PlayStation Now could be a major selling point for the PS5, if only Sony would lean into the service’s huge library, excellent functionality and reasonable price. Here’s how the service could make meaningful improvements during the next console generation.
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...
Seems clear to me that the move to Azure was part of an overall, much-needed revamp and reboot of the service. When PS Now on Azure launches, I would think we would see improvements all around.
I don't want it to rival gamepass. Gamepass is a Petrie dish to cultivate mediocrity and make substandard and seldom releases acceptable.
You Xbox gamers have no outrage. If PlayStation gamers had to wait 1 to 2 years between AAAs or wait 4 years for Crackdown we would riot. Sony would hear how unhappy we were.
Xbox gamers just say oh well, I got it for free on gamepass, it's cool bruh. Youse need to get mad or keep getting the same.
Keep PSNow as a side thing we can easily ignore, not a primary focus.
On the pc side of things, they can make a lot of improvements. First off, make the games that are available on pc downloadable. That would instantly make it more appealing. Next, improve the resolution. Next, and I can't believe I am still asking for this, ADD A SEARCH BAR. I have been asking for this for years and PS Now STILL doesn't have it. How can something so basic be excluded for so long? It makes searching for specific games so awkward.
Another thing that bothers me is that some games are only available in certain regions. Like Eternal Sonata, it's not available on PS Now in Europe, but is in the US.
Would could help is integrating psnow and playstation plus so not only u get free games but u have psnow that includes all past games aswell. And with Azure servers could improve the resolution and quality