Sony is putting a heavier emphasis on their PlayStation Now service, but can it compete with Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription?
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.
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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.
It just needed downloads and to be priced closer to gamepass. And Now it can compete. It has everything except for day one exclusives releases, which I think I doesn’t necessarily need. Exclusives are selling well and people don’t mind that. That was just MS way to get people get their exclusives. It hasn’t been a good Generation for those
No, because Microsoft expanded their game pass to PC, you can download the games locally which will always be superior. About 6 Games are added every month to Xbox Game Pass for PC and Console. All newer indie and triple A games are added day one or a few weeks after to Xbox Game Pass like...
The Outer World
Outer Wild
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Metro Exodus
World War Z
Dirt Rally 2.0
Shemue collection
etc..
At this point in time, no. Game Pass still offers a much better library to choose from.
Xbox fans will say gamepass is better, PS fans won't really give a crap either way. That's usually how articles like this go.
It definitely can. Sony also needs to expand this service to more platforms again as well