

Instead it’s almost perfectly suited for people who own outdated PCs or Macs but still want to play the hottest PC games. GeForce Now doesn’t seem to be aimed at tech enthusiasts or early adopters.

It’s effectively free, at least for an hour session at a time, but paying for the subscription ($4.99 per month, though Nvidia hasn’t settled on a long-term pricing model) gives you priority access to servers, ray tracing in games that support it, and up to 6-hour play sessions. But it also means only select games are supported. And because the games are cloud-based, there’s no updating or maintenance required. Instead, GeForce Now connects to your existing digital game libraries to verify if you own the games you want to play. Nvidia isn’t running a games store here, unlike Google’s Stadia service. That’s because it has a different tact – GeForce Now streams the PC games you already own. But GeForce Now might not need mindshare to win out over its competitors.
