The GFN.ru cloud gaming platform (which uses Nvidia technology) will shut down on October 1. The company will stop signing up new customers and selling subscriptions from one month to one year from September 1.
The decision is due to the fact that the company, in the current circumstances, cannot offer the quality of service that has been set, reports Kommersant.
The servers running the gaming platform have increased in price since they were bought and are now planned to be sold, according to the report.
The interlocutor of the publication associated the closure of GFN.ru with the inability to switch to the new software (software) necessary for streaming games using GeForce NOW technology.
Experts doubt that used equipment, adapted to run Nvidia’s software, which is currently not available in Russia, will be popular on the market.
- GFN.ru was launched in 2019: 51% of its legal entity (Region Estate LLC) is owned by SFI, 49% by the director of services Pavel Troitsky. The net loss of the company for 2022 amounted to 411.6 million rubles, the proceeds from the sale – 248.3 million rubles.
- In November 2022, Nvidia announced that it would suspend direct sales to Russia and cease all business operations in the country. Previously, the US authorities added a license requirement for Nvidia. The new rules prohibit the company from exporting to China and Russia two types of chips that could be redirected to “military end use” or “military end user.”
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