For those over on PlayStation Now, the monthly subscription service continues to improve as Sony Interactive Entertainment rolls out new features for the service. Most recently, the PlayStation company welcomed a 1080p option for the program to stream titles at a higher resolution via PlayStation Now. And of course, the game continues to roll out.
This month, it was announced that a new initiative with Square Enix is to deliver a new Final Fantasy game to the service each month from September until January. With a total of five titles, the service and what it offers continues to grow. And that is not including the monthly addition of games which includes Killing Floor 2, Tekken 7, and Moonlighter.
From a new discovery over on PatentScope, Sony Interactive Entertainment filed a new patent which appears to be in efforts to work in support for PlayStation Now to offer PlayStation 5 games. This is determined by the mentions for the feature to access NVME and SSD drives to perform the feature.
Non-volatile memory over fabric (NVMe-oF) is used to stream video, computer games, and the like to client devices from network storage embodied by solid state storage devices (SSDs). To provide for redundancy, multiple copies of a single piece of content, e.g., a computer game or video file, are stored on multiple SSDs.
To provide information to address the block-level storage based on a client demand for the content, a data structure correlates each content with the SSDs and related block numbers at which the content is stored. Sourcing of the content as it is being streamed may be dynamically switched between SSDs to provide for load balancing or loss of a SSD.
Although Xbox Game Pass already offers the feature for next-generation titles, Sony Interactive Entertainment evidently did not provide the mechanic for its service since launch. However, it is suggested that the firm is looking to offer the feature previously. In a prior financial report, corporate Sony told that it is search for ways to incorporate both Horizon Forbidden West & Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales to PlayStation Now.
While game streaming is out on PlayStation, the feature has not been effectively established on Xbox just yet. But, Microsoft plans to deliver xCloud support for Xbox One & Xbox Series models later this fall. The tool will go on to enable the support for Xbox Series X|S exclusives on older hardware, Microsoft notes. You can read the full report by heading here.
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