Nailed the arguments. I was a pc master race. We had to adapt the house for my disabled daughter and this meant losing the space for my PC. Cloud gaming was the best option for me. Streamed to a £80 tablet with a £20 stretch controller and occassionally to an LG tv. I get a top tier PC streamed to me and ongoing upgrades keeping me at that tip tier. The 5 years of geforcenow if bought when sales is less than the cost of a top gpu. Although I use boosteroid presently as wanted to play the sony titles gfn dorsnt have. I cant play every single game but tbh as a dad of 4 one as aforementioned seriously disabled then i only really play single player AAAs for maybes an hour a day if im lucky and often thats sat in the school car park 20 miles from home cloud gaming on 5G on my phone. Cloud gaming just makes 100% sense for me and many many others and I honestly can never see me returning to traditional gaming. End of the day game as you want to, no matter the method, the green v blue, old game emulation. Just enjoy your hobby.
Wow Ben! Amazing to hear how this works so well for you. I can’t begin to tell you how much the Dad gaming and grabbing a few minutes while waiting in school car line resonates with me. Plus with my back log of games I can always find something to play! Boosteroid is an awesome option as well. Thanks so much for watching!
I sold my PC a few months ago. My AIO went out for the second time in three years. When you add frustrations like that on top of the cost of staying current with components, it was enough for me to decide PC just wasn’t for me. GeForce Now seems like the perfect middle ground. Yes, I have a PS5 and a Switch, but that cuts me off from a number of Xbox and PC exclusives. Paying for GeForce Now a few months out of the year is the perfect “good enough” solution for me. I’m currently looking to get a Shield TV Pro so I can play in 4K/120hz.
I'm at 5:00 and just to add to it. You'll need at minimum still, a case, keyboard, monitor, and possibly desk/chair. All these things gonna be terrible at low price point, if you don't already have them. But on the flip side if you have a monitor/tv, keyboard, and mouse. You spend less even getting the 200$ nvidia shield, a controller, and some games. That's overkill too we all know you don't even need to spend that 200$ so you got even more budget to buy some games and let Nvidia deal with the depreciating hardware. Right now, GFN with the games you want to play is a better deal than a budget build. Hell, buy a used steam deck from steam at 320, you still got 160~ from that budget for some games. Let's take MH Wild too, I'm not spending 2-3k to play that game. I'm gonna let it come out on GFN and stream it to the Steam Deck at 800p Max settings and might get away with it at the 10$ tier. I just found out today that some games even supports mods so bout to jump into that. I'm coming from 3080 from 2 years ago, I think I spent 4k in total. Sold for 1000$ this year, so let's say I'm out 3k. I could've just got GFN ult for the next 12.5 years. I'm on your side of the logic it's the future, we'll have thin clients and then stream the games to them.
I totally agree with the points made good video the only think is a minus for me is the library neither boosteroid or nvidia have all the games but microsoft might be the hero later this year if we believe Phil we will be able to play our games on the xcloud soon
I’m on Xbox at the moment. As I travel a lot for work I’m thinking of getting an rog ally x and then use GeForce now and boosteroid when I’m home. Only bit I’m not sure about is how it works through the ally or through a Mac book air to my tv.
Did you add the cost of having to buy the pc or notebook to actually run geforce now? I know it doesn't use alot of resources but it's still a cost that will decrease the months you can play for. I get the argument and i use gfn myself but i already have the hardware. But advice for someone starting out you could use that money and get at least a mid tier pc and when it starts struggling then switch over. Also some people would need to buy multiple services because the game they might want to play is only available on other platforms such as boosteroid or xbox cloud so theres those costs as well.
That’s a really good point. Should definitely consider there’s still a cost to purchase a machine to run GeForce Now at all. I guess maybe we could consider that sometimes people will already have these things organically whether for work or school but also something’s like smart tvs and consoles can run the app. But you’re right overall, there is still a cost to entry.
Nailed the arguments. I was a pc master race.
We had to adapt the house for my disabled daughter and this meant losing the space for my PC. Cloud gaming was the best option for me. Streamed to a £80 tablet with a £20 stretch controller and occassionally to an LG tv.
