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NVIDIA Announces GeForce NOW Day Pass, New Activision-Blizzard Titles

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NVIDIA is bringing more games, membership options and innovative tech to its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. The next Activision and Blizzard titles to join the cloud, Diablo IV and Overwatch 2, will be coming soon. They'll be joined by a host of top titles, including Capcom's Exoprimal, HoYoverse's Honkai: Star Rail and Mainframe Industries' Pax Dei.

Available starting in February, new day passes for Ultimate and Priority memberships will offer full premium benefits one day at a time. NVIDIA is also bringing G-SYNC technology to the cloud, raising cloud streaming performance while lowering latency and minimizing stuttering for the smoothest gameplay. Paired with new 60 and 120 FPS streaming options for GFN Reflex mode, the two together make cloud gaming experiences nearly indistinguishable from local ones.



Plus, mobile gamers are getting a boost to 1440p resolution on Android phones. And Japan is the newest region to be operated by NVIDIA, which will soon enable gamers across the country to play their favorite PC games in the cloud with Ultimate performance.

The GeForce NOW catalog features many of the most popular PC games—over 1,800 titles from Steam, Xbox and supported PC Game Pass titles, Epic Games Store, Ubisoft, GOG.com and other digital stores. Backed by up to GeForce RTX 4080 GPU-class graphics, GeForce NOW is bringing even more top titles to the cloud from celebrated publishers.

The latest games from top developer Blizzard Entertainment—Diablo IV and Overwatch 2—are coming soon to GeForce NOW. They join the recent release of Call of Duty, the first Activision game in the cloud, as part of a 10-year NVIDIA and Microsoft partnership.

Fight the forces of hell while discovering countless abilities to master, legendary loot to gather and nightmarish dungeons full of evil enemies to vanquish in Diablo IV. Experience the campaign solo or with friends in a shared open world as the dark, gripping story unfolds.

Team up and answer the call of heroes in Overwatch 2, a free-to-play shooter featuring 30+ epic heroes, each with game-changing abilities. Join the battle across dozens of futuristic maps inspired by real-world locations and master unique game modes in the always-on, ever-evolving, live game.

Members will soon be able to stream the Steam versions of Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 on nearly any device with the power of a GeForce RTX 4080 rig in the cloud, with support for the Battle.net launcher to follow.

GeForce NOW also brings top role-playing games to the cloud. The immensely popular Honkai: Star Rail from HoYoverse will join Genshin Impact coming soon in the cloud. The space-fantasy RPG is set in a diverse universe filled with wonder, adventure and thrills, and expands the library of hit free-to-play titles for members. Plus, members can experience all the latest updates without worrying about download times.

Top publisher Capcom is working with NVIDIA to bring more of its hit titles to the cloud, including Exoprimal, an online, team-based action game that pits humanity's cutting-edge exosuit technology against history's most ferocious beasts: dinosaurs. Look forward to seeing it in the cloud on Jan. 18.

Mainframe Industries' Pax Dei is a highly anticipated social sandbox massively multiplayer online game inspired by legends of the medieval era. It's planned to release on GeForce NOW when it launches for PC.

Get ready to play these titles and more at high performance coming soon. Ultimate members will be able to stream at up to 4K resolution and 120 frames per second with support for NVIDIA DLSS and Reflex technology, and experience the action even on low-powered devices. Keep an eye out on GFN Thursdays for the latest on their release dates in the cloud.

Don't Pass This Up
Day Passes, available in early February, will give gamers a fast pass to try out premium membership benefits before committing to one- or six-month memberships that offer better value. The passes provide access to all the same features as Priority and Ultimate members for 24 hours.

Day Pass users can experience RTX ON for supported games with Priority and Ultimate Day Passes. And Ultimate Day Pass users gain exclusive access to innovative technologies like NVIDIA DLSS 3.5, full ray tracing and NVIDIA Reflex.

These new membership options let gamers freely choose when to tap into the cloud.

The Ultimate Day Pass will be available for $7.99 and the Priority Day Pass for $3.99. The 24 hours of continuous play will begin at purchase. Day Passes can be combined for continued access to GeForce NOW high-performance cloud streaming.

Let That Sync In
NVIDIA continues to push the boundaries for cloud gaming. The Ultimate membership tier introduced many cloud gaming firsts, from 240 FPS to ultra-wide streaming, making gameplay with GeForce NOW—streaming from GeForce RTX 4080-powered servers—nearly identical to a local gaming experience.

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is anyone using these cloud gaming services, are they profitable?
 
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is anyone using these cloud gaming services, are they profitable?
I have certainly tried out a couple of these cloud gaming services.

Since I am not an employee of these companies (Nvidia, Google, Nintendo, etc.), I have no insight into profitability. And even if I did know, most likely I would be forbidden to comment on a public Q&A forum.

Based on the quick demise of Stadia, my guess is that it was not profitable though. When Google announced the Stadia service cancellation they referred to this without quoting any numbers. They did obliquely mention a lack of adequate revenue growth.

As for GeForce NOW, my guess is that it currently operates at a loss with the hope that someday it will turn a profit. I have no idea about Xbox, Amazon, Nintendo but I would assume they are in the same boat.

There are plenty of companies who have done this. Amazon.com ran their online store for probably a decade before it consistently posted a profit. Apple's iTunes Store and App Stores didn't even show up as separate businesses in the early years.
 
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