“I’m Almost Sure Cloud Gaming Will Feature” In PS5 and the Next Xbox, Says War Thunder Dev

Gaijin Entertainment CEO Anton Yudintsev is confident that cloud technology will have a huge part to play in the next generation of console gaming.

[Ratchet75]

Well it already exist on ps4, so I don't see why wouldn't it be on ps5.

[badz149]

right? PS Now has been available for years now

[AnthonyDavis]

Only want cloud processing to assist a local game, not full game processed over a stream. The latter is bad for gamers cause it causes extra input lag.

[rainslacker]

kind of thought the point of cloud gaming was that it wasn't restricted to the console, so not like the War Thunder dev is being overly insightful here. Or is this just the daily gaming bolt making inane observations by random devs article?

[Donnie81]

Everyone gets to enjoy the power of the cloud!

[Eonjay]

The most ironic thing about this is that the PlayStation/PC community has had this for about 4 years. And the tech has existed longer than that. Thats why I can see this as a reason to go green next gen. My issues with Now was not the quality of the service but rather the it was too many games to actually enjoy. My backlog is already fierce. What were the chances of me playing all 700+ games on now? So to me, real life made the monthly investment useless in practice.

[chiefJohn117]

Right cause all 700+ is good and your type of game 😒

(That's like downplaying Netflix by saying what's the chances of me watching every single movie available as if you'd even be interested in every single movie to begin with and even so htf is that a negative? It's a requirement you play/watch them all like wtf?lol. "Ya the service was trash too much good stuff to play" 😂 every time I think I've heard it all. Better sell my console there's too many great games available it's become useless in practice roflmao)

[LOGICWINS]

PS Now is a cool service, but it doesn't include 1st party titles when they launch. Game Pass does. Hopefully MS applies enough pressure on Sony so they can at least consider it.

[Eonjay]

I mean't that is why I CAN'T see this as a reason to go green next gen. Because yes, the selection may be good but I even if I am only interested in 10% of the games on it, I would never get to them all and the cost of the service would equate to wasted money.

[Dragonscale]

@logic, thats because Playstation games are too good to launch on PS Now unlike ms' current offerings having to release on gamepass because they're so mediocre lol.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Most illogical nonsense that I keep hearing. Spend millions of dollars only to allow gamers to play it for $10.

"Well, it's still being sold."

But why would you buy any game for $60 or whatever price when you can play it for cheap at launch? Amazing AAA or not, no one is that dumb to pay more at retail to play the game when they could pay less on a service.

Why spend money on marketing, why spend money in getting the best choice actors, why spend money developing game engines as a business. Why spend money on packaging and retail deals....

Some Xbox fans have gone beyond dedicated consoles and exclusives that matter that sell consoles. Microsoft has been so dominated this Gen, now it's "Sony better follow suit with Microsoft by putting their expensively made games on a service at launch or they're doomed and will be behind the times."

Such backwards thinking. "I hope Microsoft applies enough pressure."

What are you broke or something? Can you not afford Sony's amazing exclusives and want them to give them away like most Xbox Studio junk?

[r2oB]

@logic

You should hope that more pressure is being applied to Microsoft to release better games. It doesn't matter if they release their first party titles at launch if a majority of them are bad to medicore games. Most gamers aren't looking at Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2, and Crackdown 3 and saying "Let me maintain a monthly subscription to Gamepass so I can play these games". No. They are getting Gamepass at severely discounted prices and promos (sometimes for $1 for a month) and saying things like "well I have Gamepass already, might as well try these games". That's a big difference.

Of all the stuidos Microsoft recently acquired, I think only a few will be focusing on AAA high quality games while most will be told to crank out a bunch of mediorce (if that) titles to flood Gamepass with a bunch of "first party titles launching with Gamepass".

Right now I don't have any game streaming services, but if I had to choose one I would choose the platform with more quality titles available, right now that's PSNow. One day I'll probably get a game streaming service when my kids get a bit older and start gaming more. Maybe by then Microsoft will get their things together. Not holding my breath at all.

[rainslacker]

That's awesome. Not only are we getting something no one really asked for, we're going to get something no one seems to really want. I'm super excited I guess.

[chiefJohn117]

"no one asked for" dumb thing to say. No one asked for a second analog stick but now we can't game without it. Using the no one asked for excuse to down play is a stupid thing to do cause half of the great things in gaming wasn't asked for.

[RememberThe357]

What? Of course people wanted duel analog sticks! That's how the PlayStation got the duelshock in the first place.

[rainslacker]

@Chief

You guys were asking for cloud compute? Before MS announced it, I question if you ever heard of it. I doubt you could even use the technical term for what MS is doing when talking about it, because all they're doing is putting a pretty marketing term on the tech, and I never once saw it asked for. Hell, when MS announced it, almost no one claiming it was so great even knew we had been using the same technology for 2-3 decades already in any given MMO.

You guys want cloud compute? Cloud compute is great I guess, and it's really nothing new, but no one was asking for it, and as it is now, it hasn't been proven to be something people should really want, because I see more people seem to say that more power on the hardware would be more desirable. I mean, X1X is the best place to play games because it's the most powerful right? If this wasn't a console war driven thing, it's be a curiosity and probably get no attention beyond some PR release from the non gaming divisions which actually created the tech.

