The secret to selling gamers on PlayStation Now, says David Perry, is to not tell them what it is.
“We decided not to explain the cloud to people,” Perry, CEO of Gaikai, says of his company’s signature game-streaming service, now a part of Sony’s game brand. “It doesn’t matter where it’s coming from, or how it works. They’re interested, they click, and a game appears. We saw gamers tweeting, ‘what is this magic?’”
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...
Going by this article PS Now will be a force to be reckoned with, and could possibly transcend the Playstation brand! At this point it's a far bigger endeavor than what any other console maker or, developer/producer have in the works! Plus the whole infrastructure, server support and source coding have been redone to allow for multiple application for different platforms, even those not Sony exclusive.
PS Now is also Server based Cloud technology at work, without the need to throw around Buzzwords! And from the article PS Now will boast a fairly large server infrastructure of its own! Especially if the service is slated to roll out to the entire Playstation fanbase at some point, as well as be available to non-proprietary hardware as well.
Only thing I can say is, Sony is not messing around this gen.
I think this is a great service, really reminds me of the good old days renting SNES games at Blockbuster Video. The prices are okay, they just need to get rid of the 4 hour option and include a free 30 minute trial for every game
Prices are too high you all say, and yes they probably are. But don't whine about the prices when Sony officially said they are beta testing PS Now to find the correct pricing.
I rented killzone 3 on ps now for 30 days which was around $7.99 and the latency is just to high to enjoy it. The quality is reasonable but the latency just sucks. I could feel the cross hairs moving too far over whenever I was aiming almost made it completely unplayable. I have a 20mbps connection and the connection test said I could play yet it felt unplayable. Hope they can make the service better or it's doa for me.
its still in open beta one main reasons why i refuse to pay for something until its stable they need to pust few test games to test latency like older high demanding game like uncharted 1 or god of war 3 but its only like 1 hour stream test for input latency.
i have 100 mbps latency is quite horriblei n closed beta on free games they had on offer