Nvidia Leak May Reveal Unannounced Games, Including God of War For PC (theverge.com) 35
An Nvidia GeForce Now server has leaked a confidential list of thousands of games, some of which have never been seen before, like the PlayStation exclusive God of War seemingly coming to Windows PC via Steam. Developer Ighor July has published the list to GitHub. The Verge reports: Here's a screenshot of what that looks like in the GeForce Now client, according to the developer. There are reasons to believe the list is legit. We know graphics giant Nvidia has access to games long before they're released -- and we know Sony in particularly has been banking on banking on PlayStation games on PC. It quietly revealed Uncharted 4 was coming to PC, after seeing a 250 percent return on its investment porting Horizon: Zero Dawn to the platform, and it was just Thursday that Sony announced it would be part of the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection -- a name that we'd never heard of before then, but already appears in Nvidia's list as well. So too do Demon's Souls and Final Fantasy XVI -- the games where Sony had to retroactively retract all mentions of PC to make them sound like PlayStation exclusives. PS5 exclusive Returnal appears as well, as does a Final Fantasy VII Remake for PC.
And there are codenames for games in here that seem original, ones that bring up zero search results. Is "Platinum" the internal name for Bethesda's Indiana Jones games? But there are also a lot of mentions that seem rather out of date or out of place, like a whole host of Facebook-exclusive Oculus Rift titles that would make little sense on Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service, or a mention of a "Titanfall 3" which clarifies that it's actually "GAMEapex_legends_-_titanfall," aka Apex Legends, the popular battle royale game. And some of them may simply be guesses, like Kingdom Hearts IV, "BioShock 2022," and so on. All of that means you should probably take any given name on the list with a grain of salt...
And there are codenames for games in here that seem original, ones that bring up zero search results. Is "Platinum" the internal name for Bethesda's Indiana Jones games? But there are also a lot of mentions that seem rather out of date or out of place, like a whole host of Facebook-exclusive Oculus Rift titles that would make little sense on Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service, or a mention of a "Titanfall 3" which clarifies that it's actually "GAMEapex_legends_-_titanfall," aka Apex Legends, the popular battle royale game. And some of them may simply be guesses, like Kingdom Hearts IV, "BioShock 2022," and so on. All of that means you should probably take any given name on the list with a grain of salt...
Re: Nooo... not my "exclusive" !!1! (Score:2)
My old boss used to say that he works on computers all day, and when he gets home he just wants to play, which I found hard to argue with. I did anyway, because it was funny, but he had a point.
But he also never saw Cyberpunk with ray tracing and DLSS.
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To be fair, consoles are cheaper. I think I paid more for may new GPU than I would have for a new console (not that either were easy to find).
I paid less for a RTX 3070 FE than I would for a new PS5 (granted, I'm not sure which would be harder to get at the moment) and the 3080 is 3 times as powerful as the entire PS5.
But the real savings as a PC gamer come from everything after the initial purchase price. Sony and MS sell the hardware as a loss leader, making it up in charging for extras like license fees and paid for multiplayer.
As a PC gamer, I buy at least 3-4 games a month. I've bought exactly 2 games over £30 this year (Cyberpun
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Can see how that is any easier on a console. You have to get up to swap discs around.
If you got it digitally, why not just get the PC.
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I think there is more utility in a new graphics card than a console. I can run Blender or Photoshop in addition to games, and years from now even if my PC is really old, there will be lots of stuff that runs. Of course the kind of people who buy a really high-end GPU are not going to sit on an old PC + old GPU for long, but the kind of people who would buy a PS5 might be OK with that.
My old boss used to say that he works on computers all day
I hear that. If I'm half a meter from a monitor/laptop for 10 hours a day. I would rather spend the rest of my time away from
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> Of course the kind of people who buy a really high-end GPU are not going to sit on an old PC + old GPU for long
Except for the ones who buy high-end in order to not have to buy again for longer. Like me. i7 5930K CPU is 6 years old, a pair of 1080 GPUs are 4 years old, and I'm not feeling even slightly under-served in performance or capabilities yet.
