[HN Gopher] Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering
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Nvidia launches first SaaS Offering
Author : kjkisielewicz
Score : 29 points
Date : 2022-09-22 17:25 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| cercatrova wrote:
| Eventually, every company will tend towards services. Monthly
| income flows are more enticing than one-time ones.
| robotnikman wrote:
| And the internet is what makes such a thing possible...
| cercatrova wrote:
| Services doesn't necessarily mean internet based. If I run a
| local coffee shop, I can sell one bag of coffee or a
| subscription to monthly coffee, just pay upfront and come in
| to the store to pick it up.
| sottol wrote:
| And when that happens (and if buyers ever get fed up), the
| pendulum will swing back as it will be a competitive advantage
| to offer one-time pricing and someone will exploit that edge.
| But that supposes buyers will care enough.
| ramesh31 wrote:
| Tangentially related, but GeForce Now is absolutely incredible.
| It seems like they've finally cracked game streaming. If you have
| a solid wired connection, it is practically unnoticeable for
| single player games at this point. They also made the (genius)
| decision to integrate it with multiple existing stores like Steam
| and GOG rather than building their own. I don't know if I'll ever
| buy a gaming PC again.
| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| I am moving in two weeks to a place that has gigabit fiber.
| Maybe I should give this a shot!
| Kukumber wrote:
| Shadow is much better (not as cheap as GeforceNow), you
| basically get a PC with a dedicated GPU, you can do what ever
| you want with it
|
| https://shadow.tech/
| [deleted]
| DIVx0 wrote:
| I've been a GeForce Now subscriber since the start. It's a good
| service that is prevented by publishers from being great.
|
| Two major pain points for me:
|
| 1) I can't play my whole library. During the beta I was able to
| play pretty much my whole steam library but that changed after
| GFN went live. I accept that some titles may have technical
| limitations but thats far from universal. Like, why can't I
| play Red Dead Redemption II on GFN but I can on Stadia? Pure
| publisher bullshit, that's why
|
| 2) I wish Nvidia made it possible to apply mods to games. Steam
| workshop mods work if supported but the majority of games do
| not support that. I don't often mod but when I do its usually
| to correct some 'quality of life' issue.
|
| I ended up buying a Steamdeck to game on instead of GFN.. I
| hope the arbitrary restrictions holding it back disappear
| someday
| lavezzi wrote:
| They still have an issue with game compatibility, and I don't
| think the pricing model is competitive enough
| account-5 wrote:
| If everyone thought this they'd put themselves out of the
| consumer hardware business.
| mattnewton wrote:
| I think they would rather be the group to put themselves out
| of that business than someone else, like amd + amazon for
| Luna or amd + google for stadia
| TaylorAlexander wrote:
| Well, they may make it more accessible to get in to gaming,
| and then having increased the number of gamers they may find
| more customers looking for a local experience. Maybe college
| students gaming on the fiber network at school coming home to
| a poor internet connection, or nerds who start gaming on a
| laptop but decide to build out a whole gaming rig with the
| best performance. I think this kind of thing has some
| complexity to it.
| freediver wrote:
| Seeing more and more submissions recently break this guideline:
|
| > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is
| misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
|
| Time for guideline change or stricter enforcement?
| [deleted]
| madeofpalk wrote:
| > NVIDIA Launches Omniverse Cloud Services for Building and
| Operating Industrial Metaverse Applications
|
| Is this really a better title? OPs contains just as much
| information.
| freediver wrote:
| It's not about which title is better (I agree OP's better)
| but the guideline saying do not editorialize the title.
|
| So either a bad/irrelevant guideline or not properly
| enforced.
| bhhaskin wrote:
| Or are guidelines instead of stead fast rules.
| freediver wrote:
| Good point. I (think I) remember seeing guidelines being
| used to enforce a mod action though, so then they would
| stop being guideliness and become rules.
| bhhaskin wrote:
| I don't think things are so black and white. The mods can
| pretty much do whatever they want at the end of the day.
| They also give a lot of leeway.
| freediver wrote:
| I guess my engineering mind is wanting things to be more
| black and white.
| ziddoap wrote:
| " _NVIDIA Launches Omniverse Cloud Services for Building and
| Operating Industrial Metaverse Applications_ "
|
| Seems a bit long for the title, and " _Company's First SaaS
| Offering_ " is the first four words of the subtitle. Seems
| pretty reasonable?
| xen2xen1 wrote:
| The last time I saw it enforced, it was for a MUCH more
| material change of the title. Something like, "New Product
| Announced!" to "Change you password now!", hiding it was
| basically an ad, etc. This doesn't mention the Metaverse part
| (which is material), but it's also more of a summarization and
| not an outright deception.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| It's not the first, Geforce Now has been around for a while.
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