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Xbox Debuts PC Games to NVIDIA GeForce NOW Members Beginning Today

We’re thrilled to share that starting today, NVIDIA GeForce NOW cloud gaming members in the U.K., the U.S., the European Union and around the world can stream Gears 5, and on May 25 will be able to enjoy fan-favorites Deathloop, Grounded, and Pentiment. This is just the beginning stage of our forward-thinking 10-year partnership with NVIDIA to make PC games from Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda available to their GeForce NOW members.

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masterfox381d ago (Edited 381d ago )

lol MS and their 10 years partnerships , they are giving this partnerships like candy, also NVIDIA GeForce NOW freaking sucks!!, not to mention is cloud gaming but it has ridiculous plan payment options, 60 fps / resolution mostly depends of the internet bandwidth, last year I tried once a free trial just for the heck of it, and is effing slow as funk, to load up a game and once it load it was janky low resolution was a very bad experience, if I was to compare it from some PS5 streamed games, Geforce now is on diapers for this type of gaming.

Rdeal381d ago

your internet must be crap because when i tried it ran perfect, i do agree on the pricing

masterfox381d ago

well at least is 200 up and down, soo.

Sonic1881380d ago

It ran perfect for me too.

Jin_Sakai381d ago (Edited 381d ago )

Can’t speak for GeForce Now but I tried Xbox Cloud Gaming on a 1Gbps Fiber connection with 1ms latency and it still wasn’t a smooth experience. I think the backend tech needs massive improvements before game streaming becomes liable. Should it ever.

Class_Viceroy379d ago

Xbox cloud streaming was good at first but seems like it has gone downhill a ton the past year. When Halo first came out I was playing online and doing above average just for perspective. Now I can’t even play Halo online because resolution and smoothness so bad

DarXyde380d ago

News to me. I've heard it was pretty good. Then again, I've never tried it.

Generally not a fan of cloud gaming at all. I tested it on a game that demands precision on PSNow on PS5 (i.e., Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2) and it was pretty damn hard. Mind you, I'm pretty good at that game. It's arguably my proudest platinum trophy from the PS3 era. And I was getting wrecked on the first level. Could be my internet, I don't know.

But either way, my point is that I've never heard anyone complain about GeForce Now beyond game publishers being difficult.

Not calling you a liar, just that this is news to me.

Tacoboto379d ago

Digital Foundry did analysis that found GeForce Now was capable of having lower end-to-end latency than local Xbox Series X play in certain games.

masterfox can't be taken seriously - his posts are always either sucking up to PS or slamming MS. Now it's slamming the most reliable and performant, lowest latency streaming service just because you can play games you bought from a certain publisher.

masterfox379d ago

@tacoboto

" Now it's slamming the most reliable and performant, lowest latency streaming service "

most reliable ? haha lol, I was even a beta tester for that thing and it was garbage, years later with a trial decided to try it again and still freaking sucks!, maybe is a port I have to forward who knows, but fudge that Im not tweaking shat to play games, and is not about slamming MS just for the heck of it, is about common sense, Isnt my freaking problem you enjoy your 10/10 Redfall game good for you , those are your standards lol, when MS start doing intelligent things for gaming well I will applaud them, but for now they just sucks simple as that.

Tacoboto379d ago

Lol I'm not wasting a second on Redfall. You're as irrational as you are biased and your posts continue to demonstrate that.

Class_Viceroy379d ago

I love GFN. Play exclusively over wifi and it’s like 90% good experience. Play on PC and Samsung tablet. Yeah every once in a while it’s off buts it’s cloud streaming, to be expected. It’s much better service than Shadow/Xbox/PS.

Also don’t know what you mean by long time to get into games. I’m in every game even with logging in credentials to launchers within 30 seconds. You have to understand it’s doing a full install every time you play so it’s going to take 30-60 seconds. I mean what more you want lol.

Also locked into founders pricing of $25/6 months. Best bang for buck I have. Can’t complain.

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Obscure_Observer380d ago (Edited 380d ago )

Great news!

More options for gamers and more money to both NVidia and MS to continue and invest in even more games.

Also, Nintendo gamers can expect to play Xbox games via Cloud rather sooner than later.

Stanjara380d ago

Is this an early April fools ad?

