G-Force Now has me somewhat confused... what is this service?
 
I think the explanation on their splash page could be a little more clear. At first I thought it was a streaming service for games, but my impressions now are that it allows you to stream games in your own libraries on other stores (Steam, Epic, Origin etc.)... Steam already allows something like this to an extent with their mobile app. which boots the game on your home PC then allows you to stream it on your Wi-Fi enabled devices as long as you're on the same network as the host PC.
 
The mechanics of G-Force Now sound like the software license in your personal gaming libraries is somehow transferred to Nvidia, and their cloud servers run the game, and allow you to play anywhere? Is this correct?
 
**If the above is true, then I'm also a little baffled by their business plan. Why would a company that engineers graphics cards want cloud gaming to work? Wouldn't this cut their market share right out from under them? I mean, if I can spend $5.00 per month and cloud game, with little to no lag, why the world would I go out and buy a GPU for $800.00?
 
**It would be different if the service was a cloud gaming scenario where I could try a whole bunch of games I don't own. Similar to other subscription based gaming platforms, only in the cloud, I have a feeling I'm not understanding their service though.

I think I finally figured out why it is actually a good idea for Nvidia to do this...
 
 
(1) They provide a middle-ground of sorts to get people hooked on gaming easily ,
 (2) but the experience is more than somewhat not up to par with the latest & greatest gaming
 
 ( 3 ) - so people then think they will buy hardware to build their own system to make a more enjoyable experience for themselves... 
 
WIN _ WIN  for Nvidia ! 
 
 
but if that's not it - I also don't understand why a hardware sales company would try to convince people to stop buying hardware ..?? 
 
 

Makes me wonder if it's just the same old cloud gaming tech that gets released over the last few years where it's launched and you hear about it for a few months and it folds and some other company buys the patents on the tech, rinse and repeat. Cloud gaming has been attempted for years now. Nvidia is throwing good money after bad on this one.

I think that the best thing NVIDIA has over Google is the game library is up to the user with NVIDIA. Since the games are owned it's unlikely to see the list of supported games change month to month while with Google people could be playing Witcher 3 put in like 80 hours and then find the game is no longer available the next month.

Seems like a lot of the Devs are now removing their games from the service...
 
Looks like none of them will be around long at this pace...