PlayStation has announced Cloud Streaming, the ability to play PS5 games streamed from the cloud, for PS Plus Premium subscribers.
This allows players to play supported PS5 digital games from the Game Catalog, Game Trials and their own PS5 game library via streaming, relying only on live internet connection.
Cloud Streaming supports 720p, 1080, 1440p and 4K resolutions, at up to 60 fps, with the option for HDR.
Game Streaming requires at least 5Mbps internet connection bandwidth for 720p, 15Mbps for 1080p and more than 38Mbps for 4K.
Cloud Streaming will launch first in Japan on October 17, then in Europe on October 23, with North America getting it on October 30.
This service requires PS Plus Premium to be available in your region, which not all region with PlayStation support has. Malaysia and all of Southeast Asia countries, which has PS Plus Deluxe instead for its top tier of PS Plus subscription, won’t have any support for game streaming.
PlayStation previously support game streaming for PS3 (as a way to have playable PS3 games on PS4 and PS5 despite them not being backwards compatible). This should put PlayStation in line with Xbox as both platforms now offer similar levels of game streaming services. If only Google’s Stadia would have stuck around longer.
In Malaysia, the only platform to offer any kind of game streaming is GeForce Now, available via mobile network provider Yes.