SONY’S SERVICE COULD RUN ON MICROSOFT’S CLOUD PLATFORM
The company is also “putting resources into expanding its efforts in cloud gaming,”
Bloomberg reported, perhaps to keep up with efforts like
Nvidia’s RTX 3080 tier of GeForce Now and
Microsoft’s Xbox Series X upgrade for xCloud. However, it’s unclear if Spartacus would run on Microsoft Azure following the deal signed between Microsoft and Sony
in 2019; if it does, it would mean that Sony’s service runs on the same platform as its competitor.
This new Spartacus service sounds like it would put Sony on par with Microsoft’s Game Pass Ultimate subscription, which allows people to play online multiplayer, access a huge library of titles from Microsoft and other companies, and stream games from the cloud. Sony also appears to be emulating Microsoft’s approach to offer
multiple tiers of services — only the $15 per month Game Pass Ultimate plan offers cloud gaming, for example.
However, one of the key perks of Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate is day-one access to Microsoft’s first-party titles, but that might not be available with Spartacus. Schreier said in a tweet that “don’t expect Sony to include its big new games day one like Game Pass does.”
Set to launch next spring.
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