Xbox Cloud Gaming hourly usage increased by 1800% in the past year
A recap in the cloud.
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Xbox Cloud Gaming usage surges 1800% in the past year, with a tease of more free-to-play games possibly on the way.
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I felt really meh about using XBox Cloud Gaming when trying it from my iPhone or IPad which forces you to use Safari. But using it on the Steam Deck has been a revelation. It's a great experience!
Depends where I am in Australia. 5G is great, 4G is acceptable for most games but not twitchy shooters etc. wifi seems to be the spottiest for me but our cellular data is leagues above home wifi so that tracks
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While latency was acceptable for As Dusk Falls, I couldn't have played a game like Fortnite that way. But possibly they do some kind of traffic balancing to favor games that require lower latency?
Person 1: __________ cloud gaming service sucks for me!
Person 2: Well, __________ cloud gaming service works great for me though.
Repeat ad nauseum in these threads. Can we all just agree it's different from person to person, it's getting old at this point.
I had the exact same experience. Something about iOS devices doesn't play well at all with streaming. I was ready to write off xcloud after my first experiences, then tried it on my deck and was amazed.
I'm a statistic lol. I went from not suing it to buying a Razer Kishi and playing FH5 and Minecraft Dungeons every lunch breaks in the last months. It's a great service I think.
Depends on how it's being launched and where it's being delivered from. I wasn't working too well on my old phone, but on my newish phone (Pixel 5) its sublime.
I was playing on my phone in hospital last year, was actually a great way to play RPGs, turn based games and so on.
If you haven't tried it for a while, I really encourage you to try it again 😊 the team has pulled out all the stops being hyper-focused on stream quality and reliability for the last 6+ months and it's made a huge difference on every platform, from Windows to MacOS, from Android to iOS, and especially via browser at xbox.com/play
Just last week, the team rolled out some really noticeable improvements specifically for Windows:
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Just last week, the team rolled out some really noticeable improvements specifically for Windows:
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Gotta love these openers in the Microsoft threads....smh.
I don't own an xbox only a ps5 and a switch so any time there's a game pass game I want to play I do it on the cloud. Originally I wasn't too impressed and now it's pretty damn good. A bