It also complicates the question of exclusives, which are definitionally tied to a specific hardware or software platform.
The best way to get devs to invest in building quality ports is to create sales opportunities for those projects. Why would customers buy a platform-localized version of a game if they can purchase it on PC and stream it everywhere? While this added to some of the development costs, you wanted to be able to provide a Day 1 release of equal quality across multiple platforms. Imagine that you developed a game with plans to release on PC, Mac, and Android simultaneously. There's also a potential revenue loss in play. If a popular game doesn't work properly on GeForce Now, the dev team could be hit by requests to fix problems on a platform they've never worked with and haven't previously supported. As soon as Nvidia started charging, the company was creating revenue for itself by providing a service - and at least some publishers don't consider existing contracts with Steam and Nvidia sufficient to cover that use-case.
It doesn't have a deal with Nvidia.Įvidently companies were willing to overlook the fact that Nvidia had injected itself into the software distribution process when Team Green wasn't trying to make money at it. The publisher has a deal with Valve to distribute games on Steam. When Nvidia streams Steam games to other devices, it's effectively distributing games to those platforms as well, without permission from the developer of the title or the publisher. Publishers and game developers, however, see things differently. If your networking hardware is fast enough to handle the service, it's easy to see the appeal - from the consumer's perspective. You pay $5 per month for GeForce Now (a free tier is also available), and you can stream any of your Steam games to your Android device, laptop, desktop, Mac, or Nvidia Shield. From a consumer's perspective, the service is great. One of the distinct features of GeForce Now is the fact that it draws on your own Steam library. Activision-Blizzard, 2K, Bethesda, and Konami have refused to work with Nvidia on GeForce Now as well. Interactive Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios will be leaving the service.
As of Friday April 24, games from Codemasters, Klei Entertainment, Warner Bros. Nvidia's GeForce Now service has lost another set of publishers.
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