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There's sort of a sweet spot where you buy a powerful computer and can play the latest games at a high resolution (4K or 5K). But I think at 1080p or 1440p there are still a lot of games that the old reliable 10-series can handle, especially in SLI. I got fairly far on an overclocked GTX 1070 before I finally fell behind what was reasonable for the latest stuff on my 1440p. And really what pushed me to update was a free-to-play game I like that had a recent update that overworked my old card.
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Lol. Call me when your console eats games from yarrrs trruly, arr! :)
Consoles *literally* are criminal lock-in monopolism that's not yet made illegal. Their whole point is that you do not have actual choice while the thugs can claim you have (unrealistic) "choice", so they can massively overprice what they offer. Overpricing is why they even exist nowadays. They are literally just low-end PCs + lock-in.
Categorized list, for limited internal use? (Score:2)
I can hear the screams (Score:2)
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Especially since its literally they're only defense of why anyone would waste the money on buying the PS5 if they already have a halfway decent PC. And as much as Sony would hate to admit it, exclusives to their console will never make them (and developers) nearly as much money as they will if the game is available on multiple platforms - especially PC. Exclusive games to just one, singular console, in general, is both bad for their bottom line and consumers.
I have a pretty good gaming PC, so why on earth
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Why I have a PS4:
- I sit in front of a computer all day. The change is welcome. (Yes, I could get a gamepad and hook the PC up to the TV...) This might also be because my gaming PC is also my work PC. Just a different OS.
- Plug & play. More often than not, on the PC I have to deal with some random issue. Such as windows hiccuping, the game's DRM acting up, drivers requiring update because reasons. I don't get so much shit from the console. Also the console is less of a hassle to set up for 4K HDR output
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2. You computer is fucked and needs a nuke and pave, your console can have the same DRM problems, turn on auto updates for your drivers.
3. Hey, so does my PC
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If you are going to save $500 for a console, just double the wait and spend $1000.
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Upset? Playstation exclusives are all over Steam. They don't release new titles on Windows, but porting exclusives isn't anything new. It sucks that we have to wait 2-3 years for the new Horizon game, but at least we'll get it eventually.
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Given these games aren't released yet, if they're actually in the state they're in they could be completely ready for a simultaneous release.
Or it could just be a non-sequitor where sure, nVidia got the game prototype running on their cards, but there's nothing special at all. The game is developed on the PC after all, so they probably run a lot of it on the PC to avoid needing to tie up a dev kit to test.
After all, you do the bulk of development on the PC, including testing and bug fixing, and then you sta
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I never thought most designed-for-console games would play decently with and keyboard and mouse
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And Folklore.
Bethesdaâ(TM)s Indiana Jones games? (Score:3)
Like, Lucasarts style adventure or Bethesda style first person open world? Seeing the words, âoeIndiana Jones gamesâ, makes me salivate for the former and leaves me uncomfortable about the latter.
Global Thermonuclear War? (Score:1)
Prolly (Score:2)
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Did not know that.
But I am still going to say that GoW and any other Sony game will be in PlayStation Now. With maybe some tech from nVidia helping out.
This list looks very "my uncle from japan told me" (Score:1)
Due entries such as Chrono cross remaster and actraiser remake.
coming to Windows PC via Steam (Score:2)
Don't count on in.
Sincerely,
Tim Sweeney
I highly doubt it (Score:4, Interesting)
The implication that everyone is taking away is that the "exclusives" will be coming to PC. The implication I took away is that nVidia has a bunch of stuff that they're testing in the background, but not releasing publicly for expectation of lawsuits over it. The inclusion of Dolphin [dolphin-emu.org] seems to indicate that they're playing around with emulation capabilities and other things that would be unlikely to be officially released. Perhaps someone in the office is even supporting development of these emulators in their off time and decided it'd be a good idea to share it with other employees.
My $0.02.
Not news to game developers (Score:2)
Essentially all modern console games "have a PC version", it's just whether it gets released or not. Everyone develops on PCs for obvious reasons.
You misspelled "press release"! (Score:1)
It's not a leak. It's viral marketing!
So: Are you paid, or are you that dumb?