Nerdacy: The entire tech industry has been boasting about cloud technology over the past few years; now we actually have the capability with our shiny new consoles–the Xbox One and PS4. For the Xbox One it is notably Microsoft’s Azure servers, but with the PS4, it is the much lauded, highly anticipated Gaikai service now known as the PlayStation Now. So the question I’ve been pondering is, is this an ignorant replacement of backwards compatibility? Or a radical–perhaps logical–step into the future?
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...
Maybe the ONLY reason for me to move from Netflix to this.
But it sounds a little too good to be true.
So many people just use mods these days.
PlayStation Now ISN'T BC. Sony has stated it already. As for the whole repurchasing or renting the same game again I guess it can be seen as unfair. However only because you purchase a copy doesn't entitle you to get any FUTURE perks. You bought that copy alone and you can do as you please with that copy that you bought for that one console.
Is it arrogant to offer a service that will allow people to have access to an incredible library of games that they may have never played or wish to experience again. No.
This service also allows them to keep the price of the PS4 down by not having to pack in the CELL.
Depends on the cost.
imho all consoles should be BC.