Sony is set to take over cloud gaming. No one thought that PlayStation NOw will ever get up back on its feet again. But the lost excitement about Playstation Now is back among the gaming communiy. However, this was not the case util Late 2019.

Let’s know the whole story behind PlayStation Now’s fall and rise.

We all know that Sony is the parent company for all the Playstation proucts. The company also has its own cloud gaming service called PS Now. Sony launched PlayStation Now in 2015. It was the first company to come up with such an innovative idea for cloud gaming.

You had to pay a montly fee for the service and you cloud play 300 Plus PS4, PS3 and PS2 games using your internet connection on your PS4 or PC. You did not need to download the game nor there was any option to do that at that time. You could just stream play the game over the internet. The experience was quite good if you had a fast and reliable internet connection.

The playform had a decent amount of games in its library. However, everyone knew that the platform could still get better if Sony would add more recent titles to the library.

Sony had a monopoly in cloud gaming that time, so the company was not too eager to give attention to its users. Sony did not know that soon cloud gaming industry was about to change.

Since the 2019 cloud gaming industry started taking a turn against PS Now.

Microsoft started beta testing of its service called xCloud in which they offered some great Xbox Exclusive titles along with some other AAA games like GTA V, WWE, Hitman, etc.

This beta testing was available for android phones and for free which resulted in a huge amount of people applying for it. By September 2019, xCloud already had hundreds of thousands of testers and the same story was with Nvidia’s cloud gaming platform GeForce Now.

Soon Google launched its cloud gaming service- Stadia. Which did get some hype in the beginning and got a good response from customers buying their founders pack. Stadia had very little but AAA games at launch and promised to add more AAA titles constantly.

Now everyone started looking at Sony, it was clear that PS Now has a huge potential, but it is not doing well because Sony has kind of forgotten about the service and very few good games are being added to the platform every month.

Luckily, Sony realized it soon after Stadia’s launch and announced 3 AAA titles including Uncharted 4 available on the platform for 3 months. This was not enough as soon, Sony also reduced the subscription fee for the service makes it clear that their plans for cloud gaming are not dead.

Sony’s strategy of making 3 new games available on the platform and keep it available for 3 months was a great step and worked hugely in their favor. Since then, PS Now got some great titles like Horizon Zero dawn, God Of War, Uncharted A Lost Legacy, etc.

Having Spider-Man on PS Now this early was totally unexpected. This clearly shows that Sony has tightened its seat belt to race against other cloud gaming companies.

This strategy of making its exclusives available on both PC and console via an exclusive subscription plan is very good, and we are looking forward to seeing some more exciting games on the platform. It would be great if PS Now cloud get Detriot Become Human, Death Stranding, etc.

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