It also began adding “blockbuster” games each month, which are available for a limited time. Sony slashed PlayStation Now prices in October 2019 in a bid to be more competitive with rival streaming services. PlayStation Now’s software library includes over 700 PS2, PS3 and PS4 games streamable to PS5, PS4 or PC, and over 300 PS4 titles which can be downloaded and played on consoles. If Sony is planning a streaming network infrastructure that uses SSDs with similar speeds to that found in the PlayStation 5, then this opens up the possibility that PS5 games could be added to its PlayStation Now streaming service, which currently only offers games from past Sony consoles. The description specifically uses games as an example, and explains how information can be sent to the user from multiple different SSDs to ensure stable performance if an SSD is overloaded or dies. The patent shows how Sony plans to group multiple high-speed NVMe SSDs together and store the same information on them, for the purposes of providing data at high speeds to a client device.
