Response to your PR piece? You sound like a mouthpiece for Sony, not a gamer.
In your mind it’s already a Cloud streaming device and Sony supposedly raised the price of Plus to cover a future feature that in your mind already exists.
Pretty sure it was you blowing off Nvidia’s GeForce cloud platform, when it was announced that Game Pass could be used on it. Apparently you saw no point in a PC streaming subscription where you don’t even need a PC to play your PC games, but you’re singing a totally different tune when it comes to Papa Sony doing it.
As a gamer I canceled PS+ though I have a stacked membership for another year or two. And have no interest in buying the portal.
There is an interview where sony already says they're looking into testing the Portal with Cloud gaming and it is an obvious future state. I think they raised the price because they want to make sure that they get more money from people who aren't buying a physical console.
If you look back at the thread, I said I tested GFN and actually think it is quite good. I still don't see anyone subscribing to both at the same time for an extended amount of time and there is also no dedicated hardware for this, except for maybe the nvidia shield.
Reading is your friend. I think for some reason people find reading really difficult these days and come to their own conclusions without having read what anyone actually wrote.
And despite the technology around GFN, the library is trash, which is what I think they're trying to correct for with GamePass, but again no one is paying the combined subscription cost.
20 dollars a month for GFN + 10 dollars a month for GamePass PC = 30 dollars a month vs PS+ Premium which is 18 dollars a month...