I’ve got their GEFORCE 5050 RTX card here and so far its overpriced junk. $200 and the drivers don’t even work I’ve been struggling with it 2 and a half days. It almost broke my PC installation. At least I got my PC working again without it but so far its been an expensive paperweight
Typical capitalism. At least there are other competitors. I hope AMD and Intel can take advantage of this news and undercut Nvidia maybe.
Nono, they raise prices with parity such that they’re still technically minimally cheaper.
That being said, I don’t think AMD and Intel have similar game streaming services. It’s pretty much GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud streaming as the big dogs.
Do we need cloud streaming? Honestly.
Do we need it? I’m not sure, but I am sure that all things cloud is an inevitability.
Its never enough. Its called unlimited growth. Its why most of us aren’t going to live until our natural death age, but will likely perish due to environmental factors like extreme weather, plague, famine, etc. Its gonna start sucking at around 3C.
Nein! - Doch! - Ohh!
Of course a new service only stays cheap until they reached critical mass. Same with gamepass and every subscription services. That’s why I try to subscribe to as little as possible. Oh, btw Netflix does again increase prices too.
Man everybody’s hiking up prices. Where’s the money gonna come from to pay these, though? Considering thanks to inflation a lot of us have to use that money for more important things like… food.
People are still paying these prices. All industries are booming. Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour made like $750M. Most countries went overboard on stimulus spending during covid. To the tune of trillions of dollars. That money is still slowly making its way into the economy. I think it will take years to normalise. In the mean time, US debt is at $33T and climbing fast, meaning we should expect QE at some time in the future, exacerbating inflation further.
The prescribed solution to this mess is crystal clear: higher taxes AND reduced spending. Both. At the same time. Very important. Otherwise we should expect inflation and rates to remain high for the foreseeable future.
But line has to go up
Price increases seem inevitable for any service where a company licenses content to stream to customers. GeForce Now is going to be in a constant cycle of content agreements expiring and creators wanting more money, that extra cost gets passed on to customers. Contrast that with just buying a game, buy it once and you’re done (generally.)
I don’t use the service, but I believe you bring and install your own games. They’re just offering a remote computer.
At least, last I checked.
I believe back when it was in beta a good few years ago, it was a remote PC, but now it’s only whatever games are on the service, with more added about every week via licensing them. You do, however, bring your own games, that part is right, just you can only play the ones you own that are licensed to be run on it.
That would have changed within the last 6 months then, we had it then and as far as I know it was just a remote pc
its been like that for a good while now, I remember when I first tried geforce now playing cod 2019, then at work I wanted to setup my classes during lunch and it was gone, turned out blizzard/activision got mad that nvidia was letting people play their game even though you had to own the game so they pulled it off the service
Back when it was free for shield users, it was game streaming
Now I just get ads on my shield for a bunch of new releases I can buy for streaming on it
Gamestream (remote pc) was something else but I guess it’s incorporated into it now
Ah I didn’t understand that. That’s almost worse though, that’s buying the game and then paying to play it.
It’s renting a computer but it doesn’t actually work like that since shitty publishers can get force them to not allow you to download your bought games on rented computers.
subscriptions == Corpo tax for the plebs
What a dumb article title
Their 6.2b profit wasn’t from GeForce Now, it was from their overpriced GPU’s.
Products are priced based on their cost/value, not the companies overall profit margins
And game streaming is such a profitable market segment too. I mean look at how well Stadia is doing.
They failed because no one could trust them. I never bought into it at all because I knew one day they’d shut it down, and they did.
Google ruined their reputation, and people are going to have a tough time buying into anything they release. I really only buy their phones and use their services that I am not tied into, such as YouTube, Maps, Translate, etc. All of their services where I am buying things, or hosting my data, I jumped shipped a couple years ago.
I mean shit, I bought their Google WiFi and they just straight up fucked all their users and released their Nest WiFi, pretending the Google WiFi doesn’t exist.
Most normal users don’t view Google like this,
I work retail and customers don’t think this thoroughly about Google or any other brands really
Pretty much everyone I know refuses to buy into anything Google releases now. Not because they are tired of losing money or support, but they hate having to try and move their stuff over to a different service.
The average user won’t care about firmware updates or that they lost a few bucks, but they hate when they need to figure out how to move their music over to Spotify or lose the ability to cloud print.
