Digital Foundry seem positive. I think I might be at the age where I can’t absorb info on new stuff :/
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-has-geforce-now-quietly-killed-google-stadia
Geforce Now has been free on Shield TV devices. I wonder if that’s still the case going forward.
Users of the Stadia subreddit post most frequently on the GoogleHome subreddit and least frequently on RelationshipAdvice (lol)
rei
1879
90 day free founders trial
Yeah I signed up, nothing to lose, and I can use (most) of my existing library. Really makes Stadia look even worse on paper, though at the moment I still have zero experience actually using either service.
The only major downside I’ve heard of for Geforce Now, is that the latency can be really dodgy depending on where you are, as they presumably rent datacentre infrastructure from someone, rather than owning their own. Everything else sounds like it’s good though.
So basically a weird inversion of Stadia, where it sounds like the streaming is mostly fine, but everything else is an underwhelming mess.
So if I get this right Geforce Now is just to let you stream your own digital games library using their machines for the monthly fee? They aren’t trying to “sell” games like Stadia?
rei
1883
Minus EA, Rockstar, Square games
Yes, but not every publisher is on board (yet), so not every game works.
Curious how cheap of a laptop I could get and hook to my tv so I can play steam games on my big screen. I wonder how well this will work on my kids school chromebook
It’s probably the only way you can play (half way decent) games on a Chromebook.
So I can just buy whatever (minus those publishers, of course) on Steam, and just because it’s in my library I can play it on this GN thing? It isn’t running off any hardware I have at home?
Just reading up on GeForce Now now.
You can try GeForce Now for free too. You are limited to an hour of game time before they put you on a waiting list. But presumably all of the service’s features are unlocked.
I’m looking for a list of supported games, but it’s probably just as easy to sign up and see for myself what’s available in the app. I play mostly indie-ish or classic games, so I’m expecting a lot will not be supported.
jsnell
1889
How about moving this discussion to a separate thread? GeForce Now
rei
1890
“Free tier to be available within MONTHS.”
Keep fucking up, Google.
KevinC
1892
RIM, Anthem, Stadia. You seem to have a thing for kicking things in their death throes. :)
stusser
1893
Yes, Rei is best known for selling camping and recreational outdoor gear, but recently his attention turned more to schadenfraud.
I just coined that, pretty proud of it.
