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At CES 2024, NVIDIA added a few extras to the overall GeForce NOW experience to make online, cloud-streamed gaming that much better, and the results continue to be fantastic. We've not made a video highlighting just how good GeForce NOW has become in a little while, so we wanted to talk through some of the additions NVIDIA has delivered on while once again showing it off on a Chromebook that has no business playing high-end games like The Finals.
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So if you haven't really checked into the state of gaming on a Chromebook in a little
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while, you might not realize just how good NVIDIA's GeForce Now has become
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Since the death of Stadia, it's kind of taken up the reins for cloud gaming on a Chromebook
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and it's gone from this service that at one point in time didn't even work in a browser
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like Stadia was doing that thing way before NVIDIA was, to becoming so good that it's
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sometimes a little bit shocking, a little bit jarring to use this and see how good these
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big games run on a Chromebook. So along with a few new announcements that NVIDIA has put together for CES 2024, we just
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want to show you how good GeForce Now is, even on a Chromebook that's not at all built
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for gaming. So for this video, I don't have a ton of stuff planned and this whole outline of what we're
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going to do. I really just want to show you how good this has become because we haven't done a video
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on GeForce Now in a while. A year ago, they updated a lot of stuff to really reduce latency
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It was already pretty good, but they did even more stuff with reflex and all this crazy
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stuff that they're doing on the server side to where it's almost indistinguishable from
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I would say it is indistinguishable for most people, whether they're playing on a console
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or a PC or on GeForce Now. We even sat in a demo out at Vegas last year where we didn't know what was what
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One was GeForce Now, one was a 3080 level card and a 4080 level GPU
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We three of us sat there and we were connected to servers that were in California, so it
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wasn't like we were on some special servers in Vegas. Me and two other random people were sitting there playing this game and then the crowd
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behind us was trying to figure out which one's which. We all missed it
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We all said that the GeForce Now version of the game looked the best
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They've had another year's worth of time to continue changing some of those things
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They have web-based G-Sync now, so if you have a G-Sync monitor, soon a lot of games
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will actually take advantage of G-Sync just like they would if you were running the stuff local
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It will kind of sync up your frame rates with the frame rates that are actually being streamed in so everything looks even smoother than before, which is pretty cool
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They've just made more strides with their Reflex technology, getting latency down to
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basically nothing. We have a good internet connection here, but it's not like the most amazing thing I've
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ever seen. I have a decent internet connection at home, but again, I've jumped on games where I'm
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streaming over my 5G connection on my phone and it's just fine too
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I don't really notice much difference. The big thing that they announced at CES that I think will help some people give this a
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real try are their new day passes. You've got a free tier of GeForce Now, and right now you can see on the screen GeForce
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Now on the free tier currently at capacity. That probably happens a lot
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They don't have a lot of bandwidth there for free. You got one hour session length, so if you're cool with waiting an hour, eventually somebody's
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going to drop off and maybe you'll get in. Clearly paying for the service is kind of how you want to go
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If you go priority, you can go one month. I want to say it's sold out
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I don't even know what that means exactly, but they're only going to have so many people they're going to let on priority
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You can do one month at a time. They will let you do the six month there for 50 bucks
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Then you've got Ultimates packed up right now too, but if you want to do six months
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they'll go ahead and let you in the door there too, but you have day passes now
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For $3.99 I think it is, I want to say it's $3, $4, something like that, and $7 or $8
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for the Ultimate. That gives you access for a 124 hour cycle to either one of those tiers, so you can actually
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try it. You can try it in your home. You can try it in your office. You can try it on your phone
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However it is you think you'll be using GeForce Now, you can try it. You have 24 rolling hours, so if I started right now and say it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon
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I've got until 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to try it. It's not just the rest of the day
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I think at those kind of prices, that's something like, that's a coffee drink
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You'll skip a latte or whatever and give this a try and see
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See if it's something that would work for you. I think a lot of people are skeptical that this can actually be as good as people like
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me are saying it is, or that Nvidia is saying it is. I'm like, if you don't try it, it's hard for you to know
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The minute that you actually give it a try, it is pretty wild how convincing this can be
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Where it used to be this gimmick to just be like, wow, it's actually working. It's moving my stuff and my keys are working
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We've gone so far past that now. It is so fun to play these games
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I get demolished in them. I don't spend enough time playing them, so I'm bad at them
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It's still so much fun to see graphics like this. I'm going to run a game for just a few minutes, just so you can see, but it's so much fun
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to watch a game in motion on a Chromebook that clearly can't run anything like this
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Running so well at such high frame rates with such clear graphics
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It's just a really cool thing to behold. Without any further ado, let me actually just jump in, play a few minutes of a game
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There's a new game. I'll talk about some of that here in a minute, called The Finals that I've been getting into
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Let me jump into a game and just show you where we're at with GeForce Now
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I've got it loaded up in a window here. It's important to remember, GeForce Now's strengths are its performance
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It's really good. The latency is really low. The graphics look fantastic
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That's where they've spent their time and their money. This game is a perfect example
