Microsoft has also added new APIs to the Xbox SDK to make it easier to develop games intended for streaming.
More at the link: https://stevivor.com/news/xcloud-exclusive-games/
So this seems to have been announced back at XO (though the article was posted today) but I haven't seen a thread about this. Figured the prospect of games exclusive to xCloud was interesting enough to warrant its own discussion. What do you make of this? Something worth getting excited about? Lamenting the loss of "traditional games" to another cloud service? Sound off.
Microsoft is "in talks" with first- and third-party studios to create and release Project xCloud exclusive games.
Microsoft's Kareem Choudhry made the confirmation at X019 in London as part of a group interview with Australian outlets, stressing that there weren't any title-specific announcements to make at this time.
"In terms of [Project xCloud] exclusives, we're in early talks with first- and third- parties, but we don't have any announcements to share," Choudhry asserted. "New content and IP takes eighteen months to two years [to develop]."
Choudry stressed that "the first thing that we're doing is… just lifting and shifting content that doesn't require any development changes into the cloud. So right away we've got a platform that can run any of the 3000 games you can run on Xbox today."
That said, Choudhry said that specific APIs have been added to the Xbox SDK to let a game "know at runtime [if it is] being streamed or not."
More at the link: https://stevivor.com/news/xcloud-exclusive-games/
So this seems to have been announced back at XO (though the article was posted today) but I haven't seen a thread about this. Figured the prospect of games exclusive to xCloud was interesting enough to warrant its own discussion. What do you make of this? Something worth getting excited about? Lamenting the loss of "traditional games" to another cloud service? Sound off.