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Game Streaming Services - Stadia, Geforce Now, xCloud, PS Now
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Crone
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Oh dang! Now I kind of want a nVidia Shield, but have no reason for one.More competition out of beta: Geforce Now.
Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service challenges Google Stadia at $5 a month
Stream your existing library of PC games — with some omissions.www.theverge.com
Today, the company’s finally ready to let North America and Europe sign up to pay for its GeForce Now service, starting at $5 a month, while also offering unlimited one-hour free trials that don’t even require a credit card....Unlike Google, Sony, and Microsoft’s offerings, Nvidia has a very different pitch. It’s your existing library of PC games that you can now play anywhere, instead of having to buy new games and / or subscribe to a Netflix-like catalog. Nvidia supports Steam, the Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay, and it runs instances of each for you in the cloud. You can log into your accounts, download many of your existing purchases near-instantly to your cloud desktop, sync your old save games, and pick up where you left off in a couple of minutes at most — no patches necessary.
Ukerric
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Note highlighted word.
There's two steps to be done there:
Step 1: Find the game on Nvidia's catalog for the service
Step 2: Launch the game which will require you to login into your store account
The trick is that Nvidia has pre-installed copies for those games from the stores ready to launch. However, if Nvidia hasn't installed its copy, then you can't play it.
This is still better than Stadia's "the devs have to make a specific Stadia version for us to stream", but don't expect to find every single game from Steam there. Notably your dating sims
Nvidia’s GeForce Now is losing all Activision Blizzard games, a bad sign for cloud gaming
No more Overwatch, WoW or Call of Duty, among others.
www.theverge.com
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Is it though?Nvidia’s GeForce Now is losing all Activision Blizzard games, a bad sign for cloud gaming
No more Overwatch, WoW or Call of Duty, among others.
Activision jokes aside, losing access to games through these services is a major concern for people, and things like this will turn some people off. This is a different situation where the product isn't bought in the service, but if people buy games from the publisher specifically to use through Geforce Now (such a stupid fucking name) only to then have the ability to play it taken away... it's a shit situation.
Valderen
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It's not just Activision-Blizzard though, Capcom, EA, Konami, Remedy, Rockstar and Square-Enix have also pulled out after beta ended.
Looks like there won't be a lot left to use on Nvidia Now.
According to the article, no explanation on why, but it's speculating that they might want to get some money from the services with so much competition, or they might be planing their own cloud services.
Interesting story to follow for sure.
Looks like there won't be a lot left to use on Nvidia Now.
According to the article, no explanation on why, but it's speculating that they might want to get some money from the services with so much competition, or they might be planing their own cloud services.
Interesting story to follow for sure.
meStevo
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xCloud testing comes to iOS
Because of restrictions w/ Apples app testing program it's really limited, may have to cycle through people and only has 1 game (Halo: MCC) right now.
Project xCloud iOS testing is starting its first test flight
Microsoft has started to rollout Project xCloud on iOS, officially bringing the livestreaming service outside of its Android exclusivity. “We’ve been testing an iOS client internally, and today, we’re taking the next step by making the Project xCloud preview available for iOS users through the...
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Because of restrictions w/ Apples app testing program it's really limited, may have to cycle through people and only has 1 game (Halo: MCC) right now.
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meStevo
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Five more games available on Project xCloud preview for Android
Those who have been testing out the Project xCloud preview on Android will be pleased to know that five more games are now available for all testers to enjoy.
mspoweruser.com
- A Plague Tale
- Cities Skylines
- Age of Wonders Planetfall
- Mudrunner
Steamworld games coming to Stadia - Google’s Stadia adds four SteamWorld games to its lineup
- SteamWorld Dig 2 and SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech will be available for Pro subscribers (aka people who forgot to unsubscribe) to claim for free
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Namon
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I really like the Nvidia model most of all. You still own the games. In fact you own them outside of the service itself. All Nvidia provides is the computational power for you to play when you are on a less than optimal set up. It really is the best of both worlds and I may look into it down the road. My friend has it and he's been showing me footage and it's really quite good on pretty much everything but a smart phone. Even his potato laptop runs shit really nicely. You do need a pretty beefy internet connection though.
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jooka
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The big downside to Nvidia Now is companies pulling games, was Activision/Blizzard last week, Bethesda today.
www.theverge.com
Bethesda follows Activision in pulling games from Nvidia’s GeForce Now
Another bad sign for the state of cloud gaming as GeForce Now loses another publisher.
www.theverge.com
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Give it a couple years and they'll all want their own streaming service like how video steaming is going
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