2020 seems not a good year for Nvidia as 2K Games has just decided to pull out of Nvidia's GeForce game streaming platform. With that, Nvidia now has a few partners.
Recently, Activision Blizzard Games, Bethesda Softworks, and other studios have reported left GeForce. Most of the most popular games are not available on this platform anymore, which makes fans ask the question, is this streaming platform still worth it? Nvidia confirmed 2K Games withdrawal from the platform was on Friday afternoon, Mar. 6.
Nvidia's GeForce loses 2K Games
Nvidia GeForce is getting desperate
With the loss of Activision Blizzard and Bethesda Softworks, the gaming platform started to crumble as other publishers like Rockstar Games, Square Enix, and even Capcom also started to leave as well. The loss of these major game publishers has immediately crippled Nvidia's GeForce from the starting launch of its streaming platform. This has resulted in Nvidia even putting games on their platforms without proper approval from the developers, which has then backfired even more. It seems like they are out of moves, and if people do not pick up on this gaming platform, they may run straight into the ground.
The concept is quite brilliant
Instead of having to download and buy every single game which gamers want to play, Nvidia's idea was to offer a streaming platform for them to be able to play the games in a while, just paying a subscription fee per month! This sounds like a brilliant idea, but there are quite a few loopholes in this platform's concept. The first would be, how would Nvidia's GeForce pay the gaming publishers, and wouldn't they become a direct competition to the very publishers whose games they are featuring?
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The second and most critical downside to this streaming option is from the gamer's perspective wherein a gamer does not always stream through games but rather push on a single game for a while until that player has finished the whole game or is rather tired of the game. In any case, streaming games are not really a culture among gamers, so it may be hard to pitch the idea. It would be nice to try new games every once in a while, but for the longevity of subscription, this does not seem too attractive to the professional gamer. The worst part is that gamers can only play the games they already own on Steam, Ubisoft's uPlay, or the Epic Games Store. This sounds like quite a waste.
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What is Nvidia's Geforce doing now?
Apparently, GeForce is offering a really affordable package but is first trying to attract players with a one-hour free trial session to everyone and sells their membership for $4.99 per month, which goes on for the next nine months and offers unlimited game time for players. Nvidia's GeForce is in trouble if they do not bring better games to their platform, but after the loss of massive publisher companies, who would still partner with them?
