PC Game Pass is coming to GeForce Now
Xbox's huge video game catalogue service is coming to NVIDIA's GeForce Now.
Xbox Game Pass has been a massive hit since it released on console and then PC players got to tap into the huge catalogue. But now, the service is set to expand as it becomes available via NVIDIA’s GeForce Now.
Source: NVIDIA
During the mid-year video game announcement cycle, Sarah Bond, CVP and Game Creator Experience and Ecosystem at Xbox, revealed that users will be able to leverage GeForce Now to play games available through PC Game Pass.
“I’m thrilled to share with you that in the coming months you’re going to be able to play your PC Game Pass catalogue, leveraging GeForce Now,” Bond said in response to a question about cloud gaming updates. “You’re going to be able to do that on all the devices where GeForce Now is if it’s low-powered PCs or Macs or Chromebooks or mobile. We’re just thrilled to add that next awesome, awesome benefit for PC Game Pass members.”
Bond noted that this continued support of various platforms is part of Xbox’s commitment to bring together players across devices. This is a continuation of Xbox’s earlier update that allowed users to play their Xbox PC games with GeForce Now.
Xbox revealed a whole lot of games during its June 11 showcase and basically all of them are coming to Game Pass day one. This is good news for those with GeForce Now, as it means their library will be expanding alongside those who play on console and PC.
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replySam Chandler posted a new article, PC Game Pass is coming to GeForce Now
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I had to read another linked article to find out why I should care about this. I was confusing GeForce Now with the GeForce Experience junk. That being said, PC Game Pass does game streaming, is GeForce Now that much better? I assume it would still be run on Microsoft servers and function roughly equivalently. I'm not quite understanding what the draw here is.
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GFN is by far the best streaming service from a technical point of view but there are basically no games on it. NVIDIA was cowed into only allowing games that the developers opted into allowing on GFN, so there's nothing there. so this would be a pretty big increase in the game selection
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GFN is significantly better than XCloud. XCloud at its best is 1080p. GFN will do 4k HDR, 240fps, etc. It's SO MUCH better.
With that said, XCloud is the Xbox version of games and GFN is the PC version of games so there may be differences in what's available.
Anecdotally, GFN is an extremely responsive experience for me personally. Not quite responsive enough to play twitch games like rocket league but good enough that I effectively played Cyberpunk using a controller with it and it was pretty great.
On the other hand, XCloud has been a disaster for me. Laggy, low res, just bad. I just won't use it because it's nothing but frustrating. I try it again every few months to see if it's better yet and so far, nope. -
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Streaming services are completely beholden to the last mile. It doesn't matter how good your connection is, only how close you happen to be to a server. So for some people XCloud is better than GFN, and for some people the opposite is true.
So really this just lets you choose which service works better for you, I guess.
That all said, since ZeniMax was litigious about their games being on GFN, I'm sure money changed hands to allow this. Or Microsoft just overrode ZeniMax.
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This is a big deal and will get me to resub.