Charlieboy333379d ago

Whatever money MS makes from all these deals ( and ABK should it miraculously go through ) is NOT going to go back into making the big blockbuster AAA games to compete with Sony and Nintendo first party that you are dreaming of. Count on it. They are all going to get the budget and effort that gampass deserves

Asplundh379d ago

How about we wait for more than just one flopped game before we start painting that narrative.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH380d ago

I’m not fan of cloud gaming but only a hater would have a problem with there being more options available for more people to play games.

Eonjay380d ago (Edited 380d ago )

No one is against more options. The option for Activision to put its games on Nvidias GForce Now exists and is not something that becomes available only if the are owned by Microsoft.

Claiming that people who are opposed.to the deal are opposed to more options is a red herring.

It's.not what anyone is claiming. It's Microsoft's side attempts to paint the discourse and ignore opposing views without acknowledging them.

It's just PR. Everything is misdirection. Nothing is honest.

thesoftware730380d ago (Edited 380d ago )

What an asinine point, A/B wasn't offering their games to cloud services, Nintendo, Geforce, or PS+, MS is the one pushing the cloud. The 10 year deal is a MS thing, so the 'More options' wouldn't exist without MS investing and promoting it, they are the forerunner of the deal, if A/B deal fails they they still have the contracts to bring MS games to these platforms, A/B will not and never said they would do that, it's all MS.

It's so preposterous to attempt to cut them out of the good point of what they are doing to be a hater. Once again it's a MS deal, not an A/B deal, the first game is Gears 5, and the other announced games are MS games...no matter the reason it's a MS situation, deal, and contract through and through.

More options are good, but not if MS is providing the more options? Do you see how that sounds?

onisama380d ago

MS is leading the cloud gaming poeple seem to not want MS to be the lead or push the industry forward in that regard just because their fav brand isnt the one leading that direction! And complaining MS is giving 10 years deals! 10 years is too long in technology time frame and poeple that really want to make a name for themselves and ready to invest can benefit, its not up to MS to make other companies have success, its business god dam* it

343_Guilty_Spark379d ago

When did Activision actively decide to put all their games on multiple cloud services?

StarkR3ality380d ago

Say what you want about their games, Xbox are deadly serious on being EVERYWHERE.

Charlieboy333379d ago

Yeah, bringing crap to EVERYWHERE. Wanting to push a service to everyone with no quality unique content is laughable.

rlow1379d ago

Who’s pushing? You can stream, play local, download. Plus you can stream to multiple devices.

If anyone’s pushing crap it you.

thesoftware730379d ago (Edited 379d ago )

@Charlie

"no quality unique content is laughable."

That is so disrespectful to the 100s of 3rd party games on GP, almost every major and Minor 3rd party has or had a game on the service, and to say no Halo, Gears, Forza, AoE, Hi-Fi, all Bethesda games, and tons of EA games is "no quality unique" is definitely you being disingenuous..smh brother, not liking a company or service is one thing, but try to articulate better arguments, rather than giant nonsensical broad stroke lies.

Charlieboy333379d ago

Halo, Gears, Forza - way to go listing the longest running joke in Xbox history. Also, Halo? Turned to crap. Gears ( used to be "of War' ) ? Diluted and crap just like the new name. Forza? The ONLY one with a semblance of quality still. Age of Empires, Hi-Fi Rush ? Hold me back, wow! Bethesda games like Redfall? Maybe Starfield but I'm not holding my breath. Elder Scrolls in 5-6 years and Fallout another 5-6 years after? Are you sure you will still even be alive then?

jznrpg377d ago (Edited 377d ago )

Xbox future is a streaming service and Xbox fans will love it because they don’t care what MS delivers to them

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HexGaming Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Hex Phantom

Custom Controller Company HexGaming launched a Kickstarter campaign for their latest pro controller, Hex Phantom. - IS

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Evercade Alpha Reveals Affordable Mini-Arcade

This looks fun and affordable for fans of Retro Cabinet games.
Introducing Evercade Alpha, the first Evercade-compatible arcade machine. This bartop-sized arcade gives you everything you want in a home arcade machine with one big feature - full compatibility with the Evercade cartridge ecosystem.

darthv722d ago

I like the Mega Man one more as it has a better variety of games. Strider, Carrier Airwing, Final fight... The other is all SF. Plus i like that i can pop in any of my evercade carts to play as well.

Garethvk2d ago

As long as it is durable; it's a deal.

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Sony Says The PS5 Is Its “Most Profitable Generation To-Date"

During Sony’s recent business segment meeting and investor presentation regarding its game and network services, the PlayStation company revealed that PlayStation 5 is the company’s “most profitable generation to-date.”

