In case you missed it earlier, Nvidia launched its Geforce Now streaming service earlier this month, with both free, and $4.99/€5.49/£4.99 priced Geforce Now Founders options. The service is so far available in North America, Western Europe, Japan (via Softbank), Korea (via LGU+), and in Russia (via GFN.ru).
Unlike Google Stadia, and other similar streaming services, Nvidia streams the game from its servers to your favorite Windows PC, Mac, Nvidia Shield, and Android devices - Chrome OS support is incoming as well - but you actually have to own the game, rather than buy it from the service itself.
It also supports some gamepads, like Sony DualShock 4 controllers, Logitech Gamepad F310/F510/F710, and Microsoft Xbox 360 and Xbox One controller, as well as most built-in or USB keyboards and mice.
We had a chance to check out Nvidia Geforce Now and while it was limited 1080p at 60fps or 720p at 120fps, the service worked like a charm, and, according to Nvidia, you'll need 15Mbps for 720p and 25Mbps for 1080p streaming via Ethernet or 5GHz WiFi connection.
Over 1 million Geforce Now Founders users, 1500 new games incoming
According to the latest Nvidia blog post, there are over one million registered users, and those are Geforce Now Founders subscribers. Of course, all of those are running on a 90-day free trial period, so numbers can shift in the first three months, but, nevertheless, it is an impressive number considering the service launched just over two weeks ago.
All is not well in the Geforce Now world, as although there are "over hundreds" of PC games available on the service, and some of them even work with RTX, like Metro Exodus, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Deliver Us the Moon, some publishers/developers do not like the Geforce Now concept, and are pulling their games from the service, like Activision/Blizzard, and recently Bethesda (all except Wolfenstein: Youngblood game).
Unfortunately, these publishers/developers did not give any further explanation, but Nvidia did say there is an additional 1,500 games in its onboarding queue and has scored CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077, which will be available on Geforce Now and with RTX effects at launch.
Nvidia has a good thing going with Geforce Now and hopefully, the company will manage to keep filling the list with some big AAA titles, as well as expand support for Geforce Now to other regions.
