Xbox Games Have Begun Launching on NVIDIA GeForce NOW - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 May 2023 / 3,902 Views
Microsoft announced Xbox games on PC have begun launching on NVIDIA GeForce NOW today.
Gears 5 is now available to members in the US, UK, European Union, and around the world. On May 25, Deathloop, Grounded, and Pentiment will be made available on the service. More titles will be added on a regular basis.
NVIDIA GeForce NOW members will be able to stream PC games from Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda purchased on Steam or Epic Games Store (for eligible games) on PC, Mac, SHIELD TV, Android devices, and by visiting play.geforcenow.com on Chromebook and iOS Safari.
"This is just the beginning stage of our forward-thinking 10-year partnership with NVIDIA to make PC games from Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda available to their GeForce NOW members," said Xbox Corporate Vice President Sarah Bond. "Together, we’re accelerating access to players around the globe by letting them choose how and when they game.
"The initial slate of launch games spans our catalog, providing players high-quality, immersive titles with a little something for everyone–single player campaigns, story-driven experiences, and opportunities to play with friends and family through multiplayer. Following this initial release, we’ll continue to add more content from our portfolio on a regular basis to ensure players can always find a new and exciting game."
Bond added, "This is the first in a series of partnerships we’re activating to make our PC games available to players globally through a variety of cloud gaming services, starting with NVIDIA GeForce NOW, and with Boosteroid, Ubitus, EE and Nware in the future. We remain committed to releasing current titles from Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda, and future Activision Blizzard PC games once Microsoft’s acquisition closes."
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Assuming the CMA and FTC succeed, is Microsoft going to cancel this or keep these deals in place minus COD of course.
Not sure what benefit it would be to not have the games on the service as they have already made the sale and this is just extra for customers to be able to stream the games they own from Steam or Epic or wherever. But then Bethesda removed their games once...
They would still want clout. So expect them to remove it.
How petty. Already made the sale and money so in what way does it hurt them? Here I was thinking they wanted to get their games in as many hands as possible and allowing people to play them how they wanted and it wasn't about control.
Thats exactly what they are doing, getting the games on as many platforms as possible.
It’ll help with future acquisitions to keep these deals in place. So MS could tell regulators, “see, those deals weren’t just publicity stunts. We followed up on our promises”
Why would they do that? That would be so bad and future interaction with regulators would be a pain from the start.
Because its part of the deal. If the deal fails than there is no deal or incentives to keep the games on Nvidia Now.
They will most likely pull the games off the service.
Seems unlikely. Msft makes money selling games. If more people have a way to play said games, then those games will make more sales and Msft will make more money. Yes you could say there is cannibalisation between the services but most likely it is a net positive for Msft which has been seen in other similar circumstances.
