Quoting: 14It's neat, but what is the point?

I'm pretty sure that is the point. You can get more performance elsewhere, and you can get the same performance for less $$$.....but neither will look this cool sitting on your living room or desk.

I'll never buy one....but I do kinda want one :D

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I'm a fan, ChimeraOS really filled in the gap when Valve kinda just let steamos 2 die. If you have a TV based gaming setup this is the way to go, super simple to setup and everything kinda just works out of the box. Was really impressed with the work they've done.

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Quoting: pete910Damn shame no co-op!

This is a shame. The portal 2 co-op experience was soooo much fun, would be amazing to see what new scenarios time travel could introduce with 2 players.

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Quoting: GuestHonest question - why would I want to use this over Firefox or Chrome, especially on Linux? It seems an odd choice to port over.

Edge is pretty polished these days and does have a few differences from chrome that might attract users. Such as miracast/dnla content sharing rather than Chromecast. I’d consider using it over chrome.

The reality is the reasons to pick one browser over another really depends on the user. For me, Firefox lets me password protect access to saved logins. It’s a must for my use case, but probably means nothing to 99% of users.

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Quoting: ShmerlIt doesn't have to be their games, but it can be something that's released for the platform, using its features that Geforce Now simply can't have. Geforce now is not a platform for releasing games, it's a Windows VM renting service - they aren't releasing anything and no one is releasing for them. Approach is quite different by design.

Google's platform has a lot of potential, games designed to run exclusively in the data center could offer some pretty ground breaking experiences. Its what excited me the most about the Stadia announcement. But in its current state, Geforce Now is the better value. I hope google sticks to it and someday the promise of Stadia pay's off, but that could be years away. You gotta attract people to your platform before you can convince developers to go all in on a Stadia exclusive, or at least exclusive features, or even just porting a game to it.....

I'm still not counting google out, once they role out more features, lower tiers, and access to it without having to buy the bundle the cost of entry will be so low I'm sure a lot of people will sign up. But for the foreseeable future geforce now seems to be the better option.

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Quoting: ShmerlFrom there it sounds like it can render on Nvidia, and display through the integrated. But I suppose then not the other way around?

I think this is accurate. However a lot of laptops have their outputs hardwired to the integrated graphics so this might not come up for most people. And in the event you are using the dedicated card, it must be powered on so there would be little to no power savings by offloading work back to the iGPU. I may be missing something but I can't think of any situations one would want to do this, and if there is it would be a pretty niche use case....

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To be fair, making big promises you can't possible keep, then rushing an unfinished product out the door and fixing it post launch is actually pretty on brand for the games industry today.....

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Lol, next September? This will be the first time I've put 500+ hours into a game that hasn't officially launched :D

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Sweeney usually makes a lot of sense in these posts. The problem is there's a disconnect between what he says and what Epic does, or at least what they are perceived to be doing. It's always some lofty goal where Epic is going to make the whole industry better for everyone, but in practice it feels like they are actively making the situation worse. I was pretty disappointed when Metro was playable day one with Steam/proton, but you couldn't even get the EGS running to download it let alone play it. Regardless, I hope he comes through on the things he's promising.

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I kinda like the naming scheme, using "super" feels like a throwback to when I was kid with a SNES, everything was super back then ;) And I'll take super over them rebranding the cards as a 2100/3000 series. Overall this is a good mid generation refresh, brings a lot more value to the 2060/2070 skus and keeps them in the clear lead in terms of raw performance over AMD.

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