Nvidia brings PC version GeForce Now to Shield box with Android TV

Nvidia has updated its game streaming service GeForce Now on the Shield set-top box with Android TV. The update means that the service for PC and Mac now also runs on the Shield.

GeForce Now, like Nvidia announced for PC and Mac early last year, is coming to the Shield soon, Engadget writes based on an announcement from Nvidia. This is the beta service that allows users to install their own games, if supported and purchased through Steam, Uplay or Blizzard Battle.net, on a virtualized gaming PC in Nvidia’s data centers. 1TB is available and Nvidia takes care of updating drivers and games.

The service is mainly intended to enable gaming at high settings and with good frame rates on less powerful hardware. It is required that a user has at least a 25Mbit/s connection. During the free trial phase, users can play a game for up to four hours. They will probably have to pay a certain amount for a certain number of hours at the final introduction, but when the service will be offered commercially and what the prices will be is unknown.

With the update, the existing game streaming service that was already present on the Shield will expire. Confusingly, this one was also called GeForce Now, but it was designed in a different way. This was a subscription service. For 9.99 euros per month, players could run unlimited games from a collection of sixty titles on their system.