Sony’s unexpected, last gasp announcements are continuing in earnest today, with confirmation that the previously announced PS5 cloud streaming is coming as a PS Plus Premium perk later this month. Depending on your region, you’ll be able to enjoy “supported” titles from the platform holder’s top streaming tier without needing to download them as soon as next week – and the functionality will extend to Game Trials, so you’ll be able to test out the time-limited demos effectively on-demand.
The Japanese giant says hundreds of games will be available at launch, and the functionality will extend beyond PS Plus Premium to include digital PS5 titles subscribers own, such as Resident Evil 4, Dead Island 2, Genshin Impact, Fall Guys, and Fortnite. In other words, you’ll be able to play all of these over the cloud, too, assuming they’re in your library. It’s perhaps noteworthy that three of the listed titles are free-to-play.
You’ll be able to stream at up to 2160p, depending on your Internet connection, but will also be able to drop the image quality as required in favour of improved performance. Furthermore, you’ll be able to capture screenshots and up to three minutes of video, all of which will be made available via the Media Gallery on the PS App. “We hope players will enjoy this new PS5 streaming feature that will be automatically added to their PS Plus Premium membership,” the manufacturer said.
Japan will be the first territory to test drive the new feature from 17th October, followed by Europe on 23rd October. And then North America will be last, from 30th October. Do keep in mind that you’ll need to live in a country that supports PS Plus Premium cloud streaming, and there’s a full list on the PS Blog. Will you be checking this feature out at all, or do you think it’s a waste of Sony’s resources? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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Will definitely give this a try. The Ps3 and Ps4 streaming has worked great for me and sometimes just want to quickly get into a game for the stars rewards (sad i know).
@W0rl0ck This is my primary use-case, too. There's been a bunch of PS Stars rewards I've missed because I can't justify downloading an entire game, so this will come in useful for that.
Something no one asked for. Where is the PS2 emulator!!??
Zero use to me. My broadband can’t even handle the PS3 streaming. Never got it to work for more than 5 minutes. 🙁
@DonkeyFantasy makes the remote device a whole lot more interesting if so.
@Jswift56 @DonkeyFantasy It wont because the Remote Device doesn't have any App Support at all. You will only able to use Remote Play with your PS5
Will this cloud streaming work on the PlayStation Portal??
Slow incremental steps (and price increases ) towards the future of PlayStation. Seems good. Next step will be when the handheld can use this, right? That will make the whole thing a lot more tempting. Handheld for streamed indie games, console for the big titles.
This should become a vital part of the gaming experience in the future, you'd imagine. Might even be worth the tiny upgrade fee just so I can check out the current use, to try a bunch of games before deciding which to commit to the SSD, and have access to older games so I can just nip on and do the odd bit, without having to redownload it.
Nice one Jimbo
Nice thing to test some games before even downloading them to the device. Especially with some 100GB+ titles.
@CP2 Nope, Store description in German says you can remote play Games "which are installed on your PS5"
2160p streaming..... then i woke up 🤣
@get2sammyb @W0rl0ck Same tbh. I don't even play Genshin Impact but I wanted the Stars collectibles over the last few days.
Had to do a partial install each time.
Streaming would be so handy for that.
Waiting for Youtubers like Mystic to test it out properly soon and actually trying it for myself before giving thoughts and opinions on it. Mystic just tested out the printer feature on PS3, it's a why feature I know but it's an interesting vid nonetheless
unsure if this will work fine here.
i tried the psone classics, and they are often out of synch. i get a lot of frame skips.
but i will try it for sure.
Happy to play on the cloud. I loved Stadia for what it could do on the cloud, and probably would have continued on with it if… well… there were games and people to play them with on the platform. Destiny 2 was fantastic on the service. Arguably ran a slight bit better for me on Stadia than PS4 and Xbox. I do like xCloud as well, but I’ve noticed that Xbox just runs worse on my internet and there’s been a queue every time I’ve tried to use xCloud the last two months or so. Sort of defeats the purpose if you can download a game in the time it takes to run it on a cloud server. Loved xCloud before that though. Hope Sony’s cloud service is solid.
4K streaming...here I come! Yesterday:PS5 Slim Announcement. Today: Remote Play PS5 games and 4K streaming. Tomorrow:The PS Portal will also support 4K streaming to your TV and can be used whilst somebody else is on the PS5. Can't wait to see what comes the day after that!!!
@Ken_Kaniff They don’t want to do that because they don’t want you buying used discs online.
@get2sammyb do you think streaming would work though? I tried getting psstars rewards from PS4 streaming but never worked. I had to actual download the game to get the awards. Would be nice if they would allow streaming to get the rewards.
This is a nifty upgrade.
@Shad361 I'm not referring to that. I'm referring to them adding new PS2 classics to Premium. We've gotten no new PS2 games since the service launched.
@Ken_Kaniff actually tons of people asked for this.
Gotta say it's pretty impressive they will include your digital games. So if you are away you can leave your PS5 off saving your electric bill, and still stream your games. Very cool. Gives there Portal thing some more worth.
Welp, this will make getting +50 gold on PS Stars a lot easier rather than having to download a crap game just for that bonus.
Oh cool, it's nice that you can stream games that you own. But on what devices can you stream them on?
"...exclusively available on the PS5 console at launch"
I did latch onto this wording from the PS Blog. At launch does imply more ways is coming and I fully believe it's still in the cards for the Portal.
Until then I guess it's nice for game trials but I'd probably download and install any game I actually intend to play properly.
Are some of you being deliberately thick? PORTAL IS A REMOTE PLAY DEVICE ONLY!! Christ sake
Suddenly the PlayStation Portal just became a lot more attractive. Certainly Sony will integrate that functionality into the device. At some point.
I hope.
Would it perchance work on PS4, seeing as there's already an app supposedly doing this from a console? Given the track record with DS4's touchpad (largely used as a glorified Select button) and gyroscope, I'm not holding my breath for most of PS5 library to make indispensable use of DualSense features anyway.
This being available only on the PS5 limits the feature to a few niche use cases. When it will be available on PC at least, it will be a different story.
Yeah I'll be cancelling Premium next May when it renews. This isn't a premium feature. I don't care about cloud gaming at all and I'd rather have some AAA exclusives to the Premium tier or maybe first access (like, the rumour that TLOU:P1 is coming to PS+).
Those are premium features. Being able to stream games isn't. It's a terrible experience and the worst way to play games.
They missed a trick with this Sony Pictures Core service, too. Perfect opportunity to justify the price increase by making a Disney+ like service that's free for Premium subscribers.
This is a terrible addition to Premium.
Aaaaaaaand still Australia misses out. I’ve got a 100+Mb fibre connection, what more does it take seriously?!? 😾👎🏼
All this focus on cloud gaming and remote play etc and it still means nothing without decent internet. A service like that will never be mainstream if the only way it's useful is dependant on your internet connection.
@Americansamurai1 It does work streaming. I have done it many times.
@W0rl0ck I tried it a few times and could never get it to work, maybe it's fixed now.
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