Shadow revamps its cloud computing offerings in Europe

techcrunch.com:

Shadow, a French company that offers a gaming PC in the cloud (among other things), has announced in a press conference that it is updating its offerings for Shadow PC in Europe. Essentially, the company is raising the prices of its two flagship subscription plans and slightly improving what you get for that price. The company had already rolled out a similar change in the U.S.

Shadow’s cloud computing service lets you access a full-fledged computer in a data center near you. It runs Windows and you can install anything you want on it. For instance, you can install games on Steam, Adobe Premiere Pro or Microsoft Excel and use it for gaming, computer-intensive work or computer stuff in general.

Before today, Shadow’s subscription price started at €29.99 per month with 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage and the professional equivalent of an Nvidia GTX 1080 (a P5000 GPU).

The company’s new basic subscription now starts at €32.99 with 512GB of storage instead of 256GB. The specifications aren’t changing otherwise. This configuration works fine if you want to play free-to-play games that aren’t too demanding and if you mostly want to play in 1080p.

But if you’re looking for a high-end gaming PC in the cloud, Shadow has a premium subscription for consumers called the “Power Upgrade.” Before today, users would get an AMD Epyc 7543P with 8 vCores, 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The Power Upgrade subscription used to cost €44.98 per month.

Now, Shadow is increasing RAM from 16GB to 28GB and storage from 256GB to 512GB. This subscription now costs €49.98 per month. In both cases, Shadow is essentially applying a 10% increase on its subscription prices.

The good news is that existing subscribers won’t be forced to switch to the new plans.