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[Draugoth]

It seems that a bigger deal is lurking between Xbox and Nvidia, and its announcement may be imminent.

Several games from the Xbox store give the option to "play it with GeForce Now".

 

[Darko]

Nice.

 

[danklord]

Whoa. A reason to plug my Xbox in again.

 

[RaZoR No1]

Is MS killing xCloud?

 

[Magic Carpet]

Is MS killing xCloud?

Edit- Might be for the best, Everytime xCloud is mentioned on Neogaf, someone like clockwork makes a post saying Geforce now is better.

 

[Mr Moose]

But why?

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Is it a different service being added in parallel, or is it an agreement that combines and absorbs it with xCloud?

I guess I don't see why there needs to be two ways to do the same thing, within the same service.

 

[//DEVIL//]

I am not sure I get the point of this.

so if you are one of the few people that bought the game on Nvidia platform, you can play it remotely on xbox ?

is that assuming you don't have the game on PC xbox app store ? or Xbox ?

Maybe I am missing something here.

 

[Punished Miku]

Weird. Maybe now people can play Final Fantasy or something lol. I dont really get it yet.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Watch games having better latency than native games.

But why?

So people can play PC games without a PC.

 

[Spyxos]

Oh that's pretty cool. Geforce Now is like 10 times better than Xcloud.

But both services already have problems with the excessively long waiting times. This will certainly get even worse now.

 

[killatopak]

But why?

To prepare us for PS Plus.

 

[dem]

Now this is how you buy more publishers...

Cloud gaming a worry? Not so!
All cloud gaming is allowed on Xbox

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Watch games having better latency than native games.

Nope. Definitely not a thing.

 

[ManaByte]

I am not sure I get the point of this.

so if you are one of the few people that bought the game on Nvidia platform, you can play it remotely on xbox ?

is that assuming you don't have the game on PC xbox app store ? or Xbox ?

Maybe I am missing something here.

GeForce Now lets you stream your Steam games.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Nope. Definitely not a thing.

 

[Spyxos]

Nope. Definitely not a thing.

Didn't Doom have lower latency on Stadia than on consoles?

 

[Imtjnotu]

Too many clouds in one box. Going to end up looking like Florida at 2pm

 

[Crayon]

Well that's a little odd. Maybe they are stretching to sweeten the pot on game pass?

 

[Mr Moose]

Watch games having better latency than native games.


So people can play PC games without a PC.

You need to own the game first for this right? Why are people buying PC games without a PC or Now device?

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Didn't Doom have lower latency on Stadia than on consoles?

I dunno. But you can visually see the difference between local hardware running plugged into a TV or monitor vs cloud-streaming. Regardless of the statistics on latency.

 

[rodrigolfp]

You need to own the game first for this right? Why are people buying PC games without a PC or Now device?

Now people without a PC can buy PC games and play on GFN on XB.

 

[RaZoR No1]

Edit- Might be for the best, Everytime xCloud is mentioned on Neogaf, someone like clockwork makes a post saying Geforce now is better.

Because it is ...
Afaik in some cases Geforce Now has even better latency than playing natively on a console.

 

[Mr Moose]

Now people without a PC can buy PC games and play on GFW on XB.

Disgusting.jpg

 

[Spyxos]

I dunno. But you can visually see the difference between local hardware running plugged into a TV or monitor vs cloud-streaming. Regardless of the statistics on latency.

It's been a while, but I had Doom Eternal on the console and Stadia and I didn't notice much difference.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Xbox is becoming a PC.

It begins.

 

[Mr Moose]

Xbox is becoming a PC.

It begins.

It's becoming a streaming hub. Ew.

 

[Mister Wolf]

The PC hybrid era begins........

 

[Skifi28]

Now people without a PC can buy PC games and play on GFW on XB.

With a gamepad no less. How moist does that make you?

 

[Complistic]

Welcome Xbox gamers to the steam summer sale.

 

[TrippleA345]

pretty important news.

 

[feynoob]

You need to own the game first for this right? Why are people buying PC games without a PC or Now device?

Because modern games are hard to run on old devices. I bought my new graphic for that reason. Before, I had to rely on geforce now to play on high quality. Much better than my current set up.

 

[rodrigolfp]

With a gamepad no less. How moist does that make you?

Xbox supports and can support m&kb too for PC games on GFW.

 

[DenchDeckard]

It's becoming a streaming hub. Ew.

Yup! - Rank. I need native.

 

[Big Baller]

Team Green

 

[Esppiral]

Next Xbox with a 5090 confirmed

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

It's been a while, but I had Doom Eternal on the console and Stadia and I didn't notice much difference.

It's hard to describe but visually there's just this quality to cloud streaming that cannot be hidden from the player. Even with extremely reliable and fast internet and high-end cloud tech running it. Something unique to games vs video, and not something that happens when playing on local hardware.

 

[tmlDan]

xbox doing anything to try and make something stick huh lol

 

[Schmick]

I am not sure I get the point of this.

so if you are one of the few people that bought the game on Nvidia platform, you can play it remotely on xbox ?

is that assuming you don't have the game on PC xbox app store ? or Xbox ?

Maybe I am missing something here.

You'll be able to play games from your Steam, Epic Store and GOG.com libraries on your Xbox.

 

[Topher]

Wait.....so Geforce Now subscribers can play Steam games on Xbox?

 

[DenchDeckard]

I feel like this is a box ticking exercise from the FTC case. If they put Geforce now on Xbox it helps their case where they said they would be open to other streaming services.

Just a guess though.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Wait.....so Geforce Now subscribers can play Steam games on Xbox?

That would be awesome.

 

[Spyxos]

It's hard to describe but visually there's just this quality to cloud streaming that cannot be hidden from the player. Even with extremely reliable and fast internet and high-end cloud tech running it. Something unique games vs video, and not something that happens when playing on local hardware.

Did you use chromecast ? Or just over your browser? It did look a lot better for me on chromecast.

And I know what you mean about the streaming quality. I didn't notice it with doom. But very clearly with games like red dead redemption 2.

 

[Schmick]

Wait.....so Geforce Now subscribers can play Steam games on Xbox?

Hmmm having had a rethink there isn't any indication of a GeForce Now app only links from the MS store.

If there was an app for Xbox I'd presume you can play all the games that any GFN subscriber has access to. But if it's only through MS' store I'm not so sure.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Did you use chromecast ? Or just over your browser? It did look a lot better for me on chromecast.

I've done it many diffrent ways, yeah. It's just not something that is going away, at least not until some kind of new technological breakthrough comes along. At that point, consoles could start to be considered obsolete.

 

[Negotiator101]

When everyone plays, we all win.

 

[Topher]

Hmmm having had a rethink there isn't any indication of a GeForce Now app only links from the MS store.

If there was an app for Xbox I'd presume you can play all the games that any GFN subscriber has access to. But if it's only through MS' store I'm not so sure.

That's a good point. So could be that it is just Xbox games that are available for streaming on GFN? Not sure I get the point of that.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

When everyone plays, we all win.

Factual statement

 

[Darsxx82]

Wait.....so Geforce Now subscribers can play Steam games on Xbox?

If it were like that it would be great. But some clarification from MS is necessary. The terms are still unknown. In fact, if it wasn't because someone paid attention to this change, nothing would be known because there is no official information.

 

[Quasicat]

Now if only Sony would allow their games to run on GeForce now, I would be in on this.

I will admit, I use XCloud on my iPad and my friend uses GeForce Now and his stream always looks better.