I get a top tier PC streamed to me and ongoing upgrades keeping me at that tip tier. The 5 years of geforcenow if bought when sales is less than the cost of a top gpu. Although I use boosteroid presently as wanted to play the sony titles gfn dorsnt have.
I cant play every single game but tbh as a dad of 4 one as aforementioned seriously disabled then i only really play single player AAAs for maybes an hour a day if im lucky and often thats sat in the school car park 20 miles from home cloud gaming on 5G on my phone.
Cloud gaming just makes 100% sense for me and many many others and I honestly can never see me returning to traditional gaming.
End of the day game as you want to, no matter the method, the green v blue, old game emulation. Just enjoy your hobby.
Wow Ben! Amazing to hear how this works so well for you. I can’t begin to tell you how much the Dad gaming and grabbing a few minutes while waiting in school car line resonates with me.
Plus with my back log of games I can always find something to play! Boosteroid is an awesome option as well.
Thanks so much for watching!
I sold my PC a few months ago. My AIO went out for the second time in three years. When you add frustrations like that on top of the cost of staying current with components, it was enough for me to decide PC just wasn’t for me.
GeForce Now seems like the perfect middle ground. Yes, I have a PS5 and a Switch, but that cuts me off from a number of Xbox and PC exclusives. Paying for GeForce Now a few months out of the year is the perfect “good enough” solution for me. I’m currently looking to get a Shield TV Pro so I can play in 4K/120hz.
I'm at 5:00 and just to add to it. You'll need at minimum still, a case, keyboard, monitor, and possibly desk/chair. All these things gonna be terrible at low price point, if you don't already have them. But on the flip side if you have a monitor/tv, keyboard, and mouse. You spend less even getting the 200$ nvidia shield, a controller, and some games. That's overkill too we all know you don't even need to spend that 200$ so you got even more budget to buy some games and let Nvidia deal with the depreciating hardware.
Right now, GFN with the games you want to play is a better deal than a budget build. Hell, buy a used steam deck from steam at 320, you still got 160~ from that budget for some games.
Let's take MH Wild too, I'm not spending 2-3k to play that game. I'm gonna let it come out on GFN and stream it to the Steam Deck at 800p Max settings and might get away with it at the 10$ tier. I just found out today that some games even supports mods so bout to jump into that. I'm coming from 3080 from 2 years ago, I think I spent 4k in total. Sold for 1000$ this year, so let's say I'm out 3k. I could've just got GFN ult for the next 12.5 years. I'm on your side of the logic it's the future, we'll have thin clients and then stream the games to them.
Its important to realise that not all games are on gforce now. In fact relatively few are.
With my budget laptop I can't even afford new AAA games and I don't have them. With GeForce now I can try some new games - for me sounds awesome.
I totally agree with the points made good video the only think is a minus for me is the library neither boosteroid or nvidia have all the games but microsoft might be the hero later this year if we believe Phil we will be able to play our games on the xcloud soon
Yeah, that’s a fair point. But the constant Thursday releases on GeForce Now give me a lot of hope!
But we still wouldn't have the Sony's which is a massive plus of boosteroid.
I’m on Xbox at the moment. As I travel a lot for work I’m thinking of getting an rog ally x and then use GeForce now and boosteroid when I’m home. Only bit I’m not sure about is how it works through the ally or through a Mac book air to my tv.
Did you add the cost of having to buy the pc or notebook to actually run geforce now? I know it doesn't use alot of resources but it's still a cost that will decrease the months you can play for. I get the argument and i use gfn myself but i already have the hardware. But advice for someone starting out you could use that money and get at least a mid tier pc and when it starts struggling then switch over. Also some people would need to buy multiple services because the game they might want to play is only available on other platforms such as boosteroid or xbox cloud so theres those costs as well.
That’s a really good point. Should definitely consider there’s still a cost to purchase a machine to run GeForce Now at all.
I guess maybe we could consider that sometimes people will already have these things organically whether for work or school but also something’s like smart tvs and consoles can run the app.
But you’re right overall, there is still a cost to entry.
Geforce now in terms of gaming slangs on the internet is a subrace of the pc master race
If your understand the joke?