Nvidia is bringing Fortnite back to iOS with new cloud gaming web app
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Nvidia is joining its fellow cloud gaming providers in choosing to bypass
Apple's App Store and launching a mobile web app version of its GeForce Now
service. Nvidia's version is available today in beta form, meaning any of the
service's more than 5 million registered users can fire up GeForce Now in
mobile Safari on an iPhone or iPad and get playing.
Nvidia says it also plans to broaden support for its desktop Chrome-based
version of GeForce Now, which currently only works on Chromebooks, to more
platforms starting in the first quarter of next year, including Android,
Linux, and Mac. GeForce Now is currently primarily distributed via Mac and PC
apps, as well as through dedicated apps on Android and its Nvidia Shield
streaming box.
One of the more obvious upsides here is that Epic Games' Fortnite will once
again be playable on Apple devices, albeit through a somewhat cumbersome
workaround and only after Epic and Nvidia work out some kinks. Fortnite』s PC
version is available through GeForce Now, thanks to Nvidia and Epic's
partnership around cloud gaming that allows Epic Game Store titles to be
streamed through Nvidia's platform. That said, the game isn't ready for the
iOS version of GeForce Now quite yet, as Epic and Nvidia are working together
to bring improved touch controls to the game.
「Alongside the amazing team at Epic Games, we're working to enable a
touch-friendly version of Fortnite, which will delay availability of the
game. While the GeForce Now library is best experienced on mobile with a
gamepad, touch is how over 100 million Fortnite gamers have built, battled
and danced their way to Victory Royale,」 Nvidia GeForce Now chief Phil
Eisler writes in the company's blog post. 「We're looking forward to
delivering a cloud-streaming Fortnite mobile experience powered by GeForce
NOW. Members can look for the game on iOS Safari soon.」
So any mobile Fortnite players who have been unable to access the game will
soon be able to claim it on Epic's PC storefront, sign in with their account,
and find the game on the iOS version of GeForce Now. And any players who
already play Fortnite across mobile, console, and PC have likely already
linked their account and should have no trouble syncing their data across
platforms. News of Fortnite』s return to iOS via GeForce Now was first
reported earlier this month by the BBC, ahead of Nvidia's official
announcement.
Still, it's not an ideal workaround, and the hurdles players have to jump
through to play a game that just a few months ago ran natively on iOS devices
is indicative of the larger fissures forming between Apple and the video game
industry. Apple in August became the center of two separate but related
controversies. The first kicked off when it banned Fortnite from the App
Store (Google did the same by removing Fortnite from its Play Store) over the
inclusion of Epic's own in-app payment methods designed to bypass Apple's
standard 30 percent cut. Epic then sued both Apple and Google for
anti-competitive practices.
Shortly after that, Apple clarified its position on cloud gaming services,
explaining that the clients operated by Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others
were not allowed on iOS because of App Store policies barring platforms that
stream games. Apple softened its stance slightly by creating an exemption
that would allow a cloud gaming service so long as the games it streamed were
submitted individually for App Store review and subject to the same policies
and 30 percent commission that other apps are.
Apple also suggested cloud gaming providers use the mobile web instead if
they thought the terms were unfavorable. Microsoft snubbed the olive branch
as a 「bad experience for consumers,」 while Facebook began publicly
criticizing Apple for the restrictions it imposed on its own cloud gaming
service. Neither Google nor Nvidia publicly spoke out about Apple's position
on cloud gaming.
Now, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia have since taken Apple's advice and
decided to go the mobile web route instead of attempt to work within the
confines of the App Store. Microsoft plans to launch an iOS version of xCloud
sometime next year, while Google announced today that it would be testing an
iOS version of its Stadia platform in the coming weeks. Yet Nvidia is beating
both to the punch by launching a WebRTC-based version of GeForce Now on
mobile Safari today in beta.
Nvidia says there will be some notable restrictions involved. You will be
able to use controllers such as the Xbox One gamepad and Sony's DualShock 4
as well as supported mobile-first controllers like the Razer Kishi. In fact,
Nvidia says a majority of GeForce Now's more than 750 games that work well
with gamepads and will run just as well on mobile.
But Nvidia hasn't tested the new PlayStation 5 console's DualSense controller
and cannot confidently say it will work. Touch controls will also work,
though they will not be natively supported in certain games because the
machines on which the platform runs stream the PC version of a game and not a
made-for-mobile app. (Hence the delay on making Fortnite available.) Mice and
keyboards will not work at all, Nvidia says, due to issues specifically with
mouse support using the mobile web client as it's currently designed.
Nvidia is also announcing some nice new additions to the platform, including
InnerSloth's huge multiplayer hit Among Us and support for GOG.com's PC
storefront in time for parent company CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 launch on
December 10th. And Nvidia says it's also increased the number of facilities
around the globe it uses to deliver GeForce Now to 22 data centers in 70
countries.
Update November 19th, 12PM ET: Included mention of Google's plans to test an
iOS version of Stadia in the coming weeks.
Correction: An earlier version of this story said Fortnite would be available
on iOS through GeForce Now starting today. That is incorrect; Epic and Nvidia
are working to improve touch controls for the game before releasing it
officially on the platform. We regret the error.
簡單來說，IOS可以透過GEFORCE NOW玩遊戲了..
剛剛試了奧德賽，一樣非常順暢，不知道阿婆會不會把他擋掉
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