{"id":132272,"date":"2021-12-12T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/sony-reportedly-planned-to-bring-playstation-now-to-phones"},"modified":"2021-12-12T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T19:22:40","slug":"sony-reportedly-planned-to-bring-playstation-now-to-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/sony-reportedly-planned-to-bring-playstation-now-to-phones","title":{"rendered":"Sony reportedly planned to bring PlayStation Now to phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sony-reportedly-planned-to-bring-playstation-now-to-phones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft wasn\u2019t the only big console maker hoping to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-xbox-games-ios-app-store-105431324.html\">bring its games to phones<\/a>. <em>The Verge<\/em> said it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22828526\/sony-playstation-ps-now-cloud-gaming-mobile-apple-epic\" target=\"_blank\">obtained<\/a> a document from Epic Games\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apple-app-store-payment-changes-delay-epic-games-201026068.html\">lawsuit against Apple<\/a> indicating the iPhone maker had learned Sony was planning a \u201cmobile extension\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/sony-playstation-now-1080p-support-174539360.html\">PlayStation Now<\/a> in 2017. The service would stream over 450 PS3 games at first, and follow up with PS4 titles.<\/p>\n<p>Apple mentioned the PlayStation Now expansion as it was in the early stages of developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/best-apple-arcade-games-140053796.html\">Apple Arcade<\/a>, its answer to Sony\u2019s service as well as Xbox Game Pass. While Arcade didn\u2019t launch until 2019 and still doesn\u2019t include streaming, Apple saw PlayStation Now as indicative of a broader shift toward gaming subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Provided Apple\u2019s scoop was accurate, it\u2019s unclear why Sony still isn\u2019t streaming games to smartphone owners. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/sony-playstation-xbox-game-pass-subscription-sparatcus-175650996.html\">hybrid of PlayStation Now and PlayStation Plus<\/a> is reportedly due in spring 2022, but the relevant rumor didn\u2019t make mention of mobile access. Sony has already declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft wasn\u2019t the only big console maker hoping to bring its games to phones. The Verge said it has obtained a document from Epic Games\u2019 lawsuit against Apple indicating the iPhone maker had learned Sony was planning a \u201cmobile extension\u201d of PlayStation Now in 2017. The service would stream over 450 PS3 games at first, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}