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The PC side is interesting on the fact that console owners could get access to games they wouldn't be able to play otherwise. Interesting times ahead.
Awesome, I've been using it a lot lately with my Razer Kishi and it's *almost* perfect. Is there any specific info on what the upgrade entails? I know the new blades are Series X internals, but could it help with connection stability? That's my only issue right now honestly, it'll be running perfect and then just take a nosedive for a second or two
My group used to play with someone who needed 24-48 hours notice of what game we were playing so they could download it in time. When we heard about xcloud we all figured that it would come to console really fast and offer a way to play an Xbox game immediately via cloud streaming whilst it installed locally in the background.
Obviously that didn't happen but would love to see that appear sometime in the near future. Would have saved us a lot of time and disappointment in the past.
Obviously that didn't happen but would love to see that appear sometime in the near future. Would have saved us a lot of time and disappointment in the past.
that's actually the big reason I don't use Xcloud that much. With a PC and Series X, it's kinda jarring going back to Xbox One-era hardware. Not even for increased resolution, I just want the 60fps
If it takes someone 48 hours to download a game. I doubt their home internet could handle streaming.
Good times ahead then,
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If a 3G connection is good enough for streaming then I'm sure their home connection would be fine.
You've got to bear in mind that some games are over 100GB and sufficient notice includes padding for other commitments, this was back pre-COVID when folks weren't always at home.
They definitely failed to install Sea of Thieves despite being given a few hours notice, hence moving to a 24-48 hours period so they could get larger games installed too.
From Digital Foundry when they went to Redmond last year to see the XSX:
PC games being streamable in the future is awesome news to me. I hope they can be streamed to either a pc or a console, too, with mouse controls and also gamepad if the game allows it.
I don't think the upgraded blades will come anytime "soon" though, seeing the nextgenstockgate we're living in. Maybe in beta for some chosen ones or something, or just for some games initially.
I don't think the upgraded blades will come anytime "soon" though, seeing the nextgenstockgate we're living in. Maybe in beta for some chosen ones or something, or just for some games initially.
Oh wow, that sounds fantastic! I've been so impressed with what's there already, so any upgrade at all is gonna blow me away
Very excited for PC games. I would love to stream to my Surface tablet, docked, and be able to play CRPGs or RTS games that can't really run well natively on the Surface.
Hell, I would stream majority of PC games even on my PC. That way, MS can deal with MS Store shenanigans! :)
Are you saying the cloud is running Xbox One game versions? I always assumed it will be the same as on my Series X, only lower resolution and with some slight input lag.
That's awesome about PC-specific games being on the service
Theyve said a few times, they'd be upgrading to Series X hardware this year
Theyve said a few times, they'd be upgrading to Series X hardware this year
So far it's only these regions,
Microsoft has confirmed that cloud gaming with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is available in 22 countries around the world.
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Slovakia
- Spain
- South Korea
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
- U.S.A., including Alaska and Puerto Rico (Stadia is not available in Hawaii or Guam)
- U.K.
- Canada
- France
- Italy
- Germany
- Austria
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Denmark
- Norway
- Finland
- Belgium
- Ireland
- Netherlands
- Poland (Stadia controller not available for sale here)
- Portugal (Stadia controller itself not available for sale here)
- Czech Republic (Stadia controller itself not available for sale here)
- Slovakia (Stadia controller itself not available for sale here)
- Romania (Stadia controller itself not available for sale here)
- Hungary (Stadia controller itself not available for sale here)
PlayStation Now is available in Europe (including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), North America (Canada and the United States), as well as Japan
Ha, fair point too! At least they seem to be pretty good about Steam releases these days.
It'll always be a mix for me because I Iive in a certain benighted country full of bandwidth caps, so streaming multiple GB/hour has to be an occasional thing, not my main way of gaming.
It's nice that a big manufacturer is pushing for cross saves. Gotta love Phil
One of the reasons we push for cross save, don't want players to have to decide which version of a Cloud game they play unless they want to. Progress needs to just move with your account, same with community.
One of the reasons we push for cross save, don't want players to have to decide which version of a Cloud game they play unless they want to. Progress needs to just move with your account, same with community.
