Nvidia GeForce Now is a huge success – despite losing big games

There’s simply no more room for paying subscribers

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Nvidia’s GeForce Nowhas sold out of Founders memberships – in other words, slots for paying subscribers – in Europe, with the situation in the US apparently being the same.

In a forum post,Nvidiaannounced: “As you can imagine, we’re experiencing a substantial increase in the number of GeForce Now players and their amount of playtime.

“As a result, our Founders memberships are currently sold out in Europe and we anticipate North America won’t be far behind.”

However, looking atNvidia’s US site, it appears that memberships have also now run out in that region.

So theexitof anumberofmajor game publishersfrom Nvidia’s streaming service doesn’t appear to have put off folks wishing to subscribe – although as the above post hints, we could also be seeing another ramification of coronavirus here (with people staying at home, and looking to entertain themselves on their PC or other devices).

Nvidia says it’s working to open up additional subscription slots by adding more servers to the GeForce Now data centers, and you can sign up to benotifiedof when further capacity is available.

Freebie only

You can, of course, still sign up for the free GeForce Now tier, although you don’t get priority access (meaning you’ll be queuing a while) and play-time is limited to one hour (you can’t benefit from RTX graphics either).

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One point to remember is that Nvidia’s initial offer for those signing up (with their payment details) for a Founders membership is the ability to cancel in the first three months, without penalty.

So one theory is there may be quite a few people who treated this as a better way to get a free trial, as it were, than the actual free tier – and thus when the initial three months is up, a fair bit of capacity might possibly be freed as those gamers leave (if theyaren’t happywith the aforementioned high-profile publisher departures).

We shall see, of course, but whatever the outside influencing factors might be – if any – the popularity of GeForce Now’s subscription service can’t be denied, at least not going by the situation right now.

Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).

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