![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now I don’t want to say ‘ God of War: Android Edition’ but I also don’t want to not say that. But a new job post for Head of Mobile at PlayStation Studios is looking for someone to "focus on successfully adapting PlayStation’s most popular franchises for mobile.” Of course, trying to go head-to-head with Xbox Game Pass might not be the best idea for Sony. (Image credit: Taner Muhlis Karaguzel | Shutterstock) That's provided I don't end up hurling my phone across the carriage when the second-phase of the Father Gascoigne boss fight causes “YOU DIED” to flash up for the umpteenth time. I, for one, would love to be able to play short bouts of Bloodborne on my smartphone when on a dull train journey. Rather than provide a huge range of games on PS Now it could instead deliver a carefully curated library of PlayStation exclusive titles, something akin to the PS Plus Collection but with added smartphone streaming. So, Sony may struggle to catch up here.īut Sony could take a different route. The Redmond company is also a dab hand at software steaming given it has the cloud-based Office suite and other online services. Microsoft has an ace in the hole here with its Azure cloud platform, currently the second largest cloud infrastructure in the world, giving it the tech-plumbing to support game streaming at scale. Whereas PS Now has some 2.2 million subscribers, a respectable if paltry amount when compared to Game Pass.Īnd having a robust streaming service isn't easy. Microsoft can afford to have triple-A games on Game Pass because it makes millions upon millions of dollars a month from it 18 million users paying around $10 equals a hefty $180 million revenue a month. And it could add proper game streaming over cellular broadband. Sony could solve this by expanding PS Now to cover a wider gamut of games, including new titles like Demon’s Souls and Spider-Man: Miles Morales. And while PS Remote Play to allow you to stream games from a PS5 or PS4 to an Android or iOS device, there’s no cloud-powered streaming to Android like Xbox Game Pass has. ![]()
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