• JackDark@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    This update will also include a beta version of a new feature that many fans have been asking for – support for cloud streaming on PS Portal. When the update is live, PlayStation Plus Premium members will be able to participate in a beta for cloud streaming on PS Portal, allowing select PS5 games in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog* to be streamed directly from our servers, even without a PS5 console.

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      9 hours ago

      Wait. It didn’t support the PSN cloud from the start?

      Like, I thought it was questionable that it couldn’t play ANY games locally (PS1 games run on a potato at this point) but sure. But I assumed it at least supported the cloud streaming Sony occasionally remembers they try to sell.

      This thing was SOLELY for playing people’s own PS5s? What the fuck?

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      10 hours ago

      From an outside perspective it’a so strange that this thing doesn’t work with Xbox live and other cloud providers. Or does it?

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        It does not. Currently, all it does is replace the “PS Remote Play” app you can put on your phone, which is basically just remote desktop for your PS5. Without a PS5, all you have with the Portal is a screen that doesn’t do anything.

        This update will allow it to stream games from Sony’s servers, instead of from your own PS5. But it is still limited just to Sony’s platform.

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      11 hours ago

      How is this not “related to games”? It’s a thing that has the sole purpose of enabling people to play games.

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      9 hours ago

      REALLY curious how “rigid” your interpretation is and how you feel this is not “related to games”

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        8 hours ago

        Maybe taking the “Playstation has no games” meme too literally