"Wiping the floor"? You watched the same video I did?

@ThinkThink

"That brings us to the next crucial point: how PS Plus Cloud compares to Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming. The service is still technically in beta, but it's been this way for years and is offered as an Xbox Game Pass perk on the Ultimate subscription. It's a fair point of comparison in this respect but, to be blunt, the Xbox cloud offering simply does not compete with the PS+ Premium service from a technological perspective, for a multitude of reasons."

"In image quality, for example, it's significantly worse, with a maximum 1080p resolution video stream against 4K on PlayStation. The bitrate is also visibly lower in step with that resolution target, something that's evident in just about every game we tested. A Plague Tale Requiem, compared running in its 60fps mode across PS5, PS+ Cloud and Xbox Cloud Gaming (image comparison further down this page), shows just how far Microsoft is behind here."

"There's an extra twist to this too. Not only is the video stream lower quality on Xbox's cloud gaming service, but users are being served the Xbox Series S versions of each game I tested - despite confirmation from Microsoft that xCloud datacentres are built on Series X silicon."

"Speaking of value, the cost of each has to be mentioned too. The PlayStaion Plus Premium tier costs £13.50/$18 per month or at a slight discount for £120/$160 a year. For that you currently get 851 games available to stream right away, 201 of which are PS5 titles. The catalogue varies by region too, but it's an impressive number. And as a bonus, specific additional PS5 titles are available for cloud streaming if you happen to have bought them through the PlayStation store already, such as Cyberpunk 2077. By comparison Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, the tier that includes streaming, costs a similar £13/$17 a month. In exchange, you get access to 402 cloud-ready games overall, including 225 for Series X/S."

I would not say 'wiping the floor'. But it seems the PS cloud streaming is just better at this point in time.

I prefer physical, but I'd definitely rather download to the console then to rely on the internet

Well if you have say a service that provides you ps5 digital games for “free” and you were on the fence or waiting for a deal and it’s there. Want to try it immediately and not use your storage the streaming makes a lot of sense.

If you are equipped to handle streaming and higher quality and the latency isn’t an issue or not twitch for say an Action or competitive game. Streaming can also work there, technology advances in options no reason to buckle down on an old method that isn’t going away.(well for Xbox it is)

@just_looken

what video did you watch? this is comparing streaming to PS5 and streaming to the Series X! the only thing xbox streaming is doing better here is having slightly lower controller input lag in Back4Blood and CP2077 while having worse graphics and framerates.

keep being in denial all you want but stop spreading false info.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-

Timezone thing maybe.... RIP