I hope they continue to optimize in-home streaming as well. On the same network PS5 Remote Play just has far superior image quality than Series X Home Streaming (for me). They look reasonably close when standing still, but in motion there is just a ton of pixel blocking on the Xbox side that I don't see with Remote Play.
Thankfully "for now" I have Verizon Fiber and no caps. So fingers crossed, but yeah, if I had say Comcast, streaming on random game downloading wouldn't have been for me.
It's in Preview in Japan, Brazil, Australia and Mexico also.
Cloud Gaming Heads to Australia, Brazil, Japan, and Mexico November 18 - Xbox Wire
Just over a year ago we kicked off our Project xCloud Preview journey which has empowered the global gaming community to play Xbox console games in all new ways, directly from the cloud. It’s been incredible to see how Project xCloud has continued to evolve with the help and support of our...
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I wish Sony was this transparent with PS Now. Who knows what they are doing? What's in the pipeline? Absolutely no idea.
Sony got a major headstart and are falling behind. Baffling.
Might invest in one of those controllers for your phone for xCloud.
Sony got a major headstart and are falling behind. Baffling.
Might invest in one of those controllers for your phone for xCloud.
The fact that him using perfectly sound logic is seen as a "Jab at the competition". Says more about the backwards nature of the competition than the statement.
Exactly, need to get things in motion because that is the direction they should all be heading towards.
It's in Preview in Japan, Brazil, Australia and Mexico also.
Cloud Gaming Heads to Australia, Brazil, Japan, and Mexico November 18 - Xbox Wire
Just over a year ago we kicked off our Project xCloud Preview journey which has empowered the global gaming community to play Xbox console games in all new ways, directly from the cloud. It’s been incredible to see how Project xCloud has continued to evolve with the help and support of our...
Good to hear. Obviously India and China are the two huge regions they will eventually need to tap into.
I gotta think the FPS Boost that the Series X blades can do will really help games running at higher framerates and delivering a better Xcloud experience. I remember reading a lot of impressions about how 60fps feels a lot better with cloud streaming.
Yep. Higher frame rates inherently reduce input latency, so this should make for an even better cloud streaming experience.
I look forward to trying the upgraded version. xCloud in its current iteration is useless to me (Stuttery in a way that makes in unplayable, quite unlike Stadia's performance). Really hope it improves things.
Hard to tell how much is just puffing up their own company. But, the language is quite big. If they really solved the complicated cross-platform translations with next to no latency, that would be quite the feather in the cap. This tech would already likely be an improvement over even Beam/Mixer's low latency video tech. Interesting.
Agree. Some of those grand strategy paradox games seem ideal for streaming.
Is this MS Flight Simulator?Bring me to this cloud future phil
Looking to be a fast growing and important vertical of their console and backboard business. If the rumours of Nintendo working with Xbox is true, then it must be because of Xcloud stack, they probably want it, and know it's the strongest option.
So the upgrade is to just allow Microsoft to scale out more Xbox One S-class instances?
Oh i have no idea i just typed in cloud gif and picked the nicest looking one.
i got a razer kishi over the weekend and i was messing around with xcloud. i was having trouble getting a stable connection as well, and this is with gigabit internet and a solid ASUS router.
Moonlight streaming over my phone (pc to phone) was flawless and incredible quality. there is a lot more going on with xcloud, but i just couldn't get it to work in a usable manner.
That said, the idea of xcloud is so fucking awesome. Scroll through a list of games and have one boot up in ~1 minute. no hardware to worry about, no downloads. so cool. hopefully with some more time and upgrades to the backend, the service will improve.
Moonlight streaming over my phone (pc to phone) was flawless and incredible quality. there is a lot more going on with xcloud, but i just couldn't get it to work in a usable manner.
That said, the idea of xcloud is so fucking awesome. Scroll through a list of games and have one boot up in ~1 minute. no hardware to worry about, no downloads. so cool. hopefully with some more time and upgrades to the backend, the service will improve.
Those lists show why i consider it a problem, all services have operations only in the us and europe, mostly no asia, no africa, no middle east and no oceania now the only streaming service that is supported in my country is geforce now and its only supported using a 5g plan from one of the internet providers.
Hopefully we get some rapid expansion soon.
Dammit Marty we need more time to get this machine working properly!!!!
