Nvidia is in a privileged position. Whether the team there believes it or not, every innovation that comes out of its research and development department will show up sooner or later in hundreds of mainstream titles and technologies. Don't believe me? Look at the GPU. Twenty years ago the concept of a discrete graphics processing unit wasn't something that consumers had much interest in. But, come 1999, that story changed when Nvidia launched its 256 card. In the time since its launch, Nvidia has produced dozens of cards, each improving on that early model. The point here is that the original wasn't perfect, but it didn't matter. It was innovative and, in the end, that's what made it ubiquitous with gamers.When trying out Grid, Nvidia's game-streaming service that's 10-years in the making, this is exactly how I feel: It may not be perfect but, along with its console counterpart PlayStation Now, it's the beginning of something big in a way that services like OnLive never were.