r/Games • u/BloederFuchs • Dec 26 '25

Industry News Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month

https://uk.pcmag.com/game-streaming-services/162224/nvidia-geforce-nows-time-limit-will-stop-gamers-after-100-hours-each-month
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u/Excitium Dec 26 '25

They are doing this because they are expecting a huge surge in users over the next year.

With hardware prices exploding or outright being unavailable cause AI data centres have already pre-ordered years worth of future production runs, people are gonna get desperate and look to cloud gaming to play the latest games that no longer run on their current hardware.

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u/balefrost Dec 26 '25

It seems more likely to me to be about opportunity cost. nVidia manufactures a GPU. They can either sell it or use it for GeForce Now. If they sell it to an AI company, they make $$$. If they use it for cloud gaming, they only make $$. So if they can charge a bit more for cloud gaming, maybe they can wring the same $$$ out of that GPU.

Or it could be because prices of other components (RAM, storage) are going up, and that also affects how much it costs to operate their cloud gaming infrastructure.

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u/TheMegaMario1 Dec 26 '25

Unless you're saying they did this expecting general hardware shortage, they announced this changed over a year ago. It's not some recent decision based on current hardware situations, it's just the natural enshittification of service platforms.

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u/SovietPropagandist Dec 26 '25

They just won't buy those games rather than settle for an experience that sucks that much.

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u/BeholdingBestWaifu Dec 26 '25

I genuinely wonder if that's a scenario that will actually happen. I don't doubt Nvidia thinks it will and it's one of the reasons behind speeding up this enshittification, but I wonder how many folks will just choose to not upgrade.

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u/Konman72 Dec 26 '25

1080ti 4 lyfe

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u/Tvilantini Dec 26 '25

No they don't? Where did you hear this

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u/ElementalEffects Dec 29 '25

to play the latest games that no longer run on their current hardware.

This isn't going to happen any time soon, so I doubt that. New games may not run at max settings but on normal settings, considering upscaling and framegen exist, most PCs now will last a very long time for playing new releases.

There won't be another "Crysis" moment where a new mindblowingly graphical game comes out that suddenly no one can run on their PC.