PS5 cloud streaming is coming soon—and fans are mostly concerned about Portal
The new cloud streaming feature for the PlayStation 5 will launch this month for PlayStation Plus Premium members, Sony announced today.
The feature will allow PlayStation 5 users (with Plus Premium members getting the first crack at it) to stream supported digital games from the Playstation catalog and game trials, as well as any supported PS5 games in the catalog that subscribers already own.
According to a PlayStation blog post by senior vice president of platform experience Hideaki Nishino, certain big games will be available to stream when this feature launches and Sony plans to add “hundreds of PS5 titles to support this new benefit.” Some of the games subscribers will get to stream off the bat include Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon Forbidden West, Ghost of Tsushima, Mortal Kombat 11, and Saints Row IV. Plus members will also be able to check out game trials for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and The Calisto Protocol.
The fan reaction to this announcement was surprisingly less focused on the feature itself, or at least on the PlayStation 5 version of it. In the replies to the PlayStation account’s tweet announcement, dozens of people are asking variants of the same question: Will it work with PlayStation Portal?