We may be starting to see the results of an announcement made over a year ago, so Nvidia and Microsoft may be aligning their cloud service.
On February 21, 2023, Microsoft announced an agreement with Nvidia to bring its PC games to GeForce Now. The move was clearly intended to get regulators to allow the $68.7 billion deal to go through and make Redmond’s Activision Blizzard king. That has since happened, so after ZeniMax, another publisher has been swallowed up by Microsoft. A few months later, Microsoft took the next logical step and slowly began allowing PC Game Pass subscribers to play certain games through GeForce Now. Over time, the list of available games grew significantly.
Even tighter integration is on the way, and now we may see some developments for console users, as several users have reported being able to stream Street Fighter 6, Resident Evil: Village, and Call of Duty: Warzone via GeForce Now on their Xbox consoles! This comes as a surprise, as Nvidia’s service is essentially a competitor to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which offers Xbox Cloud Gaming (formerly xCloud).
GeForce Now supports 4K resolution, HDR and up to 240 FPS, has integrated Reflex and G-Sync technology, as well as ray tracing and DLSS upscaling, but it all depends on the tier you subscribe to. Xbox Cloud Gaming only runs at 1080p and 60 FPS. The difference is in the server hardware. With the GeForce Now Ultimate RTX 4080-level configuration, the Xbox cloud service has the Xbox Series X spec (which is calculated to be five times weaker).
Could Microsoft have simply realized that Nvidia’s service is running circles around Xbox Cloud Gaming? All Nvidia has said is that they have nothing to say at the moment, so an announcement is likely to come soon.
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