Sony has announced that, starting on the 5th December, select Crunchyroll shows will be added to Sony Pictures Core — the movie-based service that PS Plus Premium subscribers have access to. For those who might now know, signing up to the most expensive PS Plus tier gets you access to a fairly sizeable catalog of films at no extra cost — and now some Crunchyroll anime is being thrown into the deal.
Alex Hutchinson talks about Google Stadia, how Xbox compares, and what cloud gaming needs to move forward.
Cloud gaming still has too many flaws. Fast stable internet, extra costs/subscription services, not ideal for mobile data and why play over cloud via wifi when you have a console/pc that has no input delay and other issues, why buy a game on a cloud service (will always need online even if it's a single player game) when you can actually own it on console/pc...at the same price. Cloud gaming should only ever stay as an option to gaming and playing your games that you already own. Never as the only option.
I disagree, in the sense that the flaws are and have been these same known quantities for some time. You know you need fast and stable internet for the best experience. You know it isn't just free beyond Remote Play. Ownership - you know what ecosystem you're in.
Cloud Gaming is awesome when it's there as the most viable option at the time and works. For me, it was like this morning on my laptop playing Pentiment waiting for my car service to finish. For others it's to quick demo a new game before thinking of hard drive space. Maybe Mac users with gigabit internet want to play GeForce Now and buy a game off Steam only to play it that way.
As long as latency exists, cloud gaming will never thrive no matter how much they advertise that there's low latency or no latency that always ends up being a load of crap
I quite enjoy cloud streaming now. I find it the quickest way to testing if a game is worth committing download time or even $ to buy it. And using dedicated devices like the portal and gcloud makes it all the better.
But like Goodguy says... it's an option, and not the only one. If people understand that, they may start to appreciate this convenience.
I think Xbox is doing Cloud Streaming right, even if I think its only because they're doing hardware wrong.
By enabling xCloud on The Xbox One and Series S they enable players to buy the cheaper console but play games in better resolutions through xCould.
Take the recent Oblivion release for instance. If you play it locally on a Series S it's rendered at 630P and upscaled using FSR to 1260P with a 30FPS cap.
But if you play it on xCloud on the Series S, it's at 1080P native 60 FPS.
So you can get better performance using xCloud then playing local (on the Series S and Xbox One).
It shouldn’t have required a subscription service. Like do the Steam model and just take the % on software sales or have a sub tier where you pay monthly or annually and get perks.
I’m not opposed to the idea of being able to stream games in the highest quality, but Stadia was so poorly handled it turned into a massive sh*t show.
"It shouldn’t have required a subscription service."
It didn't
"Like do the Steam model and just take the % on software sales or have a sub tier where you pay monthly or annually and get perks."
That's literally what it was. Stadia pro gave 2 free games a month (similar to PS+), 4K visuals, and 5.1 Surround Sound. But if you didn't want to pay you could simply buy the games and play them in 1080P. The core service was free.
But google massively screwed up the marketing which led to people thinking it needed a sub to use.
Sony has launched the PlayStation Indies sale this week, offering steep discounts on over 2,000 games from indie developers.
The Epic Games Store has a AAA Freebie this week, and another to put a smile on your face.
The new Crunchy Roll shows are.
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Log Horizon
Radiant
To Your Eternity
Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun
This perk is super underrated, they have been adding movies in IMAX 4k HDR ATMOS Lossless constantly and no one is covering it, of course....
The last movie update included
Patient Zero
Zombieland
Black Hawk Down
Ghostbusters
Moneyball
Pedestrian
The Quick and the Dead
Eight Crazy Nights
This is I think the third update, they added a bunch of Final Fantasy and Resident Evil and a bunch of other movies in the previous update.
8MM
Glory
Snatch
Vantage Point
The Cable Guy
The Net
Christine
U-Turn
Takers
Premium Rush
The Brothers Grimsby
Boondock Saints
FF Advent Children
FF Kingsglaive
FF The Spirits Within
RE Degeneration
RE Vendetta
RE Damnation
There is a TON of other classic movies on there now, truly the most underrated perk IMHO.
Ah Log Horizon
wish we had more >.<
Trash. And now that they bought Rightstufanime, they can become an even bigger bag of turd with no competition.
I always watch my anime free online.
Sony should have just bought HIDIVE