PS5 cloud streaming launches this month for PlayStation Plus Premium members
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Best ability is availability and this service is extremely limited either in use cases or regional availability which is still the same handful of countries for the past 10 years.
And Sony ain't exactly a mom and pop store that can't cover the installation of a couple more servers in say: south/central America, Australia and middle east.
It would have been an amazing use case and selling point for a PS portal.
And Sony ain't exactly a mom and pop store that can't cover the installation of a couple more servers in say: south/central America, Australia and middle east.
It would have been an amazing use case and selling point for a PS portal.
Do you seriously think the Portal won’t support PSN streaming directly once the service officially exists?
PS cloud gaming covers 30 countries, where there's way over 90% of the console market.
There are big gaming markets in non-Japan Asia (China, India, Korea, Malaysia) or Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina...) where consoles have very little penetration but are huge in PC or mobile.
Part of the reasons of why Sony is investing more on PC and mobile is to be able to reach the players of these countries (particularly China and India) who maybe never would buy a console but would like to play their games.
I think cloud gaming could help, because for the long term, in the future once most people have a good enough internet connection, router and wifi chips on most potato low end pcs, phones and tablets cloud gaming will be able to help there. Specially if the cloud gaming tech also continues improving.
People with low resources, specially in developing countries from Asia, Latin America, Oceania or Middle East, would be able to play their games without needing to buy expensive gaming hardware, which is the reason of many people to don't buy a PS5 or a gaming PC. Specially if there's a way cheaper or maybe free alternative for them (maybe adding a special tier with a few ads at the start of you game session?).
To highly grow their catalog and network of cloud gaming servers around the world, in addition to grow their PC and mobile presence is an expensive and long investment that will require time and patience. Because in many cases people has a shitty coverage or a shitty internet infrastructure on their country, or it's a huge land and players can't be too far from the server to play decently.
But it's the smarter long term investment to help them highly grow their userbase and business giving the players more ways and options to play their games.
To get the best cloud gaming experience you want to dedicate all or most of your home internet bandwith to play a single PS cloud gaming or Remote Play.
But if you have a good enough network it's possible to make remote play from PS5 to a device while there's a third device using PS cloud gaming in the same LAN, and also having a 3rd person watching Netflix, Youtube or similar.
But the optimal thing is to have a single video or game streaming in your LAN at the same time. Because even if PS5, Portal or a PC could technically do it, game streaming is very demanding regarding internet bandwith so it's better to avoid secondary steams with playing cloud gaming or performing remote play.
Portal is optimized for game streaming, even if as of now it only uses Remote Play, I'm pretty sure once they complete their cloud job on Sony Pictures Core and the recently announced PS cloud improvements (adding support for PS5 games, 4K, HDR, 3d audio, dual sense features, using bought games that arent' from the PS+ Premium subscription etc.) they'll move to make a PS Portal client for cloud gaming that would allow you to play cloud gaming directly from Sony servers to your PS portal, without using your console as bypass (it's more optimal).
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