This seems like such a strange move for a GPU maunfacturer. It seems like the sole purpose of these services is to eliminate the need to buy a GPU. I guess in effect they're renting you a GPU, but...
This seems like such a strange move for a GPU maunfacturer. It seems like the sole purpose of these services is to eliminate the need to buy a GPU. I guess in effect they're renting you a GPU, but at only $5/mo that's the equivalent to buying a $300 GPU once every 5 years. I suppose that's about average for PC gamers, but with all the extra overhead of servers, hosting, maintenance, etc, nvidia is making far less than that. I dunno, the math just doesn't seem sane even for a company like google, whose business involves owning huge datacenters everywhere already. For a GPU mfgr to be doing this just seems like shooting yourself in the foot.
Anyway, makes me wonder if I can somehow disguise a bitcoin miner as a steam game.
That may be, but the people who spend $5/month on entertainment is a much larger audience than people who spend $300 on a GPU ever. In other words, they're doing this to chase a different...
I guess in effect they're renting you a GPU, but at only $5/mo that's the equivalent to buying a $300 GPU once every 5 years.
That may be, but the people who spend $5/month on entertainment is a much larger audience than people who spend $300 on a GPU ever.
In other words, they're doing this to chase a different audience, which is something nVidia has been trying to do for ages now. That was the whole point of coming up with their Tegra SoCs. They've been trying to get their tech into consoles for decades since it's a huge market, but it's been some really mixed success staying relevant as new consoles become released and AMD is arguably beating them in that market right now. nVidia kind of lucked out that Nintendo went for portability for their flagship console and it happened to line up with the winding down of their Tegra efforts.
This is why we can't have nice things. Anyways, some people have a library of Steam games and don't want to upgrade a PC, and if consumer internet does better than consumer hardware, I could see...
Anyway, makes me wonder if I can somehow disguise a bitcoin miner as a steam game.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Anyways, some people have a library of Steam games and don't want to upgrade a PC, and if consumer internet does better than consumer hardware, I could see this taking off. Its the same logic of buying a car vs taking an Uber to work.
Used the beta quite extensively to play MTG:Arena on my macbook. Worked really well, however there was quite a bit of latency involved still. But German third-world grade internet connection...
Used the beta quite extensively to play MTG:Arena on my macbook. Worked really well, however there was quite a bit of latency involved still. But German third-world grade internet connection certainly takes a huge toll on anything latency related, so I assume it would work much better on a proper connection.
If you have a gaming pc running windows at home, you could do the same with Steam or Parsec as well, from your local network. When I was hooked on MTG:Arena, I used Steam to play remotely on my phone.
If you have a gaming pc running windows at home, you could do the same with Steam or Parsec as well, from your local network.
When I was hooked on MTG:Arena, I used Steam to play remotely on my phone.
Ars Technica's article about GeForce Now is good, and includes a lot of detail: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/nvidia-has-shaken-up-the-netflix-for-games-model-with-its-challenge-to-stadia/
I played around with the beta, no complaints here, especially compared to Stadia's anemic offerings.
This seems like such a strange move for a GPU maunfacturer. It seems like the sole purpose of these services is to eliminate the need to buy a GPU. I guess in effect they're renting you a GPU, but at only $5/mo that's the equivalent to buying a $300 GPU once every 5 years. I suppose that's about average for PC gamers, but with all the extra overhead of servers, hosting, maintenance, etc, nvidia is making far less than that. I dunno, the math just doesn't seem sane even for a company like google, whose business involves owning huge datacenters everywhere already. For a GPU mfgr to be doing this just seems like shooting yourself in the foot.
Anyway, makes me wonder if I can somehow disguise a bitcoin miner as a steam game.
That may be, but the people who spend $5/month on entertainment is a much larger audience than people who spend $300 on a GPU ever.
In other words, they're doing this to chase a different audience, which is something nVidia has been trying to do for ages now. That was the whole point of coming up with their Tegra SoCs. They've been trying to get their tech into consoles for decades since it's a huge market, but it's been some really mixed success staying relevant as new consoles become released and AMD is arguably beating them in that market right now. nVidia kind of lucked out that Nintendo went for portability for their flagship console and it happened to line up with the winding down of their Tegra efforts.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Anyways, some people have a library of Steam games and don't want to upgrade a PC, and if consumer internet does better than consumer hardware, I could see this taking off. Its the same logic of buying a car vs taking an Uber to work.
This seems like a decent article that tries to look at what Nvidia is doing with GeForce Now from a business and strategy perspective: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/357593/GeForce_Now_Nvidia_implements_aggressive_pricing_to_consolidate_cloud_gaming_position.php
Used the beta quite extensively to play MTG:Arena on my macbook. Worked really well, however there was quite a bit of latency involved still. But German third-world grade internet connection certainly takes a huge toll on anything latency related, so I assume it would work much better on a proper connection.
If you have a gaming pc running windows at home, you could do the same with Steam or Parsec as well, from your local network.
When I was hooked on MTG:Arena, I used Steam to play remotely on my phone.
Ars Technica's article about GeForce Now is good, and includes a lot of detail: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/nvidia-has-shaken-up-the-netflix-for-games-model-with-its-challenge-to-stadia/