What Is GeForce NOW, and Is It Worth It?

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It’s not easy to buy a graphics card in early 2022, and even consoles like the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are in short supply. If you’re looking for some way of playing the latest games, you might want to consider a cloud gaming service like GeForce NOW.

Cloud gaming allows you to use just about any device with an internet connection to stream gameplay over the internet. This means that the game doesn’t run locally on your device (for example, a smartphone) but instead runs remotely in the cloud.

You’ll need some method of controlling the game connected to your device of choice. This could be a gamepad or console controller linked to your smartphone, or it could be a more traditional PC gaming control scheme of a keyboard and mouse. Since the game is running over the internet, you can theoretically use cloud gaming over wired, wireless, or cellular connections.

This allows you to enjoy the latest PC and console releases, anywhere, on practically any modern hardware. There are a few other things to be aware of, like picking a device with a sufficiently high-resolution screen and ensuring your connection quality remains constant (playing over cellular on a moving train may not work too well, for example).

Cloud gaming first appeared with the arrival of the OnLive service, which launched in 2010 and finally shut down in 2015. Now, though, there are many different cloud gaming services, and each attempt to solve the problem of remote gaming on low-powered devices in their own way. In addition to GeForce NOW there is Google Stadia, Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming, Sony’s PlayStation Now, and Amazon Luna.

GeForce NOW is unique in the cloud gaming space in that it allows you to play games that you already own. You can connect