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Stands to reason the firm would be an industry leader in cloud gaming, right?
Xbox cloud shrinks, while PlayStation grows?
Xbox Cloud Gaming has been hit by queues lately.
I’ve been quite bullish on Xbox Cloud Gaming in the past.
Microsoft was ahead of the curve in this area and still is in a lot of ways.
Increasingly, it’s looking like early skepticism of Sony’s cloud gaming aspirations may have been misplaced.
Xbox Cloud Gaming has been hit by queues lately.
Part of this might be due to the Activision deal, to speculate (perhaps cynically).
According to reports, that’s exactly what Sony is looking to do right now.
Sony is also exploring handheld devices for remote play, with its “Project Q” handheld.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is the best cloud gaming platform for mobile devices right now, but the gap could easily close.
And sure, it doesn’t support cloud right now, but future versions could conceivably do so.
Sony also recently detailed its plan to begin bringing PlayStation 5 games to its PlayStation Plus cloud streaming service.
Not content with beating Microsoft in this area, PlayStation has now begunrolling out4K streaming to cloud beta testers.
With Xbox Cloud Gaming, at best you could get 1080p streaming.
Is Microsoft throwing in the towelagainbefore seeing it through to completion?
Or is there something else going on behind the scenes?
The Logitech G Cloud is the best device for Xbox Cloud Gaming right now, but Google’s stranglehold on how businesses can monetize Android forces Logitech to make it too expensive for most people to consider.
Outlook: cloudy.
What’s going on?
Xbox Cloud Gaming doesn’t have enough servers.
I’m not optimistic right now.
