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I tried call of duty warzone and even this was great multiplayer experience. (Game is a mess with GeForce now, can't remember shader cache and must recreate it every GeForce now session)", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 799810576, "item_id": 49988161, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988161", "by": "Foxhuls", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find it to be indistinguishable from local hardware 95%+ of the time.", "excerpt": "As someone who used to upgrade their GPU every year to the newest top card I find it to be indistinguishable from local hardware 95%+ of the time. It\u2019s fairly mind blowing how well it works. Also just to clarify again I pay for the ultimate or whatever the highest tier of GeForce now is for like $20/month and use it primarily on a wired connection so that\u2019s where my experience comes from. With their service you still", "context": "pays for the ultimate tier, wired connection", "use_case": "cloud game streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 800012240, "item_id": 50000765, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000765", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it impressed me very much (more than stadia and Xbox cloud)", "excerpt": "I used GeForce now for the summer as I wanted to avoid a hot pc in my room. Any game I played with GeForce now I also played local, yes there is a minimal difference, but sometimes I got better feeling with multiplayer as the cloud service had better connection to the game servers than my local provider. 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I no longer need to maintain a gaming PC, find somewhere to keep it, etc. I was so sceptical that streaming games could work but it does, and it is amazing.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming PC games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"}, {"id": 787564688, "item_id": 49222793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222793", "by": "stephen_cagle", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs.", "excerpt": "Ouch, yeah. I hate to say it, but I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs. I hate the lack of competition in the space (Onlive, Google's goofy ass gaming thing), but at this time cloud rendered gaming is at least 1 order of magnitude cheaper than building your own system. 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I hate the lack of competition in the space (Onlive, Google's goofy ass gaming thing), but at this time cloud rendered gaming is at least 1 order of magnitude cheaper than building your own system. I play from a browser tab in Linux. Too high latency for Clair Obscur", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "cloud gaming from Linux browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out"}]}, {"text": ", and some note a limited game catalog and logins or shader caches that reset every session.", "cites": [{"id": 793270048, "item_id": 49579378, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579378", "by": "serbuvlad", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used GFN for a while and it was incredible.", "excerpt": "Cloud gaming is incredible tech, I used GFN for a while and it was incredible. HOWEVER, I will inevitably want to play weird stuff like \"milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk\", Pseudoregalia or Civ V Lekmod, which these cloud services do not offer. The other alternative is \"rent a VM\" systems like Shadow Gaming, but they're much more expensive, and have much worse latency and streaming tech. Also the questio", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "The \"$60 Gaming PC\" \u2013 AMD BC-250 (2025)"}, {"id": 799844608, "item_id": 49990288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990288", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Nvidia GeForce now for some months and must admit that I can't feel a difference most of the time.", "excerpt": "I used Nvidia GeForce now for some months and must admit that I can't feel a difference most of the time. I tried call of duty warzone and even this was great multiplayer experience. (Game is a mess with GeForce now, can't remember shader cache and must recreate it every GeForce now session)", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 801609456, "item_id": 50100591, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100591", "by": "littlecranky67", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use GeforceNow, and everytime I start a new session to play Battlefield 6", "excerpt": "Passkeys are the wet dream of the IP industry. They don't want you account secured from hackers, they want you to be unable to pass your password along to friends and family, so they use it to watch your netflix or play your licensed video games. I use GeforceNow, and everytime I start a new session to play Battlefield 6, EA makes me enter my password and sends me an OTP via email before I can play the game (due to G", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud game streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Near-local feel", "summary": "Several users say they rarely notice a difference from playing on their own hardware.", "quotes": [{"id": 799810576, "item_id": 49988161, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988161", "by": "Foxhuls", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find it to be indistinguishable from local hardware 95%+ of the time.", "excerpt": "As someone who used to upgrade their GPU every year to the newest top card I find it to be indistinguishable from local hardware 95%+ of the time. It\u2019s fairly mind blowing how well it works. 