The latency is incredible; the compression needs work.
Tom here again, and it’s time to talk about the biggest drawbacks to Nvidia’s GeForce Now service: game availability, pricing, and internet connectivity. Nvidia supports Steam and the Epic Games Store, but many games still aren’t available. Publishers like Bethesda and Activision Blizzardtitles are available. That’s a huge drawback for GeForce Now Ultimate, even if it’s the most impressive cloud gaming platform so far.
Pricing is also a block to experiencing whether GeForce Now Ultimate is for you. Google let you easily, but there’s no way to try out Nvidia’s best RTX 4080 experience without signing up for the $19.99 monthly subscription. That’s disappointing because I think a lot of people will be impressed with this new 240Hz mode or even running games at 120fps in 1440p or 4K resolution.
I suspect a lot of people will balk at $19.99 per month for game streaming, but I think there’s a lot of value here. If you built an equivalent PC, then you’re looking at $2,000 or more and then the energy costs for playing. A $2,000 PC over five years works out to around $33 a month, with electricity charges on top.
GeForce Now Ultimate won’t convince the most competitive and hardcore PC gamers to switch, but that’s not really the point of it. For everyone else, this feels like a compelling option if your games are there and you’re temporarily without a gaming PC or you don’t want to shell out thousands of dollars right now to upgrade.Image: Tom Warren / The VergeYou’ll need to be close to Nvidia’s servers and hope that they’ve been upgraded.
This new competitive mode will also eat up around 13GB of data an hour, so if you have an internet connection with data caps, then this probably isn’t the service for you. I tested GeForce Now Ultimate using a 1Gbps fiber connection with less than 5ms of latency to Nvidia’s EU West servers. It’s the perfect connection for game streaming, but a lot of people won’t have such luck with connectivity, so your mileage may well vary.
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