Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home,

The Long Promised AMA, or listener Colin, questions episode.

I'm Brian McCullough, if I forgot to mention that.

This is actually more work to produce than a typical weekend episode where I just

turn on a mic and ask someone some dumb questions but if you all really enjoy this we can do it again

maybe every few months or so anyway no real need for any more preamble.

Let's just get right into it.

Hey Brian, this is Carl from Seattle.

I've been thinking about these online game streaming services. I participated with On Live back when they tried it several years ago.

I've played in the Google Beta when they put Assassin's Creed online.

And I found that these services work really well

to the point where I could play without any problems.

But the services don't really come up with a good business model for selling games.

Either they sell games at full price and then there's little benefit to using them if you have your

own gaming machine. Or they sell a subscription service that doesn't have a lot of the games you want to play.

Do you think Google has any plans to actually launch a service that would make

sense for consumers? So let me straight up point out that as I've said I don't have a super good grounding in the gaming world myself. I do play

games. I've got a Steam account, Twitch account, have had all of the consoles at one time or

another, dabble in Fortnite, etc.

But I'm not in a place where I sample all of these various offerings and experiments on the

regular.

But there are two things that stand out to me here. First, we like to talk a lot about these

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