@rainslacker
***"MAG supported 256 players on PS3"***
Maybe we should email the GRID devs and tell them to swap out the Stadia Blades for PS3's.
@gamingunited
***"Why is the Call of Duty Survival mode exclusive to PlayStation?"***
Because Sony paid for it.
I KNOW that some games support 40 players already, PUBG is doing 100 players, whilst Battlefield 4 supported 64 players almost seven years ago on current gen platforms.
The point is, the GRID dev is saying that the Stadia architecture can support more players than other platforms, you're not ar...
@Coconuts
The network demand shouldn't be any greater than streaming a 1080p or 4K YouTube video, with the exception of a tiny overhead for controller input traffic.
Fair play to you though, at least you understand the concept of what I'm talking about.
There are other benefits - for example due to all the blades being located in data centres -client side cheating will become a thing of the past, bad connections will no longer ...
@gamingunited
***"If your internet can stream a game it can handle network data from 40 people"***
I've told you how it works.
If it were possible for devs to implement the same level of GRID multiplayer on other platforms, then please tell me why they haven't - it seems to me this would be a major selling point for their game, no?
If you want to bury your head in the sand, deny facts and continue ba...
@ccgr
***"I bet my computer could handle it"***
It's nothing to do with the power of your computer, OR the power of Stadia.
The reason it's possible for Stadia to support more players in online modes Vs other platforms is because all instances of the Stadia server blades are located in the same data centres.
Essentially it's like one huge LAN party.
@Ultra
***"Dude, no need to get your panties in a bunch. We know you are the resident Google guy around here. I've simply stated a fact. Your wall of text proves nothing as we speak"***
Ad hominem;
Short for argumentum ad hominem, typically refers to a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person mak...
@UltraNova
***"Stadia is competing against its maker, Google, who is known for their luck of patience with any products that dont immediately fly off to success"***
Narrow minded.
Google has invested millions in Stadia so far, building server farms using bespoke blade servers and integrating some pretty impressive anti latency measures.
Google own YouTube, they know how many gaming videos are being watched a...
@Ciporta1980
***"Yeah sorry phill Spencer you were wrong yet again"***
What does Phil Spencer have to do with GaaS vs Single Player games?
Are you stating that service based games only appear on the Xbox platform, because if you are then Ghost Recon break-point, Anthem, Division 2, Destiny and Black Desert online would like to have a word?
Why does every comment's thread have to turn into a platform war?...
@Kernel
***"even digital foundry pointed out how poor pq is and how bad latency is"***
Err, no they didnt.
Digital Foundry said that latency was equal to current Gen consoles running locally at 30FPS.
It's all here.
https://youtu.be/VG06H7IQ9A...
@LOGIC
***"Why should I pay a monthly $10 sub"***
Try it next year when the standard version launches. It's free so you're not at a loss.
Demos and some free trials of games will certainly be available because Google will want people to at least give it a go.
There's no downloads so even if you just use Stadia to trial a game that you eventually buy on another platform, you have nothing to lose....
@Pwn
In my opinion the absolute best part of Death Stranding is the asynchronous multiplayer aspect of the game. I think it's a part of the game that early reviews did not play enough attention to, most likely due to the fact that the player base for reviews prior to the games release was probably much smaller than the numbers playing since Friday.
I literally spent six hours yesterday foregoing the story and simply gathering resources and building ro...
@Foxtrot
***"No Mans Sky and Sea of Thieves are worse then this game though, they were bad not just because they were boring but because they were and still are lacking. Death Stranding is pretty meaty on content"***
Whilst I agree that Death Stranding is a fantastic game and I have no issues with either the content or game-play (I've finished the game and currently have around 50 hours logged), You are way off the mark with your comments ab...
@Automatic
***"How do you guys figure it has 50%"***
I think the 50% they are referring to is PS NOW market share taken from the Superdata numbers (which have been shown to be inaccurate), not the percentage install base that subscribe to the service, which you are right in saying is around 1%.
@Nitro
I didn't see much of the pre release footage so I cannot really comment on whether or not there's been a visual downgrade and TBH, I don't really care if there has been. Many of the people posting comparisons had not played the game when I made my original post on this thread, I started playing at midnight UK time the instant the game unlocked.
I've now played a lot more of the game and I am in complete agreement - Death Standing is...
@rainslacker
***"If there is damage control, one has to ask why there is damage"***
As stated in my original post, the "perceived" damage is an outlier review by Tristan Ogilvie for IGN US.
For some reason, most likely personal insecurity, users are now posting every regional variation of IGN's Death Stranding review in an attempt to show that Tristan's opinion should be discounted as it the outlier score.
...
@sinspirit
***"Look at their Gears of War 5 "analysis" which was exposed as not an analysis"***
If you're talking about YouTube gangsta wannabe KingThrash gaming "exposing" Digital Foundry by sending a few tweets / comments on Reddit and his not at all biased response video in which he shouts a lot but basically says nothing then I'd stop right there. The guy is an idiot, his video and posts are complete nonsense.
<...
@CoinOrc
***"Are you saying the real estate industry and the census are "moving goalpost"**"
No. I never once mentioned the real estate industry or the census, they have nothing to do with this discussion.
***"Not surprising since you refer to the median as a "different average"***
From Dictionary.com
"The median is another form of an average. It usually repre...
I've played about an hour of the game so far, the visuals are very impressive.
@Migit
Disco Elysium is my GOTY, that game is phenomenal.
@Knushwood
***"how does that mean cheating will be eliminated just because the 'blades are in a data center'?"***
Stadia users do not have access to local "client" side hardware so are unable to install hacks.
@rain
***"That wasn't my point. My point was that such things are possible on the current gen consoles, because they were available on last gen consoles"***
...