Nvidia and Valve have each expressed curiosity in bettering the GeForce Now expertise on the Steam Deck (opens in new tab). The sport streaming service already operates on Valve’s handheld console, nevertheless, it requires customers besides up a browser and the controls may be fairly funky in consequence. A local Steam app might be the reply to creating the streaming expertise an entire lot simpler on the system.
Nvidia’s GeForce Now product supervisor Andrew Concern has confirmed that each Nvidia and Steam had been curious about streamlining the GeForce Now expertise on the Steam Deck.
“There’s not a local app on Steam deck right now,” says Concern. “Use a Chromium browser to make it work. I’d say that each Nvidia and Valve, I feel we’re each curious about making [GeForce Now on Steam Deck] higher. However we haven’t any bulletins on a local app coming to Steam.”
Different streaming-first handhelds, reminiscent of Razer’s Edge (opens in new tab) and Logitech’s G Cloud (opens in new tab) have already got native apps by the use of Nvidia’s GeForce Now Android app. The Steam Deck, as a Linux machine, sadly would not.
The Steam Deck GeForce Now expertise has improved since we first tried it out on the console, but it surely’s removed from a modern possibility. GeForce Now works in-browser, which the Steam Deck’s tiny display would not essentially make for straightforward navigation of. The management scheme, too, may be awkward provided that the Deck’s controls can carry out in another way in a browser atmosphere.
And should you’re questioning why you would possibly wish to stream onto your Steam Deck, it is primarily a consideration for saving battery or accessing unavailable and demanding video games. Streaming massively reduces the workload on the Steam Deck’s {hardware}, permitting for the system to run for for much longer. Equally there isn’t any probability of enjoying The Witcher 3 in full ray-traced glory on the Steam Deck with out beaming it from the cloud.
Concern additionally prompt that Nvidia was eager to assist racing wheels on its streaming service, however once more has nothing particular to say on that entrance proper now.
Nvidia simply introduced a significant uplift for the highest tier of its GeForce Now service. The brand new Final tier will provide gamers an RTX 4080 within the cloud (opens in new tab), for $20 a month (£18 per 30 days/€20 per 30 days). It will convey with it a brand new 240Hz aggressive gaming mode, ultrawide assist, and 4K at 120fps.
