After launching a “beta set up technique”, Nvidia goes all in on bringing its streaming service, GeForce Now to the Steam Deck. The graphics card firm can be launching a local app for the Linux-based system in order that avid gamers can stream AAA video games instantly from the cloud to their handheld.
The Steam Deck continues to be among the finest handheld gaming PC choices obtainable. Nonetheless, even the Steam Deck can’t play the whole lot, as its comparatively weak {hardware} is shortly outpaced by demanding AAA video games. That is the place Nvidia sees itself stepping in with its streaming service.
GeForce Now has been praised for its efficiency as a video games streaming service, with low latency, a variety of video games, and nice efficiency. Nonetheless, to make use of GeForce Now on the Steam Deck proper now, you need to leap by means of a couple of hoops, quite than having the ability to simply use a single, easy obtain. That’s what Nvidia is trying to change with its new native Steam Deck GeForce Now app.
GeForce Now permits subscribers to stream video games at as much as 4K and 240fps, in addition to entry video games that may not usually have the ability to run on the Steam Deck’s lower-end {hardware}. As an illustration, video games equivalent to Stalker 2 and Black Fantasy: Wukong can be found on the service.
With its new app, although, Nvidia says that if the hand held is connected over a supported dock, you’ll have the ability to stand up to “1440p 120fps HDR” out of your Steam Deck, with the precise monitor or TV setup.
If Nvidia is launching a local Steam Deck app for GeForce Now, there’s good cause to hope the corporate will launch a model of the app that runs on Linux as a complete. The Steam Deck is working a customized model of Arch Linux, so it’s not too outlandish to imagine that it received’t take an excessive amount of further effort to develop its help a little bit additional.
GeForce Now got here below fireplace just lately, as Nvidia culled how a lot time you would spend on the service. Reasonably than permitting customers to stream indefinitely as soon as they’ve snagged a spot on the mid-ranged Efficiency subscription, you may solely get six hours of playtime earlier than being kicked off.
Even these paying the complete whack for the Final service can solely get eight hours earlier than having to log out and log again in once more for a brand new session.
Nvidia can also be planning to help GeForce Now on Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional, in addition to the Meta Quest 3 and 3S. That is going to be finished by means of a browser, quite than a local app, although.
There’s presently no date set for the brand new GeForce Now Steam Deck app’s launch, however Nvidia states that it ought to be obtainable later in 2025.
It’s an extremely busy week for Nvidia, as CES 2025 has seen the corporate launch its next-generation {hardware}, the RTX 5000 collection. This consists of the ludicrously costly RTX 5090, which is its latest flagship graphics card packing 32GB of VRAM for $2000.
