PSU looks at Sony's new streaming service and looks at whether it will mean the end of PlayStation consoles.
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...
IF I HEAR "DESTINED TO FAIL" ONE MORE F*CKING TIME!
I think it will succeed, but not replace PS5, WTF?
What's with the hyperbole?
Why are we limited in thought to only "replacing" or "failure"?
As if there is no middle ground?
It's destined to fail, Playstation Now is only as good as long as they can support and maintain the servers for said games. Were talking a fluid game experience here, the same quality from a game disc. Sony can't guarantee that, especially since the players have to be online to play. As a gamer you can't play whenever you want, you have to be online to play. It's a digital vs physical war, and it all comes down to which side has the most supporters. I think sony feels that this is a stepping stone from the ps4, but it won't sit well with game collectors, since it's an all digital outlet. They want to eradicate physical media, so games have no resale value. It doesn't take a genius to realize this, but then again there are those who are buying digital games at retail price so I don't know.
#FailureAwaits
I'm kidding, it will neither fail nor replace PS5.
Lol we only started this gen in November and we already talk about PS5?
Besides I'm not sure how likely it would be that PS Now is designed to be the next gen anyway. I don't know how they would get the same support for a streaming service from devs and publishers that they get from a normal console. Consoles have a specific purpose, to be easy to use, have a locked down hardware and is a closed environment. With a streaming service that fixed hardware falls away because servers can always be upgraded and you have limited access to that hardware. In that case all Sony studios would become essentially PC only devs.