By https://www.androidcentral.com/author/harish-jonnalagadda
Publication Date: 2026-04-16 02:00:00
It was after another round of interminable wait that I understood the biggest issue with cloud gaming. You see, I gave Xbox Cloud Gaming a try after it launched in India at the end of last year, and I was excited at the possibility of playing any game at any time — on any device.
So I grabbed my iPad Pro M4, connected a controller, and launched Xbox Cloud Gaming only to realize there was a 10-minute queue just to launch a game. It was frustrating to say the least, but I thought it was because I just got started with the service. I was wrong. If anything, that 10-minute wait was the shortest queuing time I’ve seen in the half-dozen times I tried out Xbox Cloud Gaming in the last two months, and more often than not, I had to wait 30 minutes or more just to start playing the game I wanted, defeating the point of instantaneous access.
Thankfully, NVIDIA’s GeForce Now shows much better promise. I beta-tested the service ahead of its launch in 2019, and used it intermittently over the last six years — mostly when I was traveling to a country where it was available. With NVIDIA finally bringing GeForce Now to India, I don’t have to deal with a VPN or wait until I travel to use the service, and that in itself is a big deal.
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