Sony and microsft partnership

Sebastian riley · May 17, 2019

I woke up this morning, quite happy. Had a cup of coffee, said hello to my family, did all my morning stuff.

I then opened a forums im apart of, and was immediately in shock. Sony and microsoft are partnering up to support the future of cloud gaming?? Microsoft is already going the digital/streaming only route, and I fear that sony will be soon to follow. I am an avid gamer. I buy almost all new games and preorder alot of them too. I specifically switched to the sony community because I heard of microsoft doing the digital/streaming only route. I loved the fact that the PS5 will still be a disc using console.

I do not have the best internet. I would not even call it good. It is capped at 10Mb/s download, spread out all throughout my devices, with each device being maxed out at 1.2Mb/s download speed. In my area, NO ISP offers anything above 10Mb/s download speed. I dont know why this is, but its not the point. There are alot of people in my position. They either cant afford to get an upgrade, or cant get an upgrade because it is not offered in their area. I know alot of people who have about the same internet speed as myself. I know more than a handful of people that have less than 500 Kb/s download speed. It took me 7 full days to download GTA 5, and 11 full days to download RDR2. For people that have less than 500Kb/s their download time would be more than twice mine. A full 2 weeks to download a game?? With the increase of file sizes in games this number will ONLY increase over time.

What does this mean for people like myself? Is sony going to be going down the same path as microsoft? Will they be releasing a console that still supports disc usage, but focuses on the digital aspect of the console? Will they be releasing a digital/streaming only console such as microsoft??

SpookyCitrus · May 17, 2019

The digital/streaming only device seems like a rumor, physical copy sales are still much more in numbers than digital downloads, there's no way they're going to be going digital/streaming only. Might want to just wait and see, and Sony has already confirmed the Playstation 5 will use disks, and will have backwards compatibility with the PS4 so all of the games you have on PS4 will work on PS5, and that's not a rumor that's a confirmed fact that was given by sony themselves. I think you're worrying over some false information.

tatte · May 17, 2019

...Sony's the one that has been building streaming services, so far Microsoft has been offering physical backwards compatibility and game library subscription that still requires you to download the game before playing. So you're starting on the wrong foot here. Microsoft has been testing the waters for digital only iteration of their console, but even that hasn't been about streaming, since we live in an age (generation) where physical discs still come with downloads.

And what the heck is going on with all your devices? If you have eight devices constantly draining your network, you need to up your security. If it's due to family, consider getting more than one line, I'm assuming you still have mobile network. If you have only one device actively using the network at a time, it should be able to use the whole capacity. Every device that has access doesn't magically carve out an equal share of the bandwidth that somehow becomes unusable by other devices. 10 is 10, if not, your hardware is set up wrong or just outright inadequate.