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(Game is a mess with GeForce now, can't remember shader cache and must recreate it every GeForce now session)", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 800012240, "item_id": 50000765, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000765", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it impressed me very much (more than stadia and Xbox cloud)", "excerpt": "I used GeForce now for the summer as I wanted to avoid a hot pc in my room. Any game I played with GeForce now I also played local, yes there is a minimal difference, but sometimes I got better feeling with multiplayer as the cloud service had better connection to the game servers than my local provider. And I will prefer most multiplayer games with my local machine, but it impressed me very much (more than stadia an", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming in summer", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}]}, {"label": "No gaming PC", "summary": "Users like not having to buy, house or maintain a gaming PC, and one calls it far cheaper than building one.", "quotes": [{"id": 780833584, "item_id": 48802099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802099", "by": "munksbeer", "date": "2026-07-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love GeForce Now", "excerpt": "For what it's worth, I love GeForce Now. I no longer need to maintain a gaming PC, find somewhere to keep it, etc. I was so sceptical that streaming games could work but it does, and it is amazing.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming PC games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"}, {"id": 787564688, "item_id": 49222793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222793", "by": "stephen_cagle", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs.", "excerpt": "Ouch, yeah. I hate to say it, but I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs. I hate the lack of competition in the space (Onlive, Google's goofy ass gaming thing), but at this time cloud rendered gaming is at least 1 order of magnitude cheaper than building your own system. I play from a browser tab in Linux. Too high latency for Clair Obscur", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "cloud gaming from Linux browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out"}, {"id": 800012240, "item_id": 50000765, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000765", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it impressed me very much (more than stadia and Xbox cloud)", "excerpt": "I used GeForce now for the summer as I wanted to avoid a hot pc in my room. Any game I played with GeForce now I also played local, yes there is a minimal difference, but sometimes I got better feeling with multiplayer as the cloud service had better connection to the game servers than my local provider. And I will prefer most multiplayer games with my local machine, but it impressed me very much (more than stadia an", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming in summer", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}]}, {"label": "Beats alternatives", "summary": "Users rate it above Stadia, Xbox Cloud, Steam local streaming and Parsec.", "quotes": [{"id": 800012240, "item_id": 50000765, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000765", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it impressed me very much (more than stadia and Xbox cloud)", "excerpt": "I used GeForce now for the summer as I wanted to avoid a hot pc in my room. Any game I played with GeForce now I also played local, yes there is a minimal difference, but sometimes I got better feeling with multiplayer as the cloud service had better connection to the game servers than my local provider. And I will prefer most multiplayer games with my local machine, but it impressed me very much (more than stadia an", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming in summer", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 799810864, "item_id": 49988179, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988179", "by": "Foxhuls", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "GeForce now in my experience has worked better than either of those options", "excerpt": "I\u2019m talking about cloud streaming though I used to do local streaming through steam and remote streaming through parsec. GeForce now in my experience has worked better than either of those options running on my own hardware regardless of the hardware being local occasionally.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud game streaming", "switched_from": "Parsec", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}]}, {"label": "Multiplayer works", "summary": "Some found online shooters playable or even better due to the service's connection to game servers.", "quotes": [{"id": 800012240, "item_id": 50000765, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000765", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it impressed me very much (more than stadia and Xbox cloud)", "excerpt": "I used GeForce now for the summer as I wanted to avoid a hot pc in my room. Any game I played with GeForce now I also played local, yes there is a minimal difference, but sometimes I got better feeling with multiplayer as the cloud service had better connection to the game servers than my local provider. And I will prefer most multiplayer games with my local machine, but it impressed me very much (more than stadia an", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming in summer", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 799844608, "item_id": 49990288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990288", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Nvidia GeForce now for some months and must admit that I can't feel a difference most of the time.", "excerpt": "I used Nvidia GeForce now for some months and must admit that I can't feel a difference most of the time. I tried call of duty warzone and even this was great multiplayer experience. (Game is a mess with GeForce now, can't remember shader cache and must recreate it every GeForce now session)", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 787564688, "item_id": 49222793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222793", "by": "stephen_cagle", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs.", "excerpt": "Ouch, yeah. I hate to say it, but I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs. I hate the lack of competition in the space (Onlive, Google's goofy ass gaming thing), but at this time cloud rendered gaming is at least 1 order of magnitude cheaper than building your own system. I play from a browser tab in Linux. Too high latency for Clair Obscur", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "cloud gaming from Linux browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out"}]}, {"label": "Mac and Linux", "summary": "Users play on a Mac and from a Linux browser tab.", "quotes": [{"id": 799837312, "item_id": 49989832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49989832", "by": "littlecranky67", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cloud gaming is nice, I use GeforceNow regularly to play on my mac.", "excerpt": "Cloud gaming is nice, I use GeforceNow regularly to play on my mac. However, there are several games that I couldn't complete/play due to the latency (around 60ms). 