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Sony practically owns their cloud platform too, with their Gaikai purchase a decade ago[1] and PS Now being "PS3/PS4s in the cloud". [1] https://www.gamesindus
by smileybarry 5y ago
Sony practically owns their cloud platform too, with their Gaikai purchase a decade ago[1] and PS Now being "PS3/PS4s in the cloud".
[1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-07-03-sony-acquisition-of-gaikai-a-genius-move https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-07-03-sony-acqui...
- brendoelfrendo 5y agoThis is actually an area where I think Sony has dropped the ball; PS Now is an interesting service, and they have a pretty interesting catalog of older games from the PS2/PS3 era. But they don't advertise it well enough, and I don't think they put enough focus on new releases and keeping them available the way Microsoft does with Gamepass.
- Hamuko 5y agoThere's rumours of them revamping PS Now and PS+ into a new service.
- brendoelfrendo 5y agoI've heard these, and they should! It would give them direct competition to GamePass Ultimate, which is a tier of service they don't currently offer (unless you buy PS+ and PS Now as separate subscriptions).
- phatfish 5y agoI assumed Sony were migrating to or already using Azure at this point. https://news.microsoft.com/2019/05/16/sony-and-microsoft-to-explore-strategic-partnership/ https://news.microsoft.com/2019/05/16/sony-and-microsoft-to-... At the time Microsoft where not throwing so much money at games development an IP ownership. I wonder how Sony feel about this now.
- smileybarry 5y agoI see. But because they're maintaining datacenters for PS3/PS4 streaming I think they have the potential to go hosted, at the end of the day multiplayer servers are developer-controlled and network servers (e.g.: PSN, Xbox Live) are mostly identity services and such. (Even matchmaking isn't the network's job anymore)