What a dumb article title
Their 6.2b profit wasn’t from GeForce Now, it was from their overpriced GPU’s.
Products are priced based on their cost/value, not the companies overall profit margins
Products are priced based on their cost/value
Ah, yes and the world is full of rational actors with perfect information.
I think I saw somewhere that one could setup something similar using an AWS instance with a gaming GPU and some opensource app for the streaming part? Has someone tried that? How does it compare in terms of costs to NVidia’s GeForce Now?
There are some projects form a few years ago. Mostly using Parsec but there might be more, even open source, options in that area.
But all the DIY solutions will require you to have some knowledge in regards to public clouds. But all-in-all they shouldn’t be that expensive as they generally make use of cheap instances and automatic shutdowns. So you only pay for the time you are actually playing plus the storage.
One quick search showed https://github.com/badjware/aws-cloud-gaming but I can’t say anything about the working state of that repository. But it should be a good starting point.
Another link https://github.com/LGUG2Z/parsec-ec2
Nein! - Doch! - Ohh!
Of course a new service only stays cheap until they reached critical mass. Same with gamepass and every subscription services. That’s why I try to subscribe to as little as possible. Oh, btw Netflix does again increase prices too.
I still support buying a decent graphics card and a game rather than paying a subscription while also buying the game. Their basic plans costs 10 euro per month which is 240 euro for 2 years which is average cost for a decent gaming card. And best part is you own it. You can get NVIDIA 3060 for that amount. Which is amazing card.
89kr/month for Denmark. That’s 2136DKK for 2 years of continuous service. The cheapest RTX 3060 right now is 2199DKK. But guess what? I don’t have a tower pc. So I would need a CPU, memory, storage, case, PSU. I won’t bother putting together a system but if I search the web budget builds are set for around 800USD atm. That’d be around 5600DKK or more than 5 years of GeForce Now. Tbh I think it’s not a bad deal.
Besides, as a casual gamer I keep cancelling the service when I don’t need it. Right now I’m signed up because I enjoy starfield. I’ll probably unsubscribe when I’m done with that. Or at least over Christmas because I know I won’t have time to game.
Plus I love the flexibility of streaming to my TV, tablet, phone, laptop.
My biggest problem is that it’s neither possible to pirate games nor mod them. Shadow is the solution for that but it’s too expensive IMO.
