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- Nvidia announced on Tuesday the full release of its GeForce Now game streaming service, which has been in beta for several years.
- GeForce Now will compete against other streaming services like Google Stadia. With that said, GeForce Now is geared towards PC gamers rather than console gamers, as GeForce Now supports PC games stores like Steam, Uplay, Epic, and Battle.net.
- Compared to Stadia, GeForce Now seems to have some major benefits, like a significantly larger games library. GeForce Now also won't require users to buy a game that they already own in one of the supported games stores.
- Also important, GeForce Now allows cross-play with players who aren't using GeForce, too.
- But unlike Google Stadia, GeForce Now has one glaring drawback: No 4K streaming.
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Nvidia announced on Tuesday that its GeForce Now game streaming service is out of beta and is available on full release for everyone.
The main gist of GeForce Now is that it lets you play PC games on a wide variety of devices, including desktops, laptops, mobile devices, Nvidia Shield streaming devices, and even Macs and low-power Chromebooks. The games themselves run on computers in Nvidia's cloud, and a game's video is streamed over the internet, much like a Netflix video.
It can easily be its own standalone service, or it can complement a PC gaming setup by bringing games to any device wherever there's a good internet connection. All-in-all, GeForce now is geared for those entrenched in PC gaming platform rather than console gaming, but many gamers play on both platforms.
If this idea sounds familiar, that's because numerous cloud game streaming services are beginning to emerge, like Google Stadia and Microsoft's Project Xcloud, and these nascent services pose have the potential to make a big impact on the gaming industry and how people play video games.
Check out all the relevant details you need to know about GeForce Now, and the main ways it's already better than Google's Stadia:
