Project xCloud - Microsoft wants you to not own any games

Unless all the XSXs just go into the data centers and that’s how you get your XSX availability. Which, given the whole point is to share the hardware across users, is not even the worst idea.

(Please everyone jump in now and say again how you don’t have decent broadband where you live.)

I thought they were moving to XB1X blades rather than a full-blown Series X.

Not from what I recall reading no.

I tried the PC Beta with the Edge browser on my PC. Forza Horizon 4.

The gameplay is fairly forgiving in an arcade racer, so it controlled just fine, but every few seconds there’s an audio glitch in the in-game radio station’s music, and an accompanying visual glitch somewhere. Plus this is obviously the Xbox One version of the game, since you can tell it’s 30 fps, not 60 like the Series X version.

So, kind of impressive, but also kind of shitty. I can deal with the occasional visual artifact, but audio glitches just create a really bad impression. They need to maybe stream the in-game radio station separately, and create an audio buffer for it maybe? The music is not going to change unlike the visuals and the gameplay. But maybe that’s too game specific?

I’m in playing on an iPad Pro with an elite 2 controller. Super janky and laggy with serious sound stuttering. Am somehow restricted from playing the casino including the freee daily wheel spin in GTA5.

Pass for now. Let me know when they defeat the laws of physics

Looks like xCloud has now been upgraded

I really hope this upgrade fixes all the little stutters. I don’t really mind lower resolution, but the constant skipping is bothersome enough that I haven’t even really messed too much with xCloud.

Nope. At least not for me. Stadia’s test phase was a helluva lot more impressive than this.

Since it hasn’t been remarked on too much, I’ll just take the opportunity to point out that if, for instance, you opted for Game Pass Ultimate with the various conversion options that were available but did not actually own an Xbox console, this allows you the opportunity to play some Xbox games on GPU through your browser. Like Outriders, for example.

Assumedly you have a gaming PC if you do that, but the XSX stream may offer superior image quality and performance if your PC is a potato.

Or you have a gaming PC but just didn’t, you know, buy Outriders.

Basically, this just added a lot of value for GPU even to PC gamers who don’t own an Xbox. They’ve added the ability to play a bunch of 360 games too that weren’t available on PC, like the entire Gears of War series. They rotate original Xbox games through too, though looks like just Psychonauts and Morrowind at the moment, which are available elsewhere of course.

I played for a few minutes. It didn’t feel too bad. One or two hitches, but for the most part was pretty smooth while my daughter is watching netflix in the other room.

I played about an hour each of Dishonored 2 and Dark Alliance last night, and the hitching is much improved from even a couple of weeks ago. No hardware changes on my end.

But you don’t need to buy Outriders if you have game pass!

Are the gears games really not on PC? I had no idea.

You do if you’re on PC…

That’s what I just said! Now people who have GPU and no console can play Outriders at no additional cost.

Ahhhh it’s only on game pass for consoles. Sorry, I missed that.