Yep, there's great games on consoles no doubt about that. Maybe I should have said "game performance" instead of "game experience" (one in the same, to me". But bottom of the barrel when it comes to performance. Op talks about running Witcher 3 at twice the framerate as a console without even having a physical pc. I think that's pretty impressive.
Lol seriously? This post just seems like a rant for W3 instead of the actual subject of this topic
Once again, the network latency is roughly 1ms in my case (maybe 2ms RTT). There's no 160ms of input lag. After 15 hours with the game this way and some of the more challenging early game fights (botchling), I can assure you it's no detriment in this game's case. Controls feel perfectly responsive and in line with what I expect out of W3 from muscle memory of past playthroughs. But believe whatever you want.
This kind of resolution elitism is really silly IMO, the game looks fantastic at 1080p60 Ultra on the 40" TV I happen to be playing on at ~6ft away. I've played plenty of games at 4K and Witcher 3 in particular at 1440p and yah it's nice, but this isn't "stopped reading" material.
Right? Essentially the Shield version is an Android app, and I believe modern phones have SoCs as powerful or maybe more powerful than the Tegra X1, but I think nVidia locks the nVidia Games app it runs on to their own hardware.
Eh, for some games maybe.
I get better latency with steam link. Also, it can do those resolutions too.
And that's entirely subjective. I've plyed the entire base game at 1440p on an XB271HU and miss nothing from that experience, personally. To each their own.
I had to temporarily go down to 1080p and I couldn't hack it. This is especially true at their default settings after a few patches, where they futzed with the mipmap biases, so that they had much more detail at distance (too much for 1080p)
Why would you need to drag out a steam link if you have a Shield? You could just install the steam link app, it is far more capable than the device.
It didn't back when I got one, didn't know that.
Sorry, was referring to the Steam Link app which supports 4K on most modern phones/ android TVs /tvboxes/ raspberry pi.
I admit I am weird, I just love a clean native res IQ. Will take 4K/30 for a game like TW3 all day. It's not a gameplay game.
Might be the harddrive speed.
I doubt it's even native 1080p quality via streaming, probably much lower. Same goes for the framerate.
I have gigabit connection, 950/50, and I still find it hard to believe that the game is more responsive than on console.
That's my connection, to a server 50 miles away. When you live close to a data center with a ping below 5 and a downstream like this, or more, you can receive data so fast that a slow HDD becomes...