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I hate the lack of competition in the space (Onlive, Google's goofy ass gaming thing), but at this time cloud rendered gaming is at least 1 order of magnitude cheaper than building your own system. I play from a browser tab in Linux. Too high latency for Clair Obscur", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "cloud gaming from Linux browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Latency", "summary": "Around 60ms of latency made quick-time events, Souls-like games and competitive shooters frustrating or unplayable for some users.", "quotes": [{"id": 799837312, "item_id": 49989832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49989832", "by": "littlecranky67", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cloud gaming is nice, I use GeforceNow regularly to play on my mac.", "excerpt": "Cloud gaming is nice, I use GeforceNow regularly to play on my mac. However, there are several games that I couldn't complete/play due to the latency (around 60ms). Claire Obscures quicktime events were a pain (plus I used a PS5 controller which adds some latency), also Indiana Jones and the Great Circle had a bossfight mid-game with quicktime events that became so frustrating that I couldn't complete the game - half", "context": "Mac user", "use_case": "cloud gaming on Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 787564688, "item_id": 49222793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222793", "by": "stephen_cagle", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs.", "excerpt": "Ouch, yeah. I hate to say it, but I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs. I hate the lack of competition in the space (Onlive, Google's goofy ass gaming thing), but at this time cloud rendered gaming is at least 1 order of magnitude cheaper than building your own system. I play from a browser tab in Linux. Too high latency for Clair Obscur", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "cloud gaming from Linux browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out"}]}, {"label": "Session resets", "summary": "Shader caches and game logins are not kept between sessions, forcing rebuilds and repeated OTP prompts.", "quotes": [{"id": 799844608, "item_id": 49990288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990288", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Nvidia GeForce now for some months and must admit that I can't feel a difference most of the time.", "excerpt": "I used Nvidia GeForce now for some months and must admit that I can't feel a difference most of the time. I tried call of duty warzone and even this was great multiplayer experience. (Game is a mess with GeForce now, can't remember shader cache and must recreate it every GeForce now session)", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 801609456, "item_id": 50100591, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100591", "by": "littlecranky67", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use GeforceNow, and everytime I start a new session to play Battlefield 6", "excerpt": "Passkeys are the wet dream of the IP industry. They don't want you account secured from hackers, they want you to be unable to pass your password along to friends and family, so they use it to watch your netflix or play your licensed video games. I use GeforceNow, and everytime I start a new session to play Battlefield 6, EA makes me enter my password and sends me an OTP via email before I can play the game (due to G", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud game streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}]}, {"label": "Limited library", "summary": "Niche or indie games a user wanted to play were not offered.", "quotes": [{"id": 793270048, "item_id": 49579378, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579378", "by": "serbuvlad", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used GFN for a while and it was incredible.", "excerpt": "Cloud gaming is incredible tech, I used GFN for a while and it was incredible. HOWEVER, I will inevitably want to play weird stuff like \"milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk\", Pseudoregalia or Civ V Lekmod, which these cloud services do not offer. The other alternative is \"rent a VM\" systems like Shadow Gaming, but they're much more expensive, and have much worse latency and streaming tech. Also the questio", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "The \"$60 Gaming PC\" \u2013 AMD BC-250 (2025)"}]}, {"label": "Games sold separately", "summary": "You still have to own the games, since the subscription only covers streaming.", "quotes": [{"id": 799810576, "item_id": 49988161, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988161", "by": "Foxhuls", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find it to be indistinguishable from local hardware 95%+ of the time.", "excerpt": "As someone who used to upgrade their GPU every year to the newest top card I find it to be indistinguishable from local hardware 95%+ of the time. It\u2019s fairly mind blowing how well it works. Also just to clarify again I pay for the ultimate or whatever the highest tier of GeForce now is for like $20/month and use it primarily on a wired connection so that\u2019s where my experience comes from. 