Post by Morreion on Nov 13, 2014 16:16:50 GMT -5
Nvidia’s 'Netflix for Games' launches (CNBC)
Nvidia tried to bridge its mobile and PC gamer audiences earlier this year with the well-reviewed Shield Android tablet; now it's going to find out if it can be the one to deliver their games as well.
Starting this month in North America and next year in Europe and Asia, the graphics card company will roll out its Grid game streaming service for the Shield Tablet as well as its predecessor device, the handheld mini-tablet/gamepad now called the Shield Portable. Rather than streaming games from an Nvidia-chipped PC as the devices already do, it will pull them down from the cloud, much as Sony's PlayStation Now service does on the PlayStation 4.
"PlayStation Now is based on PS3 chips, which Nvidia designed about 10 years ago," Grid general manager Phil Eisler said in an interview. Ouch! According to its own benchmark tests, Nvidia says Grid is 12 times as powerful and gets twice the frame rate as games streamed over PS Now.
Nvidia tried to bridge its mobile and PC gamer audiences earlier this year with the well-reviewed Shield Android tablet; now it's going to find out if it can be the one to deliver their games as well.
Starting this month in North America and next year in Europe and Asia, the graphics card company will roll out its Grid game streaming service for the Shield Tablet as well as its predecessor device, the handheld mini-tablet/gamepad now called the Shield Portable. Rather than streaming games from an Nvidia-chipped PC as the devices already do, it will pull them down from the cloud, much as Sony's PlayStation Now service does on the PlayStation 4.
"PlayStation Now is based on PS3 chips, which Nvidia designed about 10 years ago," Grid general manager Phil Eisler said in an interview. Ouch! According to its own benchmark tests, Nvidia says Grid is 12 times as powerful and gets twice the frame rate as games streamed over PS Now.
