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I'm in the Nvidia Geforce NOW beta at the moment. It's fantastic. If you want to get in the beta it's running until early May. Invites are going out fairly quic
by DKnoll 7y ago
I'm in the Nvidia Geforce NOW beta at the moment. It's fantastic. If you want to get in the beta it's running until early May. Invites are going out fairly quick at the moment (a friend just got on with a one week wait).
Their pricing is not released yet (the beta is free with unlimited use, you just have to disconnect and reconnect every 3 or so hours), it might be hourly or monthly.
They do not provide the licenses for games, you just log into Steam (or one of the other publishers launcher you have your games on) and play any of the supported titles.
I am able to play every game (Conan Exiles, PUBG) I've thrown at it on max settings and the servers are peered very well so it's very low latency to my machine and also the game servers I am using.
It's crazy to be able to play modern games on ultra at 60+ fps with a near-native experience on a machine I built 10 years ago.
These streaming game platforms definitely have legs.
- Waterluvian 7y agoFinally something to justify my 250mbit connection. Going to try this out. Thanks for the suggestion.
- Nullabillity 7y agoJust as with any other X-as-a-service, it quickly becomes cheaper to just buy it outright than to rent it. And even if the pricing itself isn't that clear-cut, not having the constant stress of "I'm spending $x/h, I had better enjoy every minute of it" (or, on the flip side, "I'm already spending $x/mo, so I need to use it as much as possible") makes it a lot easier to enjoy the experience.
- DKnoll 7y agoIf you play games a lot it will quickly become cheaper to buy a high end PC. But if you're like me and only game a couple hours a week on average, it ends up being cheaper than getting a new top-of-the-line PC every 3 years to continue playing new games on max settings. Right now it's free.. can't get any cheaper than that. :P