Friday, March 19th 2021

NVIDIA Doubles GeForce NOW Pricing With New Priority Membership Plan

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NVIDIA launched their first cloud gaming service way back in 2013 in the form of NVIDIA Grid for the NVIDIA Shield which allowed users to play a library of games hosted on NVIDIA servers. This service was renamed to GeForce NOW in 2015 and an additional option of purchasing individual games was also introduced. When NVIDIA launched GeForce NOW for Windows, and Macintosh in 2017 they switched to a "bring your own games" model which required the user to own a compatible game on their Steam or other storefront account. When GeForce NOW officially exited beta in 2020 two pricing tiers were available free and the 4.99 USD/month Founders plan. The free plan was limited to 1080/60p with a max session time of one hour while Founders subscribers gained access to raytracing and six hour sessions along with priority access to servers.

NVIDIA have recently announced changes to the pricing for GeForce NOW as the service enters into it's second year of general release. NVIDIA has discontinued the Founders membership for new subscribers and has replaced it with the Priority membership plan for 9.99 USD/month or 99.99 USD/year. Current Founders members will receive a Founders for Life membership which renews at 4.99 USD/month for the lifetime of the subscription. This latest price increases comes as NVIDIA continues to expand the service launching in new countries and nearing 10 million members.
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60 Comments on NVIDIA Doubles GeForce NOW Pricing With New Priority Membership Plan

#51
TheoneandonlyMrK
silentbogoWhy is this even on the front page. Sensationalism again? Sheep syndrome?
Price did not double, the "limited time offer" ended. It's your typical "get the 1st year at 50% discount" tactics, which every subscription service uses since 80s.


It's a service, not goods. Your monthly internet bill has no resale value either.

Except for AU and US, the internet is excellent in highlighted countries. Heck, I only pay >$10/mo for 400Mbit/s internet with ext. IP and up to 1Gbit/s for internal traffic (e.g. within ukr. exchange networks). Bandwidth requirements for 1080p60 cloud gaming are exactly the same as for 1080p60 video streaming. The only thing that's of importance nowadays, is latency.
I don't get you, it's a gaming platform price increase.
It's relevant to a few on TPU and many passing by.
I was never buying into streamed gaming so no hate here,. I'm not bothered.

It's yet another confusing thread where some who used it naturally threw hate at paying more , normal.
And a load of fanbois defending their precious , strange.
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#52
jboydgolfer
im not sure if i could buy in to a cloud gaming service. i did like being able to play bloodborne on PC using PSNow. that was great, but it was also free for 7Days.
like anything, this likely needs time to be properly deployed, before it is user friendlier
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#53
AsRock
TPU addict
Never will try or own it, just like the consoles as i aint paying to use a service, more so a service were your worse of than using a MS\Sony console.
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#54
AusWolf
TheoneandonlyMrKI don't get you, it's a gaming platform price increase.
It's relevant to a few on TPU and many passing by.
I was never buying into streamed gaming so no hate here,. I'm not bothered.

It's yet another confusing thread where some who used it naturally threw hate at paying more , normal.
And a load of fanbois defending their precious , strange.
If you posted an article with the title "Water is wet", you'd still get a community of supporters and one of haters. It's 21st century internet magic.

Anyway, I agree. It's just a lot more stable to run games on your own PC instead of the cloud to which your connection can be broken for a million reasons.
It's just like driving vs taxi, I guess. Calling a taxi is fine when I'm drunk, but I couldn't imagine a road trip without driving my own car.
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#55
bonehead123
The Need..
..The Greed....
....The Deed.....
......The Steed.....
........The Bleed......
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#56
silentbogo
TheoneandonlyMrKI don't get you, it's a gaming platform price increase.

If you buy some trinket on Black Friday, you don't expect that price to hold forever, don't you? It's not a case of "price increase", it's a case of "people can't read".
We can argue about whether their pricing is fair or not, considering you have to bring your own games... but bashing a company for simply ending a limited time promotion(with heads-up, and while still keeping old prices for "Founders") is childish.
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#57
TheoneandonlyMrK
silentbogo
If you buy some trinket on Black Friday, you don't expect that price to hold forever, don't you? It's not a case of "price increase", it's a case of "people can't read".
We can argue about whether their pricing is fair or not, considering you have to bring your own games... but bashing a company for simply ending a limited time promotion(with heads-up, and while still keeping old prices for "Founders") is childish.
What you on about.

I said"I don't get you, it's a gaming platform price increase.
It's relevant to a few on TPU and many passing by.
I was never buying into streamed gaming so no hate here,. I'm not bothered."


What part of that is bashing Nvidia, I was stating it Is relevant news.

And wtaf you on about if I buy some trinket on black Friday it's fu£#@# bought ,done ,finished.
You touch my account after ,,,,I f##@ your shop up.

Your analogy is balls as is pulling me out as some kind of Nvidia basher here, this isn't the mining GPU thread I'll bash them there that's fair this wouldn't be.
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#58
Steevo
qubitI know where that's coming from - economies of scale, where something can be done for cheaper.

I guess in this instance, it's competition that would drop the price. By the looks of it, NVIDIA doesn't think Stadia is a worthy competitor.

And for the record, I'm not interested in these services anyway. I reckon they're getting a leg-up though, due to the chronic graphics card shortage.
Maybe we now know where teh extra graphics cards are going, into their own servers, pay to play or you get nothing.
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#59
bug
SteevoMaybe we now know where teh extra graphics cards are going, into their own servers, pay to play or you get nothing.
That doesn't explain where AMD's cards go. AMD doesn't run an equivalent service.
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#60
AusWolf
bugThat doesn't explain where AMD's cards go. AMD doesn't run an equivalent service.
I don't think their cards go anywhere. They mostly focus on console chips, and whatever little manufacturing capacity is left at TSMC is taken up by Ryzen. Doesn't mean I agree with Steevo's post, though.
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