NVIDIA’s first GeForce NOW update of 2026 mentions new games but “forgets” to mention the new 100-hour cap NVIDIA opened 2026 with a GeForce NOW Thursday
Something to think about. GeForce Now isn’t about making it so you can play video games no matter your own hardware. It’s a test bed to show that cloud based hardware rental is a viable and achievable goal for the likes of Micro$oft etc. it’s a proof of concept for those companies to “show” that people would be “happier” renting their hardware than buying personal computers.
Long term goal is to price the average user out of the computer market and have them just buy a dumb terminal to do their computing on. This will also have average income gamers not able to buy a PC and instead be forced to rent one. This was M$ goal about 20 yrs ago, but internet speeds weren’t good enough for the ~30% if the population of the world they care about. These days we are getting much closer to that being a high enough % of people with good enough internet to start pricing people out of their luxury gaming PCs. And eventually grandma is going to be buying a preset Chromeb00k style laptop to connect to a subscription based service so she can check her email.
Been drinking tonight, but this idea has been sticking with me for more than a year, punctuated by the recent Micron public statement.
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Something to think about. GeForce Now isn’t about making it so you can play video games no matter your own hardware. It’s a test bed to show that cloud based hardware rental is a viable and achievable goal for the likes of Micro$oft etc. it’s a proof of concept for those companies to “show” that people would be “happier” renting their hardware than buying personal computers.
Long term goal is to price the average user out of the computer market and have them just buy a dumb terminal to do their computing on. This will also have average income gamers not able to buy a PC and instead be forced to rent one. This was M$ goal about 20 yrs ago, but internet speeds weren’t good enough for the ~30% if the population of the world they care about. These days we are getting much closer to that being a high enough % of people with good enough internet to start pricing people out of their luxury gaming PCs. And eventually grandma is going to be buying a preset Chromeb00k style laptop to connect to a subscription based service so she can check her email.
Been drinking tonight, but this idea has been sticking with me for more than a year, punctuated by the recent Micron public statement.