PlayStation’s history is packed with missed opportunities. Sony was first to the casual game boom with PlayStation 2 party games like SingStar and Buzz, but it allowed Nintendo to waltz in with the Wii and take that audience away. It was doing controller-less gaming long before anyone at Xbox had even uttered the words Project Natal, but the Kinect quickly stole the EyeToy’s thunder.
Now history looks set to repeat itself: the industry is aflutter with chatter of Microsoft and Google, as the two tech giants appear poised to lock horns over our new streaming future. Meanwhile, the readily available PlayStation Now just rolled out in several new countries, but no one’s paying attention.
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...
Sony could launch PS Now on any device just like Xcloud and Stadia if they choose.
Sony could also put all of their PS4 exclusives and potentially PS5 exclusives on the service in the future which would give PS Now a huge advantage over the competition.
Downgraded 720P visual streaming of a huge library of old games that nobody has any interest in playing with bad input lag for $19.99 a month? /SMH
You be the judge,
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I am still yet to see 1 person that says they actively subscribe to PS Now. I have tried it my self and have seen a lot say they also tried it but not 1 person that gives it a high rating and maintains an active yearly subscription.
PS Now is the old Onlive service from 2003. Google Stadia and Project X Cloud are better in every single way and are on another level compared to PS Now.
Sorry but sometimes you just have to give people the hard truth. You are welcome.
No GamePass, No Stadia, and No PSNow. The day physical releases are halted (happened already with PC) is the day I quit gaming.
Psnow has no future in this business with its broken infrastructure.
Psnow:
-Majority its library are older ps3/360 era games and most of its ps4 game are lesser known indie titles. With only a handful of notable titles which aren't even Ps4's best.
-Streams at 720p
-Limited download option.
-Performance issues on wireless connections.
-Ridiculously pricey for a month.(no one goes for a yearly subscription if games are coming on a regular basis)
-No day one ps4 exclusive and limited ps4 exclusive.
-Receives games at a slow pace
-No Ps1 games and an abysmal Ps2 lineup. No growth on the retro side of things