How Sony bought, and squandered, the future of cloud gaming
Sony’s PlayStation Now was supposed to deliver the cloud gaming future after the company spent hundreds of millions of dollars purchasing pioneers Gaikai and OnLive and delivering a service to smart TVs, Blu-ray players, and the PlayStation Vita handheld. Instead, it’s stayed stagnant until just this October, and Sony is now facing down Google Stadia, Microsoft xCloud, and more instead of being a leader. Here’s why.