The goal of Project xCloud is to get Xbox games - including its own exclusives - running on more devices, and Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to make that happen: via an app, xCloud will let you run games hosted on that great Xbox in the sky on your mobile device or to do the same thing for games hosted on your own local Xbox console.
Claudia Cruz/CNET Microsoft Project xCloud and Xbox Game Pass for PCĪt E3 2019, Microsoft divulged some high-level details about its forthcoming, Xbox-based cloud-gaming service, slated to go into a public preview launch in October. Project xCloud running Forza Horizon 4 on a phone. If a game you're playing disappears from "the vault" and the platforms aren't smart, you can lose progress, power-ups, important customizations like keybindings and so on. That's because essential gaming features - cloud saves, in-game communication and play capture, to name a few - make it fundamentally different from most traditional streaming services.Īs does the need for persistence when your favorite movie is pulled from Netflix (or other movie-streaming service) because copyright-based monetization strategies demand it, you can shrug. More more apt comparisons are to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. What do we mean when we talk about cloud gaming or game streaming? In cloud gaming, processing occurs on a remote server that "streams" the rendered frames to your local device, which sends back commands based on your in-game activity.Īnd if there's an all-you-can-play subscription or streaming component, there are inevitable superficial analogies to Netflix or just slightly more accurately, Apple Arcade.
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