The Japanese company has spent years working to create all the necessary infrastructure to be able to provide PS5 gaming experience in the clouda very ambitious and complicated idea that is known by the name of Project Cronus and that we could already know a little better thanks to the recent leak that I am going to explain below.

Offering the PS5 experience through cloud gaming has always been an important project for Sony, as it ultimately emerges as a service that can help you compete in a growing industryand because it allows you to diversify one of your most important business units today in terms of revenue.

However, an important nuance to make is that this cloud gaming service is not aimed at those people who do not want to buy a PS5, but want to play specific titles at specific times, since it will be possible to access it from other devices, It can only be used from the PS5 console.

I know it sounds weird, but there is an explanation, and that is that with this cloud gaming service, Sony wants increase the value offered by a PS Plus Premium subscription. With said subscription and this new cloud gaming service, the user will have access to the entire catalog of available games and play them directly in the cloud, that is, they would not have to download them to their console and the experience would be “similar” to what we would play locally.

The fact is that moving your PS5 gaming experience to the cloud is a bit easier said than done, for one very obvious reason, weight and SSD performance of said console and its dedicated I/O (input-output) interface chips. As many of our readers know, the PS5’s storage drive can reach 5.5GB/s of sequential read speeds, and this meant that the Japanese company couldn’t bring Project Cronus to life by simply resorting to existing technology at the time of its release.

Sony had no choice but to create its own storage solution on Project Cronus servers known as Kira, which is based on the PCIe standard and is capable of read speeds of up to up to 5 GB/s with sub-millisecond latency. Sony theoretically has a total of 28 data centers ready to launch the first deployment of this PS5 cloud gaming service.

His debut will take place sometime in fiscal year 2023, which means that Project Cronus should be available by March 2024 at the latest. We’ll see if Sony can really offer a good experience with this cloud service, although it would be really interesting if they decide to expand it to other devices. I don’t think this will happen in the short or medium term as it could negatively affect PS5 sales and that is something Sony is not willing to accept.