Sony planned PlayStation Now gaming service for the iPhone & Android

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A series of internal documents reveal that Sony had planned to bring its PlayStation Now service to mobile devices -- and Apple had insider knowledge of the plan.

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Sony's PlayStation Now service is a cloud gaming subscription service that allows members to stream PlayStation 2, Playstation 3, and PlayStation 4 on select devices.

The service used to stream to Smart TVs, Blu-ray players, the PlayStation 3, and the PS Vita, but in late 2017, Sony dropped support for all but the PlayStation 4 and Windows PCs. Since then, it has added a PlayStation 5 client.

However, in 2017, Sony had planned on launching on one additional platform -- mobile phones. According to a confidential document seen by The Verge, Apple knew that Sony had been looking to make the move to mobile cloud-enabled gaming.

The document, labeled "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL -- ATTORNEY'S EYES ONLY," states that Apple had heard of a "[not-yet-announced] mobile extension of an existing streaming service for PlayStation users, streaming access to over 450+ PS3 games to start, with PS4 games to follow."

When the PlayStation Now launched in July 2017, Sony's presentation noted that the service would be "only PS3 games right now," which would suggest that Apple had received insider information about Sony's plans.

As The Verge points out, this would have been happening at the same time that Apple has been working on Apple Arcade. Another document shows that Apple had been planning to create its own games subscription service, with "100+ [games] at launch," and "10 new [games] per month."

Sony has never brought PlayStation Now to Apple devices, nor any other mobile platform. For now, the company seems to be focused on selling consoles and allowing users access to catalogs of now-legacy titles for older consoles.

On December 9, it was learned that Microsoft had offered to bring triple-A titles to the iPhone if Apple would allow its games subscription service streaming app xCloud to be hosted on the App Store.

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    leavingthebiggleavingthebigg Posts: 1,291member
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    evolutevolut Posts: 29member
    leavingthebigg said:
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    lkrupplkrupp Posts: 10,557member
    evolut said:
    leavingthebigg said:
    A quick Duck Duck Go search revealed this AppleInsider article…. https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/221076
    :)  Kudos to you for not saying “I googled…”  :)
    Duck duck go is also my choice!

    I’m so tired of people asking me to “google something”, as if it were the only option!

    Personally, I prefer to say generically “do a web search”, which is exactly what it is, no need to give a free ad to the fake “don’t do evil”.  :/
    Yeah, well, ‘googling, googled’ entered the lexicon more than a decade ago. 99.9% of the world’s population uses Google search to find things. Deal with it.
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    uraharaurahara Posts: 733member
    lkrupp said:
    evolut said:
    leavingthebigg said:
    A quick Duck Duck Go search revealed this AppleInsider article…. https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/221076
    :)  Kudos to you for not saying “I googled…”  :)
    Duck duck go is also my choice!

    I’m so tired of people asking me to “google something”, as if it were the only option!

    Personally, I prefer to say generically “do a web search”, which is exactly what it is, no need to give a free ad to the fake “don’t do evil”.  :/
    Yeah, well, ‘googling, googled’ entered the lexicon more than a decade ago. 99.9% of the world’s population uses Google search to find things. Deal with it.
    Entered lexicon in Western counties, though. 

    And as such it is far less than 99,9%of the world’s population. E.g. Asian countries like China and India have their own search engines. The same in the post Soviet Union countries, so far as I know from
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    And even in the US nearly 1 out of 4 households do not have access to internet. You can imagine what is the situation in the poorer countries, where many people didn’t even hear about internet. 

    So I could have asked you what is the source of your 99,9% statistics. But I know - your butt is the source. 
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