Twinfinite writes that, while a portable release such as a PlayStation Vita 2 is unlikely, Sony does not appear to have lost their portable gaming spirit entirely. With recent comments from John Kodera and his past at the company, Twinfinite says that something portable could be coming sooner than you think, but it'd have to come with the PlayStation 5.
PlayStation dominated cloud gaming users throughout 2021, beating Microsoft's xCloud streaming by over 10%, but Xbox swings back at PlayStation in 2022.
“In 2022, Microsoft took the lead with 60-70% of total MAUs”
From 20-30% up to 60-70%? That’s some crazy growth. Probably thanks to Fortnite.
What a clickbait headline. Why mention 2021, when the tides turned in 2022 for the obvious reason of one company making the Cloud service one of their biggest marketing pushes throughout the entire year while the other company was able to promote the games they had coming out?
And it's imprudent to suggest crazy growth when we only know proportions - did Xbox grow its proportion by attracting from the competitors' bases, did their marketing pay off and attract new users, or did cloud gamers on competitors just not play as much? The MAU figures don't point to shifts as significant as the Cloud proportions do, and Microsoft's lack of raw subscriber numbers that they happily boasted about in 2021 is telling too.
The PlayStation Brahs:
"Playstation Now will soon cease as exist as it combines with PlayStation Plus to be one super subscription, titles that won't carryover to the PlayStation Plus revamp will begin to leave the service in May."
Wait, what? I thought PS+ premium would carry over the games from PSNow?
Also this basically leaves MGS4 dead in the boneyard unless you play via RPCS3…
It's actually a lot of games that will leave at the same time.
Probably to leave some space for the PSP games that are gonna be added to the premium service.
As for MGS4, I would expect Konami to be behind the move.
Ah, yes. Bask in the "service" era. Where what you see today, is not what you'll see tomorrow, thanks to an overcomplicated system.
The "service", is simply, off the charts.
So when games leave PS Now, it's a huge issue but when games leave GamePass it's just fine? All subscription services have games / movies leave all the time.
Get PS Plus Premium at half off the price by subscribing to PS Now for 12 months! Sony has pulled the annual offer on PSN, but here are live links offering it for US and UK.
Umm ever consider it will probably just give you the basic ps plus for one year and you will need to upgrade to get the premium one?
They could give it to us for a dollar to get those numbers up before it launches.
Just kidding.
Don't let the link open in the app, it doesn't work. Open it in a web browser and it will work
The link in the article goes to a page that says "Not available for purchase." When I click on the link from the Twitter post, it works though. https://twitter.com/Wario64...
I got a feeling Sony may make the PS5 a hybrid and really show Nintendo how it's done.
I doubt Sony will move from its current place in the market. It's doing too well as is... no need to try something crazy that's outside their wheelhouse and could end in failure.
What im hearing is the dual shock 5 can come apart and double as vr controllers to get vr saturation on ps a much more viable option for consumers instead psvr where you have to spend 100s of more $$ just to get started. Psvr is supposed to be already "baked" into the ps5 and if theres any validity to these claims, sony may or may not make an add on or perrephial like the switch screen to be connected between them. Prob around ps4 level grapics. Theres def a market for ppl who would like the play gen 8 ps4 games on the go.
After Vita sold less than 20 million, one wonders if Sony would make another handheld especially after they dropped first party support prematurely on their last one
No hybrids please. That would be such a disappointment for me anyway. I would buy a Vita 2 on launch.