there's also a free 7-day trial for people that are willing to give Sony their CC numbers, because apparently people still fall for that one. Personally, I will be giving this a miss.