Oh, and I recall the first announcement of an analog stick on the N64. EGM, a print publication at the time, said it was great, but it'd be better with a 2nd one to control the camera easier, based on some PC controllers having that ability.

When I say no one asked for it, it isn't a stupid thing to say, or an excuse. It's a generality. Even now, no one is really asking for it. When I say no one, I'm saying the general market doesn't care, and aren't clamoring for it. Fan boys are making it a big deal, and maybe one day it will be, but the importance being placed on it is more than it really deserves for the time being.

[IMissJimRyan]

I agree with most recent articles. A lot of them are claming that streaming, cloud computing and subscription are the future of the games.

BUT, I think that will be the future because it's better for the companies and not for the consumers.

[nucky64]

i think the companies will lose a decent amount of gamers (and money) if it goes to all digital/sub.....and missiing out on money is never good for companies - so, until high internet speeds are readily available everywhere, it won't happen.

[IMissJimRyan]

Maybe they lose some tradicional gamers. But they will reach a broad audience that is unreacheble now.
Think about Netflix. Lage base but some lost in The process.
In the end The money must be bigger.

[ILostMyMind]

@locomorales
Streaming games is not the same as streaming movies. And it never will be.

[ILostMyMind]

Don't sign it. They will get the message.

[IMissJimRyan]

Never is a strong word. I don't think they are aiming for 100% of today's game base. If they lost (and they will) some on the road it's fine. The broad audience will compensate the loss.

Undestand One point: companies dont want only us. They want everybody. Maybe game streaming is not technical achievable today, but movies and music were not yesterday too.

[sin7279]

Gamingshit says lol hahha!

[Gamist2dot0]

I don't feel confident in cloud gaming right now, but will see when the time comes, says gamer.

[Hardiman]

Let's see , a dev I've never heard of and it's from Gamingbolt lol I didn't even have to look!

[timotim]

Well course it is. Sony will continue investing into services like PS Now, PS Plus and PS View. Anyone who says otherwise is deluted. In fact, they will invest more than they ever have before in the past.

[Kaze24]

They have to since it looks like it's going that way, all them pony fanboys hating on M$ and the powah of the cloud and now they're embracing it cause sony also doing the same now. lol hilarious.

[RememberThe357]

What? So Crackdown 3 doesn't suck and looks even better than when they announced it years ago? Where are these Sony cloud powered games that fans are talking up? Sony's had PSNow for years and it's still a niche thing. No one's flipping the script and saying PSNow is going to take over next gen.

[DigitalRaptor]

Don't do this to yourself. Look at Crackdown 3 - the game that Microsoft's early "power of the cloud" claims and marketing speak was pretty much resting on. Not impressive, not even coming close to what they sold people on with that early demo. The "power of the cloud" narrative was shot down (and mocked) because people knew what MS was promising could not be achieved and ended up proving it with their latest release. Not because you believe people were claiming cloud compute is not a real thing.

You're making false equivalences here. Sony has in fact been investing in cloud compute for years, but has not been going around marketing their console as being made "4x MORE POWERFUL" by the "power of the cloud" and certainly are not going around showing impossible smoke and mirrors multiplayer demos, at this point. What is hilarious about people mocking something that MS brought on with their own words and deeds.

[FGHFGHFGH]

Actually Sony said they will invest more into their games. It's worked well for them this gen.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Sony believes in traditional hardware.

[timotim]

Everyone is investing into their games. Shoot, Microsoft just bought 6 gaming studios and created another from scratch...sounds like games investment to me. Doesn't mean they won't also invest into cloud gaming and services. Same can be said for Sony. PS Now was the first to market out of all the current and future players...they ain't going no where and will also double down on PS Now over next-Gen.

[Kaze24]

Wasn't all them pony fanboys joking about the powah of the cloud! And now all of them it's all about sony has had it for like for years! Ah what a turn around they done, all the sudden they believe in the powah of the cloud, good thing M$ invested in the azure servers almost a decade ago.

[ILostMyMind]

You like being embarrassed, don't you?

[DigitalRaptor]

How did Crackdown 3 turn out though? How about that atrocious, embarrassment of a MP mode that supposedly requires twelve XB1 consoles to run a game, but looks no more impressive than an offline game like Red Faction Guerrilla which came out 10 years ago.

Nobody doubted that cloud computing was a real technological thing. What people doubted (and rightfully mocked) was what Microsoft tried to sell its audience for quite some time this generation. That GDC demo that fanboys paraded around as something that would embarrass the PS4's capabilities ended up being smoke and mirrors as Crackdown 3's final form makes very clear. They tried to propel and market weak hardware based on things that haven't been achieved. Better luck next time I guess? The playing field is open.

[ILostMyMind]

Cloud game is featuring right now on PS4.

[BuildTheWall]

Much of the U.S. still has slow internet speeds , takes an entire day to download a 30 - 50 gb game & there are still over 25,000,000 of us that still do NOT have access to high speed internet & will remain this way for at least 6 more years , myself included. Yes there are many that do NOT & will NOT have access to high speed internet due to the areas terrain.

[frostypants]

"Blah blah blah [insert speculation] blah blah blah [unreleased console], says dev" - 95% of GamingBolt articles.