Nvidia doubles the price of GeForce Now membership

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Nvidia's GeForce Today is celebrating its second year of existence by bumping up the price from $4.99 (£4.99) a calendar month to $9.99 (£8.99) as of nowadays. Existing users that have signed up with the Founders rank scheme will continue on the new pricing plan, but new members will only have the option of the new Antecedence Rank at the higher price.

As it approaches 10 million members, Nvidia says it is improving the quality of service for all members, with added capacity and two new information centres coming online soon. Thither are also improvements on the way to get users in games quicker, with account linking for key games and updates to pre-loading that should cut load times by fractional.

GeForce Now has seen plenty of updates to keep it fashionable with late releases, and there are now nearly 800 games supported by the service. On average, 10 new games are added weekly, and Nvidia plans to increase this by 50 pct away the end of the year.

The price increase is very much in line with new cyclosis services, the nearly obvious of which is Netflix, which has seen a number of price bumps since it prototypical shook up the TV scene. Even so, this is a big Mary Leontyne Pric increase Nvidia is expiration for in one move, as conflicting to several smaller ones.

$5 for a gaming service that involves no downloading and whole kit and boodle with so umteen games seems like the kind of throwaway mass that is Charles Frederick Worth having. The jumpstart to $10 is just enough to make us stop and wonder whether it's however something worth having, peculiarly A most of us are paying for plenty of past services at the same time.

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