PlayStation For Mobile Devices: A secret document that was found during the Epic vs Apple case shows that Apple knew about Sony’s plans to bring PlayStation Now cloud gaming to mobile phones and tablets.
In a few days, new information came out that confirmed the talks Microsoft had with Apple about bringing Xbox games to the iOS App Store. This new information also shows that Sony had the same plans and wanted to bring the PlayStation Now platform to iOS and Android phones and tablets, as well.
The document in question was written in 2017, which was when Apple was planning to start a subscription-based gaming service called Apple Arcade. This is when the document was written. As we already know, the Apple Arcade platform wouldn’t be released for another two years. Sony had also made changes to its PlayStation Now service during that time, though. 2017 was a good year for PlayStation Now. Sony made it available on the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation Vita, the PlayStation TV, and some Smart TVs and Blu-ray players.
It was not long after that document was written that the Japanese company decided to remove the service from all of those devices and only offer it on the PlayStation 4 and on PCs now.
So, as we now know, Sony’s big plans to spread the PlayStation Now platform to mobile devices around the world didn’t work out at all.
With that said, it looks like those plans aren’t dead in the water, which is good news for gamers. “Spartacus” is said to be an internal project by the Japanese company. It’s said that it will likely combine the cloud gaming service with a PlayStation Plus subscription, with the goal of bringing PlayStation 1 games to mobile devices at first.
When all is said and done, the goal would be to have PlayStation 5 games on the service, too. As a result, people who own phones like the iPhone, iPad, and even Android phones could play some of the PS5’s most powerful and popular games right on their phones and tablets.