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Fortnite Coming Back to iOS Soon Thanks to Nvidia's GeForce NOW Service
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boomer logic here.
I can't imagine that this will work as well in the browser. What kind of latency would you have streaming games?
The game doesn't run on Apple's hardware, you are just viewing and interacting a videostream via browser.
i always assumed that thing kind of remote gaming was mainly for single player games.
Wonderful and other app developers should follow. Leave my secure App Store alone. I believe if Epic can game on the web, so can many others and this is a perfect model for anyone who wants to take apple's app store to court. Do your own advertising for gamers and collect your money on your own as well. Amazing, Epic's people actually do have some business minds working there.
What a twisted operational model that's badly & poorly impacted Fortnite employees and gamers from such childish Fortnite leadership.
Also how pathetic of Nvidia to get into this mess on their first venture using this tech.
Also how pathetic of Nvidia to get into this mess on their first venture using this tech.
Except Fortnite is already on nVidia Now. I've been playing it for months now, on my Mac M1. The only thing changing is them adding it to the mobile browser version, with touch controls.
If only you could connect a PS4 controller.......
Really? You really think Apple is going to start literally blocking websites in Safari? ?
I don't know. I've only seen two kinds of people that play Fortnite:
1. Child
2. Man child
I've never seen other demographics of Fortnite players. This is also anecdotal evidence, but DANG IT, it's always one of those two. It's never any other demographic.
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Can you imagine how laggy and slow it’s going to be on Safari? 😫😫
Eh, I'd say more "ignorance" than "anecdotal evidence". You're choosing to lash out at something you apparently don't like, and in this process insulting other people. Weird, but okay.
Just need to take one look at average age of players of the game to see it's mostly younger kids. Most are 18 and under, while almost all are under 25. People under 25 don't have a ton of disposable income. That money they're spending is mom and dad's.
@polaris20 was using the phrase correctly actually -- based on your own comment that stated "I've only seen two kinds of people that play Fortnite." Now you know.Then you need to look up what anecdotal evidence means.
this makes absolutely no sense at all.
blocking sides by hardcoding them? dns? redirect? i can think of a dozen ways to bypass all of those. not to mention that isn't gonna end well for apple. i also have no idea what you mean by legal enforcement either.
They are going down like clown...
Fortnite users
| Year | Users |
| 2017 | 20 million |
| 2018 | 125 million |
| 2019 | 250 million |
| 2020 | 300 million |
| 2021 | 350 million |
https://www.ggrecon.com/guides/fortnite-player-count-how-many-people-play/They are going down like clown...
Fortnite users
**source epic games.
Year Users 2017 20 million 2018 125 million 2019 250 million 2020 300 million 2021 350 million
Total number of accumulated players is misleading. Peak August 2018 online playing 78 million, during 2021, it was 6 to 12 million.
its large, but using the great google, sports is 620b worldwide and tv is 230b and video games are 138b. I think movies are smaller than video games, though.And it's been true for a while:
Videogames now outperform Hollywood movies
Titles such as Halo: ODST are drawing people away from cinemas, television and DVDswww.theguardian.com
That's odd, we must have read a completely different comment - I read one reacting to the news of a touch controlled version of Fortnite running in a web browser through a 3rd party streaming service, and suggesting that only kids would be interested. You seem to have read an indictment of the entire multi-billion dollar gaming industry. Was part of the message in invisible ink or something? But enjoy being outraged, I guess.
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Wonder how much NVIDIA is charging Epic for this. Probably in the neighborhood of 30%.
Then you need to additionally stop trying to ASSume someone's emotional intent. Also, learn what anecdotal evidence means. This is the last reply I will give on this subject as we are veering into a derail which will also include the inevitable personal attacks against me.
They are going down like clown...
Fortnite users
**source epic games.
Year Users 2017 20 million 2018 125 million 2019 250 million 2020 300 million 2021 350 million
My question is how many of those 350 million are "whales" and how many are not. The whales are what keeps free to play going. If it's even just 1% of that 2021 figure, that means we have around 3.5 million Fortnite whales, which is more than what several pay to play games have.