Nvidia announces Geforce Now for PC and Mac

This service will deliver PC gaming on demand, with a release date in March 2017 for early adopters with a price of $25 per month for 20 hours of gameplay.
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Lol, no thanks. Also does that mean they intend to raise the price in the future? Nvidia you may be able to slap premium prices on your products because you have no competition for over half a year, but you have plenty of competition in the online games library segment. I don't even know who their target audience is, people in their late twenties with a demanding job and three kids at home?
 
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No way in hell I'd pay that much for games that I probably wouldn't touch with a ten foot pike pole
Tell them they're dreaming
 
So this is the streaming service? similar to the now extinct onlive service?

I can see why it would cost more (you're paying for the hardware it's being run on afterall) but that's still hellishly expensive...
 
Considering you need to own the game, you'd be better saving that subscription money and spending it on a better gpu if yours can't run the games, if you're serious about playing a game 20 hours is nothing
 
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This service will deliver PC gaming on demand, with a release date in March 2017 for early adopters with a price of $25 per month for 20 hours of gameplay.
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Lol, no thanks. Also does that mean they intend to raise the price in the future? Nvidia you may be able to slap premium prices on your products because you have no competition for over half a year, but you have plenty of competition in the online games library segment. I don't even know who their target audience is, people in their late twenties with a demanding job and three kids at home?
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Lol, that is just insane... $25 per month for early adoptors, for 20 hours of gameplay?.

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Considering you need to own the game, you'd be better saving that subscription money and spending it on a better gpu if yours can't run the games, if you're serious about playing a game 20 hours is nothing
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Lol, you'd barely gotten into a new game when those hours are up.
 
SO theoretically if you gamed 3 hours a day thats $100 a month. So 4 months and you could buy a 1070
 
Interesting idea, but you'd never be able to play any somewhat competative fps game with the amount of latency you would get having to stream games over the internet. I guess it would work for single player games though.
 
Well if I ever get so old that I can only game for an hour a day and take a few days off at the end of the month I will consider it. Not.

There are energy drinks made specially for gamers. Imagine how much it would suck to guzzle one of those down and then play for an hour :D

This is ridiculous. Just utterly ridiculous. 20 hours a month?!?!?! do they really think they have sold that many 1080s to people who game for less than an hour a day?
 
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$25 per month for 20 hours of gameplay.

The main story of Alien Isolation takes around 25 hours to complete if you take your time or around 13 hours if you REALLY rush it and take risks ingame.

The average time of completing the main story and the DLC's is around 23 hours or if you really take your time it's around 40 hours.

Source

Alien Isolation costs $10.00 from various keysites and is easier to run than Tetris.
 
Everyone is looking at this wrong.

The idea is aimed at those who do not have the PC to play modern games. Now the investment alone for a decent gaming rig is huge. Then what if you decide that it's just not for you?

The idea of giving these people access to ultimately a try before you buy rental scheme is great. Anyone who isn't a gamer will probably take a while to use those 20 hours, and if it is something they go on to enjoy, they will likely choose to build/buy their own rig, and what's better for nvidia is that rig will likely feature an nvidia GPU as that is what they have been using in the cloud.

I can see this being a worthwhile investment by nvidia to bring more people to the PC gaming market, which will ultimately make them a lot of money if it succeeds
 
TBH Kil these days you could probably get six month's worth of gaming for free just if you bought a PC tbh. Well, free or next to nothing (thanks to Humblebundle and Origin's on the house).

So the £500 or so investment would pay for itself pretty quickly.
 
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Everyone is looking at this wrong.

The idea is aimed at those who do not have the PC to play modern games. Now the investment alone for a decent gaming rig is huge. Then what if you decide that it's just not for you?

The idea of giving these people access to ultimately a try before you buy rental scheme is great. Anyone who isn't a gamer will probably take a while to use those 20 hours, and if it is something they go on to enjoy, they will likely choose to build/buy their own rig, and what's better for nvidia is that rig will likely feature an nvidia GPU as that is what they have been using in the cloud.

I can see this being a worthwhile investment by nvidia to bring more people to the PC gaming market, which will ultimately make them a lot of money if it succeeds
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Yes it's not for people like us.

It's targeted at console gamers to get them away from the dirty consoles...lol

#PCMR.....lol
 
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