Vodafone Concept has launched Cloud Play, a cloud gaming service for cellular platforms, promising premium cellular video games like Asphalt 9, Fashionable Fight 5, Shadow Combat, and extra. The service, launched in partnership with Paris-based cloud gaming agency CareGame, will likely be subscription based mostly, with costs beginning at Rs. 100 per thirty days. Cloud Play will likely be out there on each iOS and Android units and will be accessed through the Vi app or web site.
Cloud Play service will provide triple-A cellular video games throughout motion, journey, arcade, racing, sports activities and technique genres, Vi mentioned in a press launch. The telecom operator confirmed that its launch catalogue will embrace titles like Asphalt 9, Fashionable Fight 5, Shadow Combat, Storm Blades, Riptide, Seashore Buggy Racing, and Gravity Rider. Basic titles like Reduce the Rope, Subway Surfers, and Jetpack Joyride will likely be out there, too.
Extra video games will likely be added to the service within the coming weeks, the corporate mentioned. Cloud Play subscription begins at Rs. 100 per thirty days, or Rs. 104 recharge for pre-paid customers. Cloud Play, nonetheless, will likely be free to check out initially. Vi confirmed a “Strive n Purchase” mannequin for the service, which will likely be accessible without charge for the free trial interval. Whereas the telecom operator didn’t specify the length of the trial interval, customers will finally need to subscribe to play the video games.
Cloud Play works like every other cloud-based video games subscription mannequin akin to Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia’s GeForce Now, and JioGamesCloud. As soon as subscribed, customers can entry the library of video games instantly with out the necessity to obtain the titles. Cloud gaming does, nonetheless, require a quick and steady web connection. With cloud gaming, one wouldn’t want a high-end gadget to run graphically intensive video games.
“Cloud Play will allow all players in India to get pleasure from true AAA cellular gaming with out having to spend money on a brand new cell phone or a gamepad, because of the mix of CareGame know-how, iconic cellular titles from our publishing companions, and Vi networks,” Philippe Wang, Co-founder and CEO of CareGame, mentioned on the launch of the service.
Cloud Play will be accessed through each Vi Net and app platforms.
Reliance Jio, too, provides its personal cloud gaming service, JioGamesCloud, in India. Whereas Vi’s new service caters to cellular players, Jio’s cloud gaming service additionally provides PC video games. The service is presently out there to customers in beta. JioGamesCloud provides PC video games like Kingdom Come Deliverance, Lords of the Fallen, Blasmephous and extra.