It’s the top slide of the presentation, showing that in its first four years, the PS5 generation has already hit $106 billion in sales, having almost caught up to the PS4’s total $107 billion generated.

Operating income for the PS5 generation has also already surpassed that of the PS4, having now reached $10 billion.

ApocalypseShadow3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I wouldn't doubt it. They released a high quality system. A lot of high quality games from themselves and their support of 3rd party developers and indies. They released many high quality remakes and remasters. They released a high quality GaaS game going against the naysayers thinking Sony would abandon single player games. And they most likely are profiting a lot more than PS1, PS2 PS4 and the loss leading PS3 that drained all their profits.

Now, I'll wait to see what's cooking tomorrow. But can you use some of those profits to better support your high quality VR headset? Because, by supporting it, you can sell more games and more systems and make more profits?

jznrpg3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I want RPGs for PSVR2! Good ones of course

shinoff21833d ago

If it had some rpgs I would buy right fking now. It looks dope and alot of fun, but it's biggest game resident evil 4(maybe) I've got no interest in. I'm not a fan of racing games, even with that metro game coming i was never much into that series. Rpgs would be fantastic.

MrNinosan3d ago

Lemme know if ya wanna play some Zenith 🙌
Bought it at release, but haven't played it more than 1-2 hours but for sure on my "todo list".

Cacabunga3d ago

Normal when they released mostly cross gen games so far. That’s a lot of money saved..
We haven’t seen what PS5 can do yet. 4years in and PS4 games still look great to me. The gen leap isn’t quite there yet.

--Onilink--3d ago

The interesting metric for me is the $106billion in operating income/profit (not sales as mentioned in the article) reaching the same as the PS4 did with only half the consoles sold.

In particular because they all are supposed to be making the most per hardware sold after a few years when manufacturing costs are down.

So even putting inflation aside(and the higher console price), it is interesting that they could reach PS4 $ with just half the consoles sold.

Maybe there is more to the metric thats whats seen at face value, but they have clearly been making a lot more money than before on the software side (with also less games released I suppose, given its only been half the generation so far)

VersusDMC3d ago

The bulk of the money has to be coming from the 30% cut on all games and microtransactions. Especially on all the free to play juggernauts like genshin, apex, fortnight, etc.

--Onilink--3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

@Versus

They are definitely making a lot on that for sure (which the $70 price increase factors into as well), but its not like many of those games werent around for the PS4 too.

They might be counting the gen as a whole and not just PS5 itself (so extra profit from PC sales, whatever that may be)

PS+ price increase and different tiers probably amount to part of that too.

But in general, its still quite a surprising metric. Half the time, half the consoles sold, less first party games released so far and still already making more of a profit than last gen is quite something, and as mentioned, there is probably more to it that we dont know, after all, since we are talking about operating income, all the expenses they have also factor into it, so it is also possible that they have found ways to significantly reduce that + all the means of increased revenue that appear to be factoring into the equation

All in all, just an interesting situation from a business perspective

porkChop3d ago

It's for the whole generation, so it would likely be including PC. They also make much more profit on digital sales vs retail, and digital is far more prominent these days. The generation also started at the height of COVID when everyone was home, spending far more money on gaming/hobbies. It makes a lot of sense for this gen to be more profitable.

Abnor_Mal3d ago

This will surely shut up all the new trolling accounts trying to spread lies and non facts in other articles comment sections before this article is posted.

Hofstaderman3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Obscurely, those trolls or troll will not show in these articles as the truth is contradictory to his or their orchard-sized daily dose of copium and hopium.

Tacoboto3d ago

Or... They're intentionally trolling you guys specifically. Because they know it upsets you so easily.

Name-dropping Orchard, after this many months? How long has it been and he's still in your thoughts?

Elda3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I'm quite sure the individual is reading these positive comments downvoting & seething at the same time. Edit: It just downvoted my comment...lol!!

Hofstaderman3d ago

No I'm entertained by this individual. I love unhinged people, they are so interesting lol.

repsahj3d ago

Wow! I am super impressed that in just 4 years, ps5 already caught up to the PS4's. Congratulations.

JackBNimble2d ago

That happens when half of your games are cross platform. I'm still waiting to see what the ps5 is capable of, because they sure haven't pushed any limits.

And where are all these ps5 exclusive games?

sagapo3d ago

Not really surprised as Sony barely has any competition at the moment.

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