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Have you looked into using Geforce Now with your friend? It's a fantastic service and works on OSX.

Yes, used this before Stadia and it was rubbish.

No where near as good and as stable as Stadia, also the monthly fee is a pain. With Stadia you can just buy the game and then play when you want, I don't think there is anything else like that.

It's come a long way since pre-Stadia that's for sure. Can't get around the monthly fee though.

Is performance better now? I was in the beta when there wasn't a limited selection of games and my friend used the free version once it came out of beta about a year and a half ago.

It's been my main gaming platform the last 2 years and I'd describe it as more than serviceable. They do a bunch of free demos now - I think WaveTale is free for the next 24hrs you can try it out yourself. The subscription is optional.

Its performance is unparalleled among cloud gaming services at the moment with the updates over the past year or so, Stadia is now a blurry, poorly upscaled mess in comparison, often locked at 30-45fps for certain titles while GFN is pushing real 4K at 120FPS with full ray tracing etc without breaking a sweat.

https://youtu.be/B1bIGi1yjC8

It will routinely outperform a local series x (nevermind a PS5) given the right conditions, but that’s subject to your ISP, location, and probably not running CP2077 at maxed out ultra RTX graphics settings just yet.

It was their streaming tech though that wasn't as good, rather than their rending of graphics as it was just a blurry mess and laggy.

Will give it another try.

That’s likely just Google burning cash to attract users though. Unsustainable.

The cloud time is the expensive part and most of the purchase price is likely going to go to the publisher. How many hours of gameplay before they’ve lost money on your purchase?

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