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When I launch The Finals, I see the virtual desktop that I'm jumping into
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On this one, it was like 30 or 60 seconds. You see the Steam dashboard and stuff like that
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They don't cover up everything the way that they should, but once you've linked up your
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Steam account, you can link up Steam, you can link up your Xbox, PC Game Pass account
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you can link up Bethesda, and more are coming, I think. Once you link those up, any of those games that you have, purchase
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This is a free-to-play game, but if you want to play Modern Warfare 3, for instance, Call
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of Duty, that's a paid game. I'd have to buy that in Steam, but once it's bought in Steam, that license would work while
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I'm in here. Free-to-play games like this, Apex Legends, Fortnite, that kind of stuff
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I can play Call of Duty Warzone, which is their free-to-play battle royale
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I can do that, which is what I play on here. That brings me to ... I was going to say I'd wait for that
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By the way, I'm going to get destroyed here, so don't laugh at me
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I just started playing this game, so I'm not very good. Big-name titles are starting to come to GeForce Now
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At one point, it was like, there's all these games, but some of the big titles that you
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really wanted to see weren't there. Last month, Call of Duty showed up, so I think it's Modern Warfare 2 and 3 and Warzone are
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all on here now. That's part of NVIDIA's big thing they signed with Microsoft to basically start allowing
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some of these Xbox Game Pass games over. There's a bunch of layers to that agreement, but it's paving the way for other stuff like
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Overwatch 2 is coming. That's part of the CES announcement. Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, some of these Blizzard titles will start showing up here
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Some of these big game developers that were a little bit not quite sure what to make of
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cloud gaming at first, like back when Stadia was trying to push forward, there were a lot
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of them that were like, licensing, we don't really want to mess with any of that kind of stuff
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We're starting to see them come around. We're starting to see some of this stuff work out
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The performance of GeForce Now is one thing. If the performance is great, like Stadia performed really well too, so I don't want to act like
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it didn't. GeForce Now can have great performance, great graphics, low latency
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I can jump in, I never have to wait. I've got the ultimate tier here
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You never have to wait. For $20 a month, that's way cheaper than buying a bunch of games and trying to go buy a gaming
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rig and all that stuff. Stuff I'm just not going to do, if I'm being honest
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I don't feel like my mouse has got enough sensitivity here. To me, being able to just jump in and never have to wait on updates
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My kids sometimes want to play Fortnite and they're like, yeah, I'll jump in, I'm ready to go. They're like, oh, we got an update
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I'll see you in an hour. That's just not a thing with game streaming
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That's not a thing I've got to worry about too much. I love some of that stuff, but as good as all that stuff is, as nice as all that stuff
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is, none of it matters if there's no games to play. At the end of the day, if I can't get into the game that I want to play, who cares how
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good it streams? It doesn't really matter. Who cares how good it looks, which this looks amazing, by the way
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Who cares about any of that stuff if at the end of the day, I can't play any of the
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games that I want to? We're seeing that finally start changing. That was one of the big things that I was concerned about with GeForce Now at the beginning
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was that if we can't get these big name developers on board, these game developers, if they don't
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care about game streaming, then it doesn't really matter, does it? It doesn't matter how good the technical prowess of a service is if at the end of the day
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I can't play the game I want to play on it. We're seeing the end of that era, I think
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I feel like in 2024, we're going to see a ton of great new games show up on this service
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Look at this. This game's wild, by the way. There's a whole crowd watching us shoot each other
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I think it's supposed to be all digital, though. I don't think as a person, you're actually in the game here or in the arena
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You're virtually in it or something. You're getting full ray tracing here
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You see all the lighting effects on the floor and all that kind of stuff. As we're screen recording here, we're only doing 1080p
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You can crank this up to 1440, crank it up to 120 frames
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This screen doesn't support it. Even at that, this looks awesome. I'm really failing my team here, by the way
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I'm supposed to be collecting coins and doing stuff, not running around and showing you
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shiny walls. You get the gist here. There is just no latency whatsoever
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Hopefully, you can hear my space bar. You can see and hear the click of my mouse
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There's just no latency there. That is immediate. I don't know what else to say about GeForce Now other than it's amazing
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The games that you can play here are awesome. If the game that you want is here and it is working, then it is a service well worth paying
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for, especially if you're someone like me who doesn't want to go invest in a big gaming rig
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You don't want to go invest in a bunch of games. I just want to see what shows up here and then try it and play it and enjoy it
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When I'm done, close it up and move on and not really have to think about updating. God, I need to update my graphics card
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I need to probably go buy some more RAM. Guess what? NVIDIA servers have all that stuff covered
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They're going to make sure that you always have the best possible gaming experience
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Hopefully you can tell by watching this just how good this is
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It's so impressive. It's so much fun to play and it's so hard to make a video when a game like this is playing
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right in front of me. I want to do this instead if I'm being completely honest
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That's what I want you all to do. I want you all to check this out. Go get a day pass
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Open your Chromebook up and go and check out GeForce Now because as good as it was last
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time we made a video about it, it has gotten so much better. It's just unbelievable how good this service has become
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That's all I really wanted to tell you about today. That's it for this one
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