PlayStation 5 Games' Cloud Streaming Beta Launched

General news News PlayStation PlayStation News 08/10/2023

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Sony is one step ahead of Microsoft, with the Xbox Cloud Gaming service (initially known as xCloud) lacking in one area.

While testing has started on the new PlayStation 5 firmware beta (the contents we’ve previously reported), another unrelated beta test is underway. Some PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers have been invited to run games from the cloud. Yes, but these aren’t PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 titles; they’re PlayStation 5 games.

On the ResetEra forum, it was posted that streaming is not limited to 1080p resolution but that it is possible to run games in 4K from the cloud. Xbox Cloud Gaming, available as part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, cannot do it. Interestingly, the CMA, the UK’s competition and markets watchdog, is preventing Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard King for fear of dominating the cloud market when they are not the ones who are already at the 4K streaming stage. (Indeed, Microsoft has been overtaken in this respect even by PC services such as Nvidia’s GeForce Now…)

The two screenshots below (Fortnite, Sackboy: The Big Adventure) show how it runs from the cloud and natively (cloud, native order used for images). The feature will be available to all PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers “soon,” according to Sony. In the meantime, here’s the list of supported games: God of War: Ragnarök, Horizon Forbidden West, Fortnite, Fall Guys, Destiny 2, Returnal, Demon’s Souls, Death Stranding, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Destruction All Stars, Fall Guys, Demon Slayer (trial), Resident Evil Village (trial)

4K PlayStation 5 game streaming is currently only available on that console but will likely be available for the Project Q handheld. According to the leaks, the device runs on a modified Android operating system, has a low battery life, and will be released sometime this year. While streaming at higher resolutions is a great new feature, we should add that it will require a stronger, more stable internet connection if the signal isn’t dumbed down to, say, 1080p…

Source: WCCFTech

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