Today at CES, Sony finally announced why they spent $380 million on Gaikai. Called ‘PlayStation Now’, it’s an ambitious plan to bring PS3 games to PS3s, PS4s, PS Vitas and even TVs by cloud streaming them. What will this mean for the future of PlayStation? Daily Reaction’s Sebastian Moss and Dan Oravasaari discuss. - PSLS
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...
Now, just to sit and wait for the now jokes.
Whenever I hear "Cloud streaming" from people pushing for the future of gaming, I inevitably go right back to dreading that console manufacturers are trying to go head-on into mandatory-internet gaming, like what Microsoft was doing with XBone before they pulled a 360 on their policies.
I'd prefer that Sony keep the majority of this Cloud stuff out of the equation and just find a cost-effective alternative way of doing native BC for PS3 games on PS4, and some sort of downloadable app for Vita games or something that wouldn't require you to stay connected to use it afterwards...
Cloud-based advances in gaming are only good in moderation right now.
Our networks and stuff aren't nearly strong enough to support the kind of always-connected future that these big-wigs want out of consoles.
as a Gamefly member, i wonder how PS Now will benefit me. I already pay a subscription and i get to play everything.
The way they described the subscription service made me think that it's going to be something like PS+. You won't have access to every game, but games will be made available to the subscribers at different times. This would then let you try games you might not normally have tried. Maybe, like Plus, once you've had access to a game you'll always have access to it as long as you're a subscriber, or it may be that subscribers will have access to set pool of games and once they change them, you no longer have access to the old ones anymore.