you are right. i totally forgot how bad they are with these things xD
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I don’t see Sony starting up their own store front as it would just be a waste of money, time and resources. It also wouldn’t prevent their games from being on the next generation Xbox/PC hybrid console. It would also cost them even more money if they decided to go ahead with their own store front and then make their own games timed exclusive before going to Steam which if you’re releasing games on PC, you 100% must be on Steam day one because if you’re not, your game isn’t going to do all that well when in finally does release on Steam as everyone would have moved on already.
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Hate to spoil your fun. But PS cloud gaming is already available on your phone, PC and existing console. Has been for years. (Long before Xbox.)
The fact that they haven’t done much with it is a different story, of course.
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Really? I thought they had PC streaming back in the PS3 days but disabled it at some point. Never mind then, I thought the Portal was the only currently supported way to stream.
There may have been a break when they re-branded from PS Now to PS Plus Premium. I can’t remember, tbh. But there’s a current PC client available for download.
You can also stream to generic PC/Android handhelds, which makes the PS Portal kind of unnecessary if you already have another device.
I rescind all snark then. 
That makes sense. I genuinely wonder how many people are aware though. I’ve seen discussion even among Sony fans and people seem to think that you need the Portal hardware…
Small correction - for cloud gaming you might need to stream via the console to Android. But you can definitely “remote play” from console to other devices. (I haven’t tried any of this myself, though.)
PC handhelds are PCs… so cloud gaming should work via the PC app.
Okay… Yeah I was starting to get confused because I did a little googling and I can only find information on using Remote Play to stream your local PS5 to another screen. Which to me is not the same thing as cloud gaming. I thought that once upon a time they had a PC app to play PS3 games from actual cloud servers. But for PS5 the only documentation I can find online is for streaming the screen of your own local PS5. Not from a cloud server. You can now do that with the Portal but still not to a PC or phone app, as far as I can tell.
So snark un-rescinded again 
because just streaming from your own local PS5 hardware is not what I’m talking about.
Cloud gaming should work on PC via the dedicated app: How to access PlayStation Plus on PC (US)
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Amazon finally shipped the copy of Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut that I bought on sale, that was delayed for weeks for some random reason. I’m ready to eat some crow for all the times I thought that the game looked like an unremarkable Assassin’s Creed knockoff. 
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Played Marvel Tokon Closed Beta today. Game is pretty awesome. 
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