While Nvidia’s cloud gaming offering is of a different flavour from what’s in the market currently it is definitely entering into competition with Google Stadia and to a lesser extent Microsoft xCloud and Sony’s PS4 PS Now offering. So I can see people getting confused when Nvidia asks you to “download the game” and then shows the regular steam install process.” Player Four has Entered the Game with Nvidia GeForce NOW Many users who have tested the service with fast internet connections are posting positive reviews, but it is clear that it is a product just out of beta as one Reddit who has tested the service notes that: “The interface is weird when you try to start the game, for example on steam there’s no special steam interface, it’s just regular steam… but on a server. Needless to say this is punishing on GPUs, but Nvidia has stated that: “Founders members will have instant access to RTX games.” One high-performance capability out of reach for many gamers is ray tracing which is the simulation of realistic lighting effects in a computer-constructed 3D environment. This will be appealing to PC gamers who have older machines that are not capable of running at high-performance.
