Geforce Now is great. It’s a game streaming service that actually works. Amazing. Game Pass is great. It’s a game subscription service that offers an awful lot of choice, including many day one-release games, and a lot of those games are playable on Nvidia’s streaming platform. What could make this union better, you ask? It’s all about how you log in.
While the two services combine brilliantly to let you play Game Pass games almost anywhere you have a good internet connection, there has been a problem: you have to log into your Microsoft account to play the games. “Big deal,” I am sure many of you are huffing to yourselves. “This guy doesn’t even know he’s born,” etc. Well, I do (sadly it was over 40 years ago now), and also, playing Game Pass games on a device that doesn’t have a keyboard attached is annoying. Ask anyone who tries to enter an email address and password using their TV’s remote control.
Geforce Now users who mainly used the games in their Steam libraries didn’t have this issue as the service lets you automatically sign in. Set it up once in the Geforce Now settings and you have a pretty seamless experience, even on a TV. Now this functionality is coming to Xbox accounts.