1 yr. ago • 97%

$6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe

www.theregister.com Nvidia jacks up GeForce Now pricing in Canada and Europe

Cites 'increased operational costs' but whatever they are US gamers aren't impacted

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Typical capitalism. At least there are other competitors. I hope AMD and Intel can take advantage of this news and undercut Nvidia maybe.

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- Nono, they raise prices with parity such that they’re still technically minimally cheaper.
  
  That being said, I don’t think AMD and Intel have similar game streaming services. It’s pretty much GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud streaming as the big dogs.
  
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  Do we need cloud streaming? Honestly.
  
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Nein! - Doch! - Ohh!

Of course a new service only stays cheap until they reached critical mass. Same with gamepass and every subscription services. That's why I try to subscribe to as little as possible. Oh, btw Netflix does again increase prices too.

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- 100usd for ad free youtube 2034
  
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  People in this sub were insisting YouTube should be a subscription service (hilariously, "from launch") in the YouTube ad-blocker thread lol
  
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  *250 USDT ftfy
  
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  Per week
  
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subscriptions == Corpo tax for the plebs

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- 🙄
  
  I've spent $75 for 3 years of gamepass. It has been hands down without argument the best value in gaming I've ever seen in a service. You are delusional.
  
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  Almost like they price it cheap until they conquer the market, then jack up prices
  
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  I can still boot up games I've owned since the age of 5 or games on steam that lost their licensing like Prey (2006) or some Lego games, come back to me next month when you can't play Persona 5 Royal as it's getting pulled due to licensing. Time and time again, subscription models are great value until a point where the market share is big enough and the user base is invested enough that the price gets hiked. Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't make me delusional, and frankly that was a pretty rude comment.
  
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  And they will definitely not charge you more for it when they are a monopoly, no siree
  
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  game pass is a really good value if you ask me I don't pay for it anymore but I have for a while
  
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  Spoken like a true sucker. You're exactly what these giant corporations want you to be.
  
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Price increases seem inevitable for any service where a company licenses content to stream to customers. GeForce Now is going to be in a constant cycle of content agreements expiring and creators wanting more money, that extra cost gets passed on to customers. Contrast that with just buying a game, buy it once and you're done (generally.)

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- I don't use the service, but I believe you bring and install your own games. They're just offering a remote computer.
  
  At least, last I checked.
  
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  I believe back when it was in beta a good few years ago, it was a remote PC, but now it’s only whatever games are on the service, with more added about every week via licensing them. You do, however, bring your own games, that part is right, just you can only play the ones you own that are licensed to be run on it.
  
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  Back when it was free for shield users, it was game streaming
  
  Now I just get ads on my shield for a bunch of new releases I can buy for streaming on it
  
  Gamestream (remote pc) was something else but I guess it’s incorporated into it now
  
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  Ah I didn't understand that. That's almost worse though, that's buying the game and then paying to play it.
  
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I still support buying a decent graphics card and a game rather than paying a subscription while also buying the game. Their basic plans costs 10 euro per month which is 240 euro for 2 years which is average cost for a decent gaming card. And best part is you own it. You can get NVIDIA 3060 for that amount. Which is amazing card.

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- A 3060 is only 240 euro?
  
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  You can get them for $399 here in Canada which converts to 276 euro. Seems reasonable they might be able to find one for 240 in their region.
  
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  Got the 12GB one for 200€ last week for my gf.
  
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- I would rather get rx 6650 xt for gaming primarily. Don't know about RTX 4000 series or RX 7000 series though.
  
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- Geforce Now is not at all about cost to me. I use GeForce Now because it allows me to play on my laptop, tablet, phone or TV anywhere I have an internet connection. I don't have or want a desktop, and prefer to have a thin and light laptop for travel rather than a gaming laptop.
  
