The Great Streaming Wars of 2020 are continuing to heat up as today Nvidia has announced that their GeForce Now streaming service has officially arrived on iOS in beta form via a new progressive web app. This was rumored to happen earlier this month according to a report from the BBC and as covered by our sister site Macrumors, and today’s announcement from Nvidia makes it official. To try it out for yourself, you simply visit play.geforcenow.com from your iOS device and follow the prompts to add that page as a bookmark to your device’s home screen. From then on you’ll access GeForce Now by clicking that bookmark icon and for all intents and purposes the entire experience behaves pretty much like a native app would. It’s really impressive.
Since I wasn’t currently a GeForce Now subscriber, I decided to use this opportunity to sign up on my iPhone and see what the process is like. The base service is free for anyone and lets you stream games that you already own though other 3rd party digital storefronts, like Steam or the Epic Games Store. The restrictions for being a free user are you don’t get any of Nvidia’s fancy visual effects like Ray Tracing or DLSS while you play, and you’re also limited to just one hour sessions at a time. For $4.99 per month or $25 for a 6 month chunk, you’ll get support for those fancy visual effects when you’re playing, no more one hour session limit, and you’ll also get priority...