GameSpot - Justin Haywald tests out PlayStation's new streaming service, PlayStation Now, to see how its performance holds up under the pressure of top tier titles.
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...
Can't wait, Looks promising.
Though I will be waiting till 2015-2016 here in the UK...
We will never get it in Australia - we cant even get 1mb downloads let alone 5.
I'm lucky to scrape up 300kbs... So I can forget this service even exists... XD
I can't wait for this since my ps3 died and I missed out on Ni No Kuni and a bunch of other great games.
I wish they'd just bloody pump out waaay more PS1 & PS2 classics on PSN, a helluva lot more consistently & faster...I mean, sometimes you get nothing in way of PS1 & 2 titles for weeks...then they release some piece of crap, unworthy of "classic" status (on the European/Aus store, at least).....
There are literally around 2000+ games that came to PS1 & there were multiple 100's that SHOULD be on PSN by now, & the same goes with PS2's myriad of titles.
I cannot believe how slack Sony have been with this...I mean, the entire back catalogue of Sony's 1st party titles on PS1 & PS2 SHOULD HAVE BEEN UP ON PSN FOR AGES NOW.... Yet many are still missing, not to mention ALL the 3rd party stuff they should have begged publishers to put on PSN...
I don't care if I have to by some PS1 & PS2 titles again...But I want to own them...I want them stored on my hdd, not a streaming service that needs 24/7 stable internet....I mean, I am lucky enough to have internet that would easily cope, but what if I want to take the machine to family or friends houses, or if my internet crashes?