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NVIDIA GeForce NOW: Tested on Cheap and Expensive Hardware
Feb 12, 2020
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When GeForce NOW came out of beta just over a week ago, I initially had my reservations about how well the service would actually perform. Being a big fan of Stadia and the way it works, I expected NVIDIA's service to perhaps work well on certain devices and fall flat on others. I realized almost immediately that those expectations were flat-out wrong and GeForce NOW has quickly become a daily go-to for gaming on a handful of devices I own.
We've included a sampling of GeForce NOW running on everything from a mid-range phone to a $2000 Macbook Pro. Specifically, we tested the Pixel 3a XL, the Lenovo Tab 4 10+ (an older tablet running Android 7), the Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e (a mid-range, $400 tablet), the Surface Go, and a 2016 Macbook Pro. When you talk about a range of devices, I think this covers the spectrum.
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just recently nvidia shook up the gaming
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world as they finally brought their
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streaming platform GeForce now out of
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its years long beta state and as it came
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out of that and we saw the news start
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coming around that we could get our
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hands on it and start using it we
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started testing it on everything we
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could obviously we started with the
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Chromebook first and we're going to talk
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through kind of the different phases
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we've gone through of testing it but
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what we wanted to show you all today is
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the fact that you can run GeForce now
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run the games that you already own
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despite whatever hardware it is that you
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have in front of you and it doesn't take
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some high-end tablet or some really nice
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Windows PC or some spec tout MacBook Pro
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you can do it on really cheap hardware
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and mouse and keyboard and controller
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input all work and we just kind of want
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to show it to you because it's really
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impressive
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us we fired up a Chromebook and went and
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looked for the application in the Play
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Store and we're kind of let down by the
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fact that it's technically not supported
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on Chromebooks right now so if you go to
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the Play Store and look for GeForce now
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you're just not going to find it and if
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you find a link to go to the place where
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you should be able to download it and
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you do end up finding that listing it's
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not going to allow you to download it
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but that didn't stop us we went and put
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our pixel book go into developer mode we
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side-loaded the APK and got the whole
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thing up and running kind of excited
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there for a few seconds until we figured
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out about 60 to 90 seconds into any game
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the thing will freeze up it just doesn't
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work anymore so for right now
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Chromebooks are kind of out that's not
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to say you're not gonna be able to play
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this on a Chromebook NVIDIA has come out
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and even said their web player will
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launch later in 2020 and they
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specifically said that that's how
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Chromebooks will go about using this
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service and as long as the web player
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works the way we would expect it to and
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kind of as good as stadia as web player
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works and that should be fine and
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that'll be great but for right now
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Chromebooks are kind of officially off
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the table our next logical step was to
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try an Android device so I whipped out
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my phone installed the app
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and had it up and running really quickly
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and everything works exactly like you'd
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expect now this isn't the exact same
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process as what you would see with
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something like stadia stadia is its own
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platform you buy games that work on
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stadia and when you have stadia in front
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of you you pick up the game you hit play
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and you go the g-force now interface is
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a little bit different and honestly it's
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a little bit clunky because really what
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they're trying to do is go about this
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whole thing in a different way and allow
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you to play games from your epic game
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store or steam or battlenet or you play
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all of those accounts will work with
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your existing GeForce now account you
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just have to log in and use those
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particular gaming accounts and you can
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play games that you already own and
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already have access to on those services
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all that aside once I got logged in and
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had a game up and running I got
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fortnight up and running immediately it
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ran really smooth high frame rates
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everything looked good and the latency
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was really nice now there's an on-screen
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controller for your phone and I don't
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recommend using it it's not great but
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the minute I took my stadia controller
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and plug the USB type-c in it recognizes
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it I was able to play immediately no new
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setup no hoops to jump through
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everything just work the way you would
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expect it to and I also then hooked up a
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mouse and keyboard via you know USB
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dongle right in the side of the phone
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and surprisingly it just switched right
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over and everything started working
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there too and again latency and input
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was pretty amazing to be honest with you
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I expected there to be some hiccups here
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and there and it honestly was just as
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good as playing anything in stadia
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what's special about that is when you
