NVIDIA’s New 100-Hour Limit Subscription Plan Makes it a Deadlier Threat to Gaming Industry Than Sony’s Predatory Tactics

In the world of cloud gaming, Nvidia GeForce Now has become a household name. Despite the congestion of popular cloud gaming platforms like Xbox Cloud Gaming, PlayStation Plus Premium, and Amazon Luna, GeForce Now has made a special place in everyone’s hearts for its easy accessibility and huge gaming library.

However, a huge decision has been taken by this American GPU manufacturing company. While there are improvements in GeForce Now and the middle plan that most gamers will use, NVIDIA’s decision to restrict playing time has sparked a great deal of controversy.

Nvidia Caps Its New Monthly Pan into a 100-Hour Time Period Restriction

With no price increase, NVIDIA has rebranded its GeForce Now Priority subscription to the Performance plan, which now supports ultra-wide displays and up to 1440p resolution. However, beginning in 2025, both Performance and Ultimate plans will be subject to a new streaming cap of 100 hours per month.

To reflect that it now supports up to 1440p resolution, Team Green renamed the Priority subscription—which is the entry-level option between the free tier and the premium Ultimate subscription—the Performance plan. These members used to stream in 1080p, but now they can also stream in ultra-wide.

Additionally, users of the new Performance membership will be able to store in-game graphics settings in the cloud, which will apply those settings permanently and eliminate the need to constantly adjust them.

Well, everything is fine and there isn’t a price increase either, but now we get to the restrictions on the number of playing sessions. If you want to play more games, you will need to pay more (or keep playing, but on the ‘Free’ plan) because NVIDIA is imposing a monthly streaming time limit of 100 hours.

Nvidia’s New Decision Is a Graver Threat Than Sony

Right now Sony has taken a weird approach to cashing out every game possible in its library by bringing remastered/director’s cut versions with modest tweaks. This is pretty bad news for the gaming fraternity. However, this decision to cap playing time by Nvidia is worse. 

So, that really hurts the Ultimate plan. The good news is that similar to mobile data allowances in certain situations, up to 15 hours of unused time will carry over to the next month. You will thus receive 115 hours of streaming for the following month if you play for 85 hours in a single month.

The implementation of the time limit appears to be linked to the switch to 1440p on the main plan for GeForce Now, which will undoubtedly result in a significant increase in bandwidth usage when streaming for gamers.

Gamers’ general response has been, let’s say, negative, and they have disputed Team Green’s assertion that 100 hours is a generous allotment for the majority. On the surface, that sounds fine, but if you accumulate some significant sessions on the weekends, it’s likely to go more quickly than you anticipate. That works out to three hours a day, or slightly more.