PlayStation and Xbox have come a long way from the heyday of their rivalry during the seventh generation of consoles. PlayStation has become increasingly more dominant on the hardware front, while Xbox appears to be shifting towards a different business model entirely.
The PlayStation 5 has, at the very least, double the number of sales of the Xbox Series X/S. Xbox's recent shift towards publishing games on the PlayStation 5, such as Sea of Thieves and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, signals a change in direction for the company, as it focuses more on publishing, Game Pass and cloud gaming.
In terms of the latter, Xbox is far more invested in the technology than PlayStation. One of the arguments the Federal Trade Commission raised against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard was that Xbox would become too dominant in cloud gaming with the IPs granted by the acquisition.
In a Fireside Chat with Sony Interactive Entertainment's president and chief executive officer, Hideaki Nishino, he revealed that PlayStation doesn't hold cloud gaming in the same regard.
"The technology is progressing well from a technical standpoint," Nishino says. "But end-to-end network stability is not in our control. The higher cost per playtime...