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talk about Android and mouse input the
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mouse kind of hovers over top of the
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Android interface it's it doesn't feel
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like it's a native part of it and if
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you've ever hooked up a mouse to an
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Android device you know exactly what I'm
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talking about
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so I wasn't exactly sure how a mouse and
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keyboard would work with g-force now on
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an Android device and I was just so
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surprised at how fluid and how smooth it
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works as soon as the game loads the
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mouse cursor the Android mouse cursor
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disappears and you now control the mouse
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cursor on that cloud server that's
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hosting whatever game it is you're
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playing the whole setup was super easy
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and way simpler than I expected to be
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and so compliments to Nvidia for
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figuring out how to make
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Android mouse and keyboard input just
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feels so native the next step from there
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was to try this out on a handful of
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Android tablets I mean would it take
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something with a nice processor in it or
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could we get something cheap and so what
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we tried both with Samsung's Galaxy Tab
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s5e which is kind of a mid-range tablet
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like a $400 tablet that has a similar
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processor to the pixel 3a then we also
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have a Lenovo tablet that I don't even
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know it's it's so old I'm not even sure
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what the actual model is on it it is not
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fast it can barely even play Pub G
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Mobile so if that gives you an idea of
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its processing power it is not something
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that it's just blowing it out of the
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park and we put NVIDIA GeForce now and
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both of them hook keyboards hook
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joysticks up to them all that kind of
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stuff same thing I did with my phone and
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it rained perfectly on both of them too
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and so it was really interesting to
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watch a tablet that couldn't run a
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mobile version of pub G load up GeForce
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now and run Apex legends and run for
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tonight in this nice crisp detail with
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no input lag with no problems whatsoever
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I mean it changes the way that you look
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at going about getting your games and it
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changes the things you think about the
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hardware you would need to run these
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types of games to be sure that the
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experience couldn't be heightened on
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some better equipment or a better
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operating system we actually installed
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GeForce now on our kind of Resident
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Windows machine yes we have to test
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things on Windows from time to time and
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especially now that edge is moved into
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being a chromium based browser we keep a
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Windows device around it so we through
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GeForce now on our surface go this is a
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Pentium gold with a gigs ram it's
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nothing special again this is not some
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monster Windows PC this is kind of as
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entry-level as you can get and once
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again no surprises here everything just
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works it's fast its fluid and once
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you're connected you can run pretty much
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any game that you would like finally we
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just went ahead and installed it on our
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MacBook as well and yeah this is a
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pretty high-end MacBook Pro but again we
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wanted to find out if there's any
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benefits really to using or leveraging
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bigger Hardware here and truth is no
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it's pretty much the exact same
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experience across the board so whether
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you're talking about a $2,000 MacBook or
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like $100 Android tablet as long as you
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can get GeForce now installed and
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running
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you can play these games at the same
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level and with the same graphics and the
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same frame rates regardless of what
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hardware you have in front of you and
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that's something pretty special as we're
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waiting for stadia to get more games and
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more people showing up to play and as
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we're waiting for it to be available on
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more Android devices this new service
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from Nvidia has shown up at a very
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interesting time when gamers are
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starting to really consider cloud gaming
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as something that they might do and
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again professional gamers probably not
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but people like me that play very casual
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games this is something that's insanely
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intriguing to me and be able to take at
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the library of Steam games that I
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already own and play quite a few of them
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via GeForce now it's it's very
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intriguing and as much as I love stadia
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and I love the experience in the way
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stadia works and the cleanliness of all
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of it until the games that I want to
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play are there GeForce now is just the
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way that I'm gonna go and I'm excited to
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tell you all that you don't have to go
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buy any special stuff you can probably
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use something you have laying around
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right now just install the app and plug
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your peripherals in download your games
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and start playing but guys that's it for
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