Nvidia Brings Ad-free Cloud Gaming To New Chromebooks

Nvidia and Google announced today a new cloud gaming plan called GeForce Now Fast Pass that is exclusive to Chromebooks. Anyone who purchases a new Chromebook will receive a year of the service included with their device at no additional charge. Fast Pass allows Chromebook owners to stream more than 2,000 games from their existing Steam, Epic or Xbox libraries.

The service removes ads and lets users skip the queue that typically adds two minutes or more of wait time on GeForce Now's free tier. Users get 10 hours of cloud gaming each month. Up to five unused hours can roll over to the following month. Nvidia offers other paid plans starting at $9.99 per month that support higher resolutions, faster frame rates, RTX ray-tracing, and access to a larger game library that includes thousands of additional titles. The companies did not announce pricing for Fast Pass after the first year ends.

Good luck with that

[alvinrod]

I'm sure this will be as successful as all of the other times it was tried. What was the Google version of this that they eventually dragged out behind the shed several years ago called again? Stadia? Or was that some other failed attempt at this. NVidia has more money coming in than this could ever hope to bleed, but they're not exactly known for doing anything that doesn't make them even more money.

What developer would sign their game up for this anyway? If this were successful it's the Spotify model a

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[RitchCraft]

Chromebooks suck. Just another attempt at trying to get more sales and user's sweet, sweet private data to monetize.

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[ArchieBunker]

It is amusing how many times we see the thin client / fat server model again and again.

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[Hodr]

GeForce Now predates Stadia by quite a bit, and it was far and away the superior option. I was part of the beta when they allowed full access to your steam library, and it was great. I stopped using it when they allowed publishers to opt out. Every couple of years when a new cloud based gaming setup is released I give it a try, but none of them are as good as GeForce Now was.

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[CAIMLAS]

The NVidia cloud isn't new. It's been around for 3-4 years now at this point and seems pretty mature. It also works far better than Stadia ever dreamed.

I was able to play through multiple games I'd purchased specifically for the purposes of playing them on Nvidia Now, because I didn't have a gaming computer but wanted to complete the titles (Cyberpunk 2077 and Mechwarrior 5). The 'free' tier was irritating with wait times, but was playable. The higher tiers were far better and other than a rare ISP-related

Chromebook Gamers !!!

[meandmatt]

Hello ISP! I am calling again to complain about my connections, it works fine when ping is 8ms, but every time it drop to 28ms, I loose my ranking. I just KNOW something is wrong. Your network exists for the express purpose of letting me play games on a Chromebook. Now, I want a credit, so I can re-buy my loot box that you made me loose. You're wasting my valuable time. Windows gamers with expensive PCs are bad enough. Now we have Chromebook gamers?

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[unrtst]

Windows gamers with expensive PCs are bad enough. Now we have Chromebook gamers?

I don't get this sort of complaining. If one is using Windows, or Xbox, or a Playstation, or Nintendo, they're on proprietary systems already, and nearly all the games are as well. So what if Chromebooks are invited to the party?

The difference on this, compared to a typical Windows gamer, is the streaming of the entire game. However, this isn't anything new. You can already use Xbox Cloud Gaming to game on a Chromebook (and a lot of other devices). Nvidia already has GeForce Now, which also does it. Amazon

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[drinkypoo]

My question is, why only 10 hours a month!?!? I'm sure that's the only reason it's free, but that should also alleviate some of the bandwidth usage concerns.

I would tend to assume that if you pay you get more, so it's just a trial version, and this is just an indirect slashvertisement.

This isn't an article.

[PubJeezy]

This isn't an article, its is an ad. The Verge should be blacklisted as a source. There is no journalism occurring anywhere near The Verge.

"Ad free" won't last

[Tony Isaac]

Don't worry, as soon as they get enough people hooked, they'll bring back the ads.

Lol

[sinkskinkshrieks]

So THIS is how Nvidia is keeping the AI and GPU bubble inflated... giving away some limited time cocaine cloud GPU-backed servers to rug pull on users later with huge subscription prices. Own nothing and perpetually pay more and more.

sounds interesting

[JamesGilliam]

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