Nvidia's 'GeForce Now' gaming service is officially open to early access for India on Thursday. Users interested in the cloud streaming service can sign up for the waitlist on Nvidia's official website.
The service provides users with the ability to stream games from the cloud on their device using the internet, instead of having to rely on expensive hardware. It is available across PC, Mac, smartphones, iPad tablets, handheld devices and more. Users will have access to various online game libraries such as Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox Game Pass, Ubisoft Connect, and GOG.
It features over 4,500 games with more than 2,000 games in the 'Ready to Play' format, which means players won't have to download and install these titles and play them almost instantaneously. It also features over 2,200 games in the 'Install to Play' format, requiring prior downloading and installation. Nvidia is also set to include the option for free access in the coming weeks.
'GeForce Now' will be available on a first-come first-serve basis, and features an exclusive entry level price bracket for early adopters with a 90-day subscription pass at Rs 999 for the Performance Tier and Rs 1,999 for the premium Ultimate Tier for better graphics and resolution. This exclusive offer also includes the option to buy 200 GB of storage for Rs 299.
Users can access popular game titles with demanding performance requirements like 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33', 'Doom: The Dark Ages', 'Cyberpunk 2077', 'Baldur's Gate 3' and 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6' as well as upcoming releases such as Resident Evil developer Capcom's 'PRAGMATA'.
The cloud streaming service runs on Nvidia's Blackwell-based RTX 5080 SuperPOD infrastructure. The firm claims that it can provide up to 2.8 times faster performance than previous generations and over three times the capability of leading consoles.
It offers 62 teraflops of compute performance along with a 48GB frame buffer, it also features AI-driven rendering, ray tracing, and DLSS.
How Indian Gamers May Benefit
India leads the global gaming market in terms of annual mobile gaming downloads according to Sensor Tower, with it being a viable option for users due to its low cost for entry. Another barrier to entry is the increase in the prices of PC parts such as RAM and SSD storage and GPU (graphic processing units), due to burgeoning demands from AI data centres for similar parts.
These factors may make GeForce the more affordable option with the early access option costing roughly Rs 333 per month for the base service instead of having to spend thousands and lakhs of rupees on gaming hardware.
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