VGChartz's Evan Norris: "For all its great games, 2021 still felt like a year of transition. With two new home consoles — Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 — on the market but far from firmly entrenched, and with Nintendo content to punt most of its heavy hitters into 2022, the year seemed like it was ramping up toward something to be delivered at a later date. Even the titles of 2021's finest games seem to point toward that sensation of growth and anticipation: Rise, Dread, Horizon. Maybe even Infinite, if you fear those chip shortages will last forever."
PlayStation has added a whopping 56 games to its PlayStation Cloud Gaming catalogue.
There are some big titles in the list, including Forza Horizon 5.
And this is right after they removed Resistance 1 & 2! Does anyone realize this?
(I tried to add it as a posting, but it was old news by the time I realized it)
Playstation cloud gaming? Wasn’t that PS Now until it merged with PS plus….
Can someone tell me what’s going on?
PS Cloud gaming was PS NOW before, now its the Premium tier (top one) of PLAYSTATION PLUS.
if you have PS+Premium you can cloud stream games onto a PS4 or PS5 or onto a PS Portal. The nice thing about being able to stream directly to a PS Portal is that you don't need your PS5 to be turned on and used to remote play.
PS NOW had a PC app, which sadly as far as i know is gone and PS+Premium has no app and no way to stream onto a PC.
The pc app is still there. You can use it to stream just like you used psnow.
You can stream all catalog games on PC and ps5
If you have ps+ premium you can stream from your pc and ps5 all the games from the catalog
It's not just the catalog. You can also stream alot ofthe games you have purchased as well.
I don’t understand cloud gaming. I’ve tried them all. Ps5, Portal, ROG Ally, XB cloud and no matter what I do I just can’t play the games because of the lag and artifacting that breaks immersion.
I have 1gb fiber that was freshly installed as well.
Local remote play works pretty good from PS and XB but strictly streaming the whole game from the cloud has been a mediocre experience for me and definitely not worth the higher cost sub.
Maybe your router? mine works fine even with stock router, but it works much better if I connect to deco.
Maybe, it’s brand new hardware a few months old but is generic isp hardware.
XB remote play local works amazing, and using my portal at home is flawless and runs like it was native.
But anything strictly played in cloud is so inconsistent.
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped the PlayStation Store download charts last month.
April saw a lot of action among the top spots. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and Forza Horizon 5 broke into the top three for the U.S. and EU PS5 charts, while Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate dominated the PS VR2 charts across the board.
Xbox reigns supreme at Playstation!
I wonder what was the reaction from Sony´s first party investors to those numbers and what they plan to do next.
Yeah I'm pretty sure Sony investors are just as concerned as when Sega started releasing games on the PS2...pretty sure the sentiment is "Another one bites the dust".
This dude is having a full melt down since the whole gears announcement lmao.
You think tears rolled down his eyes when he writes this lol
I’m honestly impress how Xbox fanboys can always spin shit. I guess they had alot of practice lol
"Yeah I'm pretty sure Sony investors are just as concerned as when Sega started releasing games on the PS2...pretty sure the sentiment is "Another one bites the dust"."
With their new games legging behind Xbox games in their own territory? Playstation gamers turned into "Xbox gamers" while Satya Nadella beats his chest on how they now have 500 Million MAU?
No, I don´t think so.
No dude, I don´t think they´re happy at all!
"With their new games legging behind Xbox games in their own territory?"
Forza got outsold by minecraft and Indiana jones got outsold by DMCV on the list so those numbers are weak.
Oblivion is number 1 for the month but i doubt it even had a better launch on PS5 than astro bot.
There is no lagging behind xbox games until they start selling 3 to 5 million on PS5 like ghost, spider man, GOW, etc...
LOL! Most of those games are 3rd party games that were already on PS consoles except Forza.
I know expedition 33 is up there but it honestly deserves to be #1 on all platform. Game is fantastic
The top 3 games are Microsoft published titles. Looks like they had a good month. I don't follow Minecraft but how can that game be selling so well for over a decade?
some games just keep selling and some other games keep getting lots of MAU and some others keep making money. it's just how things are in gaming.
I need to check out Wanderer for PSVR2. how come there's almost no marketing for this game?
Days Gone did pretty well considering it only came out on the 25th or 26th of April.
Gamesradar:
Almost four years on from its original launch on Xbox Series X, I'm reliving the opening of Forza Horizon 5 on PS5.
The gloriously over-the-top introduction to Playground Games' open-world racing adventure is just as entertaining as it ever was, but there's one marked difference that steps things up a gear.
After jettisoning out of the back of a plane behind the wheel of a Ford Bronco, I careen over the hilltops of Mexico and I'm instantly taken by the responsive feel of the DualSense controller.
Not only do the adaptive triggers give me tactile feedback as I put the pedal to the metal, but the controller's vibrations change to mirror the traction of the wheels as I hit different surfaces. I really begin to notice how it enhances the experience when the race switches things up and has me speeding across tarmac in the silky smooth Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe.
I've always loved how every vehicle in Forza Horizon 5 feels different to drive.
I love how much shit ppl were happy to talk about Forza Horizon, but now that it’s on PS5, suddenly it’s amazing.
I’ve got news for you - it was always great, and a lot of other Xbox owned games are great too - but nobody wanted to hear it bc dumbass console war bs.
I don't recall hearing shit about FH5 here.
Only just a few ridiculous things from some special people claiming the player counts are fake or suspicious, even though the player counts are *literally displayed on in-game leaderboards* and are based on nearly 4 years of availability as one of the most acclaimed racers in history having gone through several waves of largely-discounted pricing along the way
I’ve never heard anyone talk about forza games. I’ve heard tons of forza over GT sports or 7 though. I’m not into racers but the commentary on the games was never negative. Perhaps you could link some for me?
Dude come on. Stop with the strawman argument. Nobody shit talks Forza Horizon. Everybody knows, even PS gamers, that Forza Horizon is Xbox's best IP.
