Nvidia's solution loses more partners in exchange for more support from Ubisoft. Lower in the list of withdrawn companies.
Nvidia has reported that its streaming video game platform for PC, GeForce Now, has lost the support of larger publishers: Xbox Game Studios (Microsoft), Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Codemasters and Klei Entertainment. Starting next April 24, all the titles of the aforementioned companies will disappear from the on-demand service, although Ubisoft, for its part, will offer even more support.
Goodbye Gears, Halo, Formula 1, Batman, Forza Motorsport …
Thus, to the Bethesda Softworks, Activision Blizzard and 2K Games we must add the largest withdrawal of support for GeForce Now to date, since only Microsoft has about fifteen internal development studios (343 Industries; The Coalition; Compulsion Games; The Initiative; inXilie Entertainment; Minecraft; Ninja Theory; Obsidian Entertainment; Playground Games; Rare; Moon Studios, Turn 10 Studios; Undead Labs and Double Fine). In this way, sagas like Gears, Halo or Forza will not see the light in GeForce Now.
Xbox Game Studios | Microsoft is working on its own cloud service, Project xCloud, by 2020.
Neither will the works of Batman: Arkham from Rocksteady Studios or Mortal Kombat, among others. Codemasters, meanwhile, dismisses works such as the official license of Formula 1, Project CARS (since the purchase of Slightly Mad Studios) or DiRT Rally. Of Klei Entertainment it is possible to emphasize names like Mark of the Ninja, Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included.
Neither Nvidia nor the companies that have announced to stop supporting GeForce Now have offered the reason for this breakup.
How is GeForce Now different from Google Stadia
One of the main hallmarks of Nvidia with GeForce Now, unlike Google's solution with Google Stadia, is that this new alternative of video games through streaming does not sell video games separately. We are not facing a store with titles executable through the cloud, but the subscription enables a huge library of games that run from Nvidia's servers to all kinds of devices: laptops, Macs, tablets, Nvidia Shield, Android devices …
