PlayStation moving Hard into Cloud gaming

JAHGamer said:

Yet ANOTHER big Cloud gaming service bites the dust. Btw this is one of the companies that signed a 10 year deal with Microsoft. It definitely won’t be the last to die. I told you guys, anything Xbox is doing, Sony should stay FAR AWAY from. You guys still believe “Sony HAS TO DO IT!!!”

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JAHGamer said:

its unclear but they are giving everyone refunds who bought their lifetime memberships in advance similar to Stadia. I don’t know why they’d give money back if it was just the beta ending. They’re big for cloud standards, which is why msft made a deal with them

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anonpuffs said:

Would be interesting if it was a shell corp spun up by MS so they could make "deals" with "competing cloud services" and now their function is done they're no longer needed lol

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JAHGamer said:

Yet ANOTHER big Cloud gaming service bites the dust. Btw this is one of the companies that signed a 10 year deal with Microsoft. It definitely won’t be the last to die. I told you guys, anything Xbox is doing, Sony should stay FAR AWAY from. You guys still believe “Sony HAS TO DO IT!!!”

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JAHGamer said:

Yet ANOTHER big Cloud gaming service bites the dust. Btw this is one of the companies that signed a 10 year deal with Microsoft. It definitely won’t be the last to die. I told you guys, anything Xbox is doing, Sony should stay FAR AWAY from. You guys still believe “Sony HAS TO DO IT!!!”

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Remij said:

The way that tweet is worded is not clear at all what they are doing... Are they shutting down the beta and moving on to the next phase, which would be the full release?

It leaves it open to interpretation and isn't even clear in the slightest.

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shrike0fth0rns said:

I would hardly call a gaming service 99.99% of gamers on the entire planet have never heard of “ big”. This company failing is no indication that Sony would also fail.

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JAHGamer said:

look at my other post, they're giving out refunds for people who bought the lifetime membership. Why give refunds if it's just the beta ending ?

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Remij said:

I dunno, they may be changing the terms of service and it may require a new subscription?

It's just weird why they say "beta phase" and "We're excited to have you join us for the next phase of our journey"... That doesn't sound like the end of it.

But of course, they should have also stated what the next phase is... So while I agree that it's likely the end.. it's stupidly worded and ambiguous as to what is going to happen next.

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ksdixon said:

It must be doable somehow. People chop up console hardware and make "handheld ps2's" etc, some can even take discs if I recall correctly. A regular PS2 would have had a plug socket to run, the handheld not so. There's cut down versions of PS3 OS over PS+, don't tell me Sony can't do something to PS4 Portable standard. It's ridiculous, especially in the face of half-products like VitaTV, Project Q and whatever they called that steaming-fan for phone.

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JAHGamer said:

big for CLOUD STANDARDS

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