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How’s NVIDIA GeForce Now doing?
Pretty damn well, actually.
It made me wonder if Microsoft can realistically catch up to NVIDIA in this space.
World of Warcraft on cloud … it works!
GeForce NOW allows you to play PC games on Xbox through the Microsoft Edge app!
Heres a video from Reddit user ReapsNoEviL of World of Warcraft being played on Xbox.
They say it runs super smooth on ultra tweaks.
Then I remembered I’d be on hotel Wi-Fi.
NVIDIA proved me wrong.
More on that in a minute.
The important thing is that, right now, it does work, and it works incredibly well.
There does seem to be some caveats, though.
… with caveats!
Convinced NVIDIA GeForce Now is dark magic.
World of Warcraft cloud.
Picture quality suffers at this speed (JPEG-y), but responsiveness again feels almost native.
So, no boss mods.
No mods at all, actually.
WoW is quite fine to play without these mods if you’re particularly well-learned, for sure.
WoW has greatly improved its basic UI in recent years, making it a solid experience without mods.
Even on my very limited hotel Wi-Fi, I was getting close to a native experience.
Can Xbox play catch up here?
Xbox is night, in this scenario.
I tried DOOM 64 on the same Wi-Fi, and the experience was just impossible.
Constant Star Wars-like screen wipes prevented play, bursts of unresponsiveness made it difficult to control.
There are many barriers to the general adoption of cloud gaming, of course.
Cloud gaming definitely has its work cut out.
Will Microsoft be happier simply providing the content for others to lock down the technological aspects?
It certainly remains to be seen.
