{"id":9961,"date":"2014-01-09T00:53:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T00:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jan\/09\/sonys-move-cloud-gaming-goes-gear-playstation-now\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T00:53:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T00:53:06","slug":"sonys-move-to-cloud-gaming-goes-up-a-gear-with-playstation-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/sonys-move-to-cloud-gaming-goes-up-a-gear-with-playstation-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s move to cloud gaming goes up a gear with PlayStation Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has announced PlayStation Now, a service which allows gamers to stream a variety of PlayStation titles across a range of devices without a console in sight.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at CES, with games from Sony&rsquo;s previous three consoles being utilised and the service available on the PS4, the PS Vita, as well as Sony&rsquo;s Bravia TV sets.<\/p>\n<p>The technology for PlayStation Now came from Gaikai, a company which streams high-end video games. Gaikai was bought by Sony in July 2012 for $380m, a clear sign of its cloud-based future.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say the user experience has been completely seamless, however. The Verge reported &ldquo;a slightly perceptible lag between button presses and the corresponding action onscreen&rdquo;, yet added that &ldquo;you&rsquo;ll never think of gaming the same way again&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly Sid Shuman, social media manager at Sony Computer Entertainment America, admitted that &ldquo;pixel counters and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has announced PlayStation Now, a service which allows gamers to stream a variety of PlayStation titles across a range of devices without a console in sight.<br \/>\nThe announcement was made at CES, with games from Sony&rsquo;s previous three consoles bei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}