These are the latest offerings from PlayStation itself on the PlayStation Portal Cloud Game Streaming Beta. PlayStation has introduced cool game filtering and gameplay capturing, among other minor tweaks to make things less fuzzy within the cloud gaming domain.
What’s the difference? Ah, if only you had been on the Portal beta use, you’d understand what I am saying. It was not much to rave about, just okay. Such small addition of sorting into categories is, however, a tiny but *major* win for every poor soul swimming in a sea of unorganized titles. Well, it would now be possible to track down a game you want to play without the tedious scrolling through a digital junkyard. Oh, and the capturing of gameplay? That’s just a cherry on top. Good luck clipping your best moments, your worst fails, or whatever glitched that made your character look like a melted action figure.
The official PlayStation blog lays it all out, but why isn’t there more hype for this? Maybe because cloud gaming still seems like the weird second cousin to actual console gaming. Or because folks are still bitter about the whole “streaming only” shudders. Either way, it’s growth.
Here comes the crazy part: *zero* replies to this tweet whatsoever, very dead comment section. Did PlayStation accidentally shadowban its own update? Or is the Internet just indifferent toward news of cloud gaming? Whatever it be, it’s quite strange. One would think at least someone would have clamored about something like, “WHERE’S BLOODBORNE 2?” or “FIX YOUR SERVERS!” Nope. Nothing.
Or perhaps they would rather play games than talk about it. Or maybe the Portal beta is such a niche thing that probably only about 12 people actually care about it. But hey, today you are one of those 12 who are fortunate.
So yes, more cool features. But now let’s discuss why, in perception at least, cloud gaming still seems to be stuck back in 2015. Latencies, strange compression artifacts, and, more typically, needing an Internet connection faster than a caffeinated cheetah just to get the thing to work. Now that is what we should really discuss. Who cares, at least we can sort our games now. Baby steps.
If you happen to be in the beta, do check it out. If not, uh, keep waiting, I guess? Or go back to your console like a normal person.
