Cloud gaming has finally graduated from gimmick status: in 2025, Nvidia’s GeForce NOW delivers shockingly smooth performance on AAA titles like Indiana Jones, Borderlands 4 and Apex Legends. Linus walks us through cloud vs. a high-end local rig (Ryzen 7 9800X3D, DDR5-64 GB, RTX 5080 FE) and finds that latency, visual fidelity and load times have all but closed the gap.
While it’s awesome that you can ditch bulky hardware and still hit max settings, this newfound polish comes with trade-offs—dependence on stellar internet, potential privacy concerns and the end of “I own my rig” bragging rights. Whether that’s progress or a power play by big tech is up for debate.
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