GeForce Now could be a game-changer for South African gamers desperate to play the latest popular titles without an expensive gaming PC or console. Rain’s launch of the Nvidia-powered platform is poised to become the country’s first to allow people to stream entire games from the Internet to a computer or mobile phone. Instead of relying on local processing power, a graphics card, and storage to run a game, cloud gaming services use a dedicated gaming server in the cloud.
While there has been scepticism over the financial and practical feasibility of such services, GeForce Now has been around for eight years — five in beta and another three in general release in other countries. Offering a cloud gaming service requires the rollout of server infrastructure close to the intended target market — because the performance depends heavily on low latency. If a server is located too far away from the player, they will experience delays between pressing a button and seeing it registered in the gam