We could very well be looking at the building blocks for a truly next-gen gaming console.
I’m just about as platform agnostic as they come when video games are involved. I’ll happily waste a Saturday building levels in Super Mario Maker on the Wii-U with my kids, swap out my camera and pile of phones for my HOTAS setup for some Elite: Dangerous on my PC when the work day is over, get sucked in to another Bungie epic with Destiny on my PS4, or address my strangely emotional response to Cortana’s mental state in Halo on my Xbox One. I’ll play mobile games on my phone, second screen games on my tablet, and I’ve even been known to carry around a PS Vita or Nintendo 3DS on the off chance there’s a free minute when travelling.
Recently, NVIDIA invited me to participate in some early testing of their GeForce Now service, previously known as GRID Gaming Beta. It’s not for everyone, and there’s still some bugs to sort out, but after a couple of days with the final version of this service I think NVIDIA has all the right parts for a truly next-gen console.
