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[Robb]

I've never seen any waiting screen in my life. I'm sure it's not a recurrent thing otherwise we would hear about it more.

Also...comparing streaming games with streaming a video that you can't interact with makes no sense.

That’s good, but as the service grows and more people join in I assume more such cases can/will occur. Especially for new very popular releases, which is also unfortunate.

I have no idea, I’m just curious. But I guess that’s a “no” on the issue being solvable?

 

[Horseganador]

The truth is that it is surprising how much better the PS streaming is than the Xcloud of Xbox.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Ridiculous, imagine starting Netflix to watch Squid Game or something and you can’t because a lot of people are already watching.

Does anyone know if this could be eliminated entirely in the near future? Or are games just cursed with this compared to music/movies?

The above photo is when PlayStation introduced Cloud streaming with Portal. I guess lots of people tried this new feature at once, hence the waiting queue.

Other than that one instance, I've never seen or heard of this screen with PS+ Cloud Streaming.

With xCloud, it's a common occurrence.

Having said that, yes, it is ridiculous, which is why this future of cloud gaming sucks.

 

[coachmcguirk91]

The truth is that it is surprising how much better the PS streaming is than the Xcloud of Xbox.

It's a matter of cost. Right now, companies are losing money with cloud. Playstation only allows access of cloud through Playstation consoles and now the Portal through their own subscription service. It's a relatively small group of people compared to Microsoft which has cloud gaming available pretty much everywhere, including every PC.

Microsoft has been probably been waiting for the financials to make sense before coming of their cloud beta and making it a subscription service like others have. It sounds like they are doing just that with their recent "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign

 

[Fahdis]

I heard Xcloud is poop. Have they upgraded it. The digital foundry video on it showed how shit it was vs PS streaming

Yea, new to me. I used XCloud a year ago

Tell me you are clueless without telling me you are clueless

Shut up and BLEED you motherf....

PlayStation cloud streaming is very impressive

Sony tempted me into upgrading my Essential Plus membership into Premium for the next few months. It was worth it to me so I could demo the beta game streaming to my Portal. I had tried Stadia and x-cloud before and was very unimpressed with the resolution and lag. I was not prepared for what...

www.neogaf.com

So you never tried them huh.

Look at above post, WHORE.

 

[Sooner]

GeForce Now >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> XCloud >>>>>>> PlayStation

The fact you say Xcloud is better than PlayStation proves you don't know what you're saying.

You are saying what you think SHOULD be the case, but it is very clearly not. PlayStation streaming works Much better than Xbox and that's just fact.

 

[Matsuchezz]

I once paíd for xcloud to play hellblade 2 and that garbage was awful. Money thrown directly to the trash bin. I was pissed off.

 

[Sooner]

Disclaimer: I was in Texas about 1 year back, close to a central server located in Austin for both GeForce and MS with 2GB Fiber and 1 ms latency. Not sure where the PS one is but all felt like I was playing local. My issue with PlayStation was the games on offer, not the service itself since I've played an finished alot of Sony games and am new to being a Green Rat. Ask for CONTEXT you fucking whores.



No it isn't.



Are you ok? Sounds like you used GeForce Now 2 years ago on the highest tiers. Here's what it looks like now and this is without the upgrade of 240 FPS and Reflex for Premium Tier.

It also works in a country without any servers albeit high latency, I'm in Pakistan right now and my games still work. XCloud and PS won't even load.

*when he finds out what this Icon means*



I know bro. Not everyone can handle my sexy.



Try is near a good server blade.

This reminds me of the few people who kept trying to convince people Stadia was the best thing ever and would take over the industry.

 

[onnextflix5]

I have played GeForce Now, Xbox Cloud Gaming and PlayStation Premium streaming all on a wired connection and WiFi on my Steam Deck. GeForce Now is amazing and Xbox Cloud is a very close second. PlayStation Plus is good on a wired connection, but the app on Steam Deck is extremely buggy. Sony just needs to fix the app and it will be much better.

Troll much?

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Look at above post, WHORE.

 

[Fahdis]

The fact you say Xcloud is better than PlayStation proves you don't know what you're saying.

You are saying what you think SHOULD be the case, but it is very clearly not. PlayStation streaming works Much better than Xbox and that's just fact.

I was talking about the Cloud when you people were still crying about Physical distribution. Go back. Still a GeForce Now Founder. Was the first to play on Gakai (PS Now), Beta tester for XCloud. And I fixed the first post btw.

This reminds me of the few people who kept trying to convince people Stadia was the best thing ever and would take over the industry.

Stadia was amazing in terms of tech minus its business model. No one is going to start a Cloud library when they have backlogs from 2009. Doomed to fail.

 

[Robb]

Having said that, yes, it is ridiculous, which is why this future of cloud gaming sucks.

Yeah, I just can’t see it ever becoming the equivalent of Netflix/Spotify if this sticks. Doubt people would use those services if you had to queue to watch/listen to things.

Not that it needs to though, it’s a nice bonus feature either way of course, but I’d imagine that’s the vision for most companies.

 

[SweetTooth]

Yeah, I just can’t see it ever becoming the equivalent of Netflix/Spotify if this sticks. Doubt people would use those services if you had to queue to watch/listen to things.

Not that it needs to though, it’s a nice bonus feature either way of course, but I’d imagine that’s the vision for most companies.

Its an easy albite a costly solution for any provider.

Sony should aim for their servers to maintain a maximum around 100m users max at a time.

MS in the other hand should aim for 6 users max at a time

 

[GymWolf]

Only sony streaming service i tried was with their retrogamimg stuff with ps2 games and it was dogshit even with a superfast wired connection, maybe they improved since then...

 

[Geruda065]

These cloud stream gamers probably play their games in movie mod on tv.