(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The last Call of Duty game Treyarch developed, World at War, had a maximum of 18 players online. Sony says it will be 24 this time around in Black Ops.

PlayStation 1-24 players announcement

Sony has updated their Black Ops page on PlayStation.com » with information that sounds quite exciting; hinting that the game can be played with 1-24 players. Since Xbox.com » has not updated their page with this information yet, we can not tell with complete certainty that it's confirmed or not. It sure does look like it, but only a few days back they made a mistake with announcing » new multiplayer material that didn't come through...

If it is true however, let's think about what this means for a second. The difference between 18 (World at War and Modern Warfare 2) and 24 players in an online multiplayer game mode can be huge. Even though 3 more team mates doesn't sound that many, it completely changes the way games will be played. First is the subject of lag (latency between you and the server, more info on wikipedia ), since the more players in a game will cause more lag and will make it less fun to play. Maybe Treyarch has found a way to keep the lag down with more players in the same game, which would be the ideal situation.

Besides the lag, Im excited to see how Treyarch will make this work map-wise. Smaller maps will be packed (usually resulting in a grenade-fest) and larger maps will look empty if not played in a 12 vs. 12 game.

Since it's not yet been confirmed by Activision nor Treyarch, let's await the first official multiplayer news, shall we? On that note, Treyarch's community Manager Josh Olin (JD_2020) is on press tour across America as we speak!

Yeah that would never happen. Especially when more people buy it for the Xbox. Whoever would make a console exclusive CoD would lose out on hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I no, and it would actually be the the millions.

That's gonna own my internet connection, common i can hardly get into GW.

thats what dice and bfbc2 do i don't c why not but they have dedicated servers