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They don't want you account secured from hackers, they want you to be unable to pass your password along to friends and family, so they use it to watch your netflix or play your licensed video games. I use GeforceNow, and everytime I start a new session to play Battlefield 6, EA makes me enter my password and sends me an OTP via email before I can play the game (due to G", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud game streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}, {"id": 800012240, "item_id": 50000765, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000765", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it impressed me very much (more than stadia and Xbox cloud)", "excerpt": "I used GeForce now for the summer as I wanted to avoid a hot pc in my room. Any game I played with GeForce now I also played local, yes there is a minimal difference, but sometimes I got better feeling with multiplayer as the cloud service had better connection to the game servers than my local provider. And I will prefer most multiplayer games with my local machine, but it impressed me very much (more than stadia an", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming in summer", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 799844608, "item_id": 49990288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990288", "by": "0x073", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Nvidia GeForce now for some months and must admit that I can't feel a difference most of the time.", "excerpt": "I used Nvidia GeForce now for some months and must admit that I can't feel a difference most of the time. I tried call of duty warzone and even this was great multiplayer experience. (Game is a mess with GeForce now, can't remember shader cache and must recreate it every GeForce now session)", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud gaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 799837312, "item_id": 49989832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49989832", "by": "littlecranky67", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cloud gaming is nice, I use GeforceNow regularly to play on my mac.", "excerpt": "Cloud gaming is nice, I use GeforceNow regularly to play on my mac. However, there are several games that I couldn't complete/play due to the latency (around 60ms). Claire Obscures quicktime events were a pain (plus I used a PS5 controller which adds some latency), also Indiana Jones and the Great Circle had a bossfight mid-game with quicktime events that became so frustrating that I couldn't complete the game - half", "context": "Mac user", "use_case": "cloud gaming on Mac", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 799810864, "item_id": 49988179, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988179", "by": "Foxhuls", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "GeForce now in my experience has worked better than either of those options", "excerpt": "I\u2019m talking about cloud streaming though I used to do local streaming through steam and remote streaming through parsec. GeForce now in my experience has worked better than either of those options running on my own hardware regardless of the hardware being local occasionally.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud game streaming", "switched_from": "Parsec", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 799810576, "item_id": 49988161, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988161", "by": "Foxhuls", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find it to be indistinguishable from local hardware 95%+ of the time.", "excerpt": "As someone who used to upgrade their GPU every year to the newest top card I find it to be indistinguishable from local hardware 95%+ of the time. It\u2019s fairly mind blowing how well it works. Also just to clarify again I pay for the ultimate or whatever the highest tier of GeForce now is for like $20/month and use it primarily on a wired connection so that\u2019s where my experience comes from. With their service you still", "context": "pays for the ultimate tier, wired connection", "use_case": "cloud game streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"}, {"id": 793270048, "item_id": 49579378, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579378", "by": "serbuvlad", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used GFN for a while and it was incredible.", "excerpt": "Cloud gaming is incredible tech, I used GFN for a while and it was incredible. HOWEVER, I will inevitably want to play weird stuff like \"milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk\", Pseudoregalia or Civ V Lekmod, which these cloud services do not offer. The other alternative is \"rent a VM\" systems like Shadow Gaming, but they're much more expensive, and have much worse latency and streaming tech. 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Too high latency for Clair Obscur", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "cloud gaming from Linux browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "All memory manufactured in 2027 has been sold out"}, {"id": 780833584, "item_id": 48802099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802099", "by": "munksbeer", "date": "2026-07-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love GeForce Now", "excerpt": "For what it's worth, I love GeForce Now. I no longer need to maintain a gaming PC, find somewhere to keep it, etc. I was so sceptical that streaming games could work but it does, and it is amazing.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming PC games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"}, {"id": 775490432, "item_id": 48468152, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468152", "by": "rpowers", "date": "2026-06-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For gaming, I use the geforce now service and a playstation controller. It's been quite fun!", "excerpt": "I use it every day, sometimes for hours. Once I embraced that fact that my family goes to bed before I do, I use it watch all of my \"nerdy\" shows at night. During the day it's been really great for having a large desktop that I can see throughout the house. For gaming, I use the geforce now service and a playstation controller. It's been quite fun!", "context": "", "use_case": "gaming on Vision Pro", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?"}]}