Anyone who owns one would know about this as it is on the screen every time I turn it on

I can't believe this was posted. it's blatant when you get shield

I've owned two for several months & only found out today!

Been on this nearly a week on my 50mb fibre connection from BT,i also get constant packet loss warnings pixilated screens,and terrible lag using ethernet....never had a problem with my connection on anything else in my home,so not sure if its this service or not

I had the same issue on Grid, I could not enter text for the player name. How stupid!

Forgetting about gaming... How does this shield run kodi etc? As I've just ordered one for delivery tomorrow

make sure before you start to play the game that you go into settings and ramp up all the settings to max! I have a 200mb connection and thief looks stunning at full resolution and Max settings

​I did say I was a very casual gamer. The last PlayStation I owned was the first one.
I do have 200 mb Virgin broadband and not once has this service glitched for me. So as speeds get better this will come into its own.

Will try turning the settings down,its strange because i had a perfect service from Onlive,was expecting a better experience with this service

Just tried it on my (little used) Shield Portable. Despite no evidence of the device ever existing on their website, they still seem to support it with updates, which is nice.

The local game streaming (from my gaming PC) works very well; but I've found little reason to use it. Something like NOW would potentially allow me to do away with the need for a gaming PC - but that's in the distant future - their selection isn't good enough at this point.

The service does perform well on our rural 30MB fibre connection (over Wifi). There are noticeable compression artefacts; but the general impression of quality on a screen that small is quite good. Lag is evident but not problematic. It's rather impressive actually when you think about how the service works.

However it appears to be impossible to enter text on this device, so in 'Grid' when I was asked to enter a player name, I couldn't do so. I suspect this would cause bigger issues in certain titles.

The biggest problem on the Shield Portable appears to be very slow navigation in the Geforce NOW interface. It takes AGES to load a list of games to view, while other parts of the interface are lightning fast.

I also just tried to cancel the trial/subscription from the 'Settings > GEFORCE NOW > Billing' menu, but it keeps coming up with a store error. I suspect it is failing because I only signed up within the last hour. I'll try again later today/tomorrow.

I can't believe this was posted. it's blatant when you get shield

Been looking at getting a shield just missed a fews deals on them so will hang around until next time, but will try this out!

I took the trial some time ago. I didn't spend as much time with it as I would have liked but I have to say from my limited use the results were very mixed even on a fast 50mb fibre connection (Virgin Media) with an ethernet cable direct to the Shield. I kept getting poor signal icon warnings on screen (like the bars on a phone) and games seemed to take a while to start and had noticeable compression artifacts.

The same connection worked perfectly with Playstation Now (I was on the Beta).

There could have been an issue with my set up and despite the issues I'd still highly recommend the Shield TV itself, but I definitely wouldn't subscribe to Geforce now despite the decent games library.

I took the plunge with this a while ago. I'm a very casual gamer so this more than suits my needs.
I can see this being the future of gaming. It works very well. Will more likely be Sony or Microsoft that will give it legs though.

Would be nice to actually be able to buy a Shield to take advantage of this deal !!!!

As rare as rocking horse shi*!!

Nice!!. :-)

is this similar to what onlive was a few years back?

does the voice Firestick controller work. I couldn't live without that option.

Not bad,but shame as I got rid of my Shield 2 months ago and went back to Fire TV.
Just couldnt cope with that god awful buggy remote controler.and I wanted it just for streaming.

have this on my nvidia shield portable. haven't played the ps4 since

Hot

ah, I was just going to ask: can you cancel immediately and still get the 3 months, or does your subscription end as soon as you cancel. Thanks

Needs a decent connection but when it works it works good

Couldn't cancel sub on first day but day after did it from GeForce now settings menu . Stills runs for the 3 months . Payment system was strange as had to use spaces from the card . Took a few tries

Anyone who owns one would know about this as it is on the screen every time I turn it on

I subscribed when I bought my shield in January and have just cancelled it (which is a simple process).

The reason was that the game selection is very poor. Tomb Raider is still one of the most popular "new" games. They stopped releasing free to members games instead opting for charging around £10-20 for that weeks release.

There's no denying it's an ambitious project with relatively successful results (the streams run at 1080p at 60fps) which rarely suffer but with no multiplayer and no licences for the most popular games it wasn't for me.

I ended up buying a PS4 to resolve this but with that said the shield is a brilliant set top box, just very limited for gaming unless you use the gamestream option.

Problem is, they don't have a very good selection of games. That's why, since I bought the thing over a year ago, I still haven't activated my trial.

Do you have to give them payment details for this and it is easy to cancel?

superb deal!

Shouldn't this be in freebies?

I have already used mine 3 months. Is it possible to make another account with different email?