“I fully understand the nostalgia for real ownership of physical-media games… But do you know what I like more than collecting? Playing! Anywhere. Anything. Anytime.”
DHH nails it again. The nostalgia for physical media is real—I grew up on cassettes and floppy disks too. But let’s be honest: collecting isn’t playing.
We went through the same thing with music and movies. Vinyl had a nice comeback, but it’s a rounding error compared to Spotify. Same with 4K Blu-rays. Most people just stream. It’s cheaper. It’s faster. It’s better.
So why not games? Because it just wasn’t good enough. Netflix tried casual gaming and quietly disappeared. Google Stadia was years ahead of reality—eerie how often that happens for big G.
But NVIDIA kept working. GeForce NOW? Now it’s actually kinda amazing.
“You can legitimately play Fortnite in 2880x1800 at 120 fps through a remote 4080, and it looks incredible. Yes, there’s a little input lag, but it’s shockingly, surprisingly playable.”
The hardest possible genre—competitive shooters—and it works. Racing games and story-mode games? Barely tell the difference.
At $20/month for 4080-tier access, that’s a deal. You’d spend $2,000+ on a 4080 rig. Payback in 100 months. By then you’d want a 6080 anyway.
And the local-server version via Apollo + Moonlight? Mind-blowing. Fortnite at 120 fps ultra settings, zero perceivable lag, on Linux.
No dual boot needed. No honking PC on the desk. The Asus G14 pulls 18 watts and stays cool.
Whether NVIDIA’s cloud setup or repurposing a local gaming PC, this is the future of PC gaming on modest hardware.