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- 89kr/month for Denmark. That's 2136DKK for 2 years of continuous service. The cheapest RTX 3060 right now is 2199DKK. But guess what? I don't have a tower pc. So I would need a CPU, memory, storage, case, PSU. I won't bother putting together a system but if I search the web budget builds are set for around 800USD atm. That'd be around 5600DKK or more than 5 years of GeForce Now. Tbh I think it's not a bad deal.
  
  Besides, as a casual gamer I keep cancelling the service when I don't need it. Right now I'm signed up because I enjoy starfield. I'll probably unsubscribe when I'm done with that. Or at least over Christmas because I know I won't have time to game.
  
  Plus I love the flexibility of streaming to my TV, tablet, phone, laptop.
  
  My biggest problem is that it's neither possible to pirate games nor mod them. Shadow is the solution for that but it's too expensive IMO.
  
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- Two years of subscription buys a ps5 or a steamdeck, if one want the "easy" experience
  
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- Buy the hardware so you can offset the costs by pirating all the games
  
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- Then you would have to buy the games and the rest of the computer too.
  
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Its never enough. Its called unlimited growth. Its why most of us aren't going to live until our natural death age, but will likely perish due to environmental factors like extreme weather, plague, famine, etc. Its gonna start sucking at around 3C.

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Man everybody's hiking up prices. Where's the money gonna come from to pay these, though? Considering thanks to inflation a lot of us have to use that money for more important things like... food.

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- People are still paying these prices. All industries are booming. Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour made like $750M. Most countries went overboard on stimulus spending during covid. To the tune of trillions of dollars. That money is still slowly making its way into the economy. I think it will take years to normalise. In the mean time, US debt is at $33T and climbing fast, meaning we should expect QE at some time in the future, exacerbating inflation further.
  
  The prescribed solution to this mess is crystal clear: higher taxes AND reduced spending. Both. At the same time. Very important. Otherwise we should expect inflation and rates to remain high for the foreseeable future.
  
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But line has to go up

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yeah, that's the goal of any company. Why is this news?

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I think I saw somewhere that one could setup something similar using an AWS instance with a gaming GPU and some opensource app for the streaming part? Has someone tried that? How does it compare in terms of costs to NVidia's GeForce Now?

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- I doubt it'll work as well and it's probably more expensive
  
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- There are some projects form a few years ago. Mostly using Parsec but there might be more, even open source, options in that area.
  
  But all the DIY solutions will require you to have some knowledge in regards to public clouds. But all-in-all they shouldn't be that expensive as they generally make use of cheap instances and automatic shutdowns. So you only pay for the time you are actually playing plus the storage.
  
  One quick search showed https://github.com/badjware/aws-cloud-gaming but I can't say anything about the working state of that repository. But it should be a good starting point.
  
  Another link https://github.com/LGUG2Z/parsec-ec2
  
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- I’ve done it years ago. If I remember correctly it was more expensive than GF Now
  
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What a dumb article title

Their 6.2b profit wasn’t from GeForce Now, it was from their overpriced GPU’s.

Products are priced based on their cost/value, not the companies overall profit margins

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- And game streaming is such a profitable market segment too. I mean look at how well Stadia is doing.
  
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  They failed because no one could trust them. I never bought into it at all because I knew one day they'd shut it down, and they did.
  
  Google ruined their reputation, and people are going to have a tough time buying into anything they release. I really only buy their phones and use their services that I am not tied into, such as YouTube, Maps, Translate, etc. All of their services where I am buying things, or hosting my data, I jumped shipped a couple years ago.
  
  I mean shit, I bought their Google WiFi and they just straight up fucked all their users and released their Nest WiFi, pretending the Google WiFi doesn't exist.
  
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- Products are priced based on their cost/value
  
  Ah, yes and the world is full of rational actors with perfect information.
  
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- "Products are priced based on their cost/value, not the companies overall profit margins"
  
  It doesn't take much to observe that this is just incorrect.
  
  That's how it's supposed to work, and they teach that in your Intro to Economics course, but in reality it just doesn't work that way.
  
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  It does, it's just that the "value" gets fucked and manipulated in ways that are bad for the consumer
  
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