NVIDIA To Launch GRID based On-Demand Game Streaming Service
Nvidia will be launching a cloud gaming service called Nvidia Grid alongside the upcoming update. Grid allows owners of either Nvidia Shield device to stream Windows PC games from the cloud, and from now until June 30, 2015, it will be available in a "preview period" for free.
Streaming movies. Streaming music. Instant popcorn. Gaming gratification should always be a moment away, too. That's why we're introducing our NVIDIA GRID on-demand gaming service. Available Nov. 18 in North America, next month in Europe and next year in Asia, GRID is free on our SHIELD tablet and SHIELD portable through June 30, 2015. While GRID makes gaming gratification immediate, it took us a decade to invent the technology behind the service that streams GeForce GTX-quality graphics to SHIELD devices.
The reason: streaming games is hard. You need to build a powerful gaming computer in the cloud. Then you need to get games to users in milliseconds.
The enabling technologies of GRID are super-low-latency from controller streaming to graphics to game streaming. And, virtualization so that many gamers can share the Geforce cloud gaming supercomputer.he next step: putting thousands of GRID GPUs into data centers around the world. It’s an effort that’s put 20 petaflops of graphics processing compute power into the cloud. That’s equal to the fastest supercomputer in the U.S. And we’re loading it up with great games. We have triple-A titles like Batman: Arkham City and Borderlands 2, as well as classics like Brutal Legend and Psychonauts. We have 20 great games on GRID at launch worth over $400, and we plan to add more games every week.
The service will require a very stable 10 Mbit/sec download internet speed with a maximum ping of 60ms. 5Ghz WIFI is recommened.
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Cloud gaming has a future, just need telco's around the world to catch up with the tech imo.
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If this gets popular in the U.S., the cable companies in the U.S. will flex their muscles and restrict the flow unless a fine ransom is paid as with Netflix and other streaming media services.
Thanks Tom Wheeler and our elected elite!
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Theres no future in cloud gaming as far as I'm concerned.
Bad enough games are being bogged down with DRM limiting our use of them, but with cloud gaming we pretty much give up any claim we have to the titles at all.
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Theres no future in cloud gaming as far as I'm concerned.
Bad enough games are being bogged down with DRM limiting our use of them, but with cloud gaming we pretty much give up any claim we have to the titles at all.
And technically we dont own the games now anyway when we buy them we just buy the right play them.
Cloud based makes it just that much worse, Cloud base gaming wont go no where with all the restriction of ISP Monthly bandwidths and them throttling things.
Only after throttling and Monthly bandwidths go away and EVERY one has decent SPEEDS and by this i mean 50mbit min for decent prices will cloud gaming go anywhere imo
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just another streaming service, nothing special Nvidia!