"PlayStation division surprised by Sony's agreement with Microsoft"

Sony and Microsoft announced last week their collaboration on a technology for streaming games. Sony will exploit its current and future game streaming services on Microsoft's Azure servers. Bloomberg reports that this news was a surprise, also for the entire game division of Sony,

. The stock market immediately reacted positively to the decision: Sony's share rose nearly 10% after the announcement, the largest increase in 18 months. with Microsoft about a collaboration. The PlayStation Now game play service still runs on Amazon servers. Negotiations with Amazon, however, failed, after which Sony has tested with its competitor Microsoft, the big game. Google recently announced its own streaming game service Stages. According to the rumor, Amazon would offer a similar service. With such a service, the servers run the games and the consumers no longer have to buy an expensive gaming console at home. Gaming market revenues come from streaming, says market researcher IHS Markit. This means that at least the new generation of new gaming computers always seems to be safe from the threat of new streaming competition. In the long run, Microsoft will probably benefit from Sony, which depends for a third of games and more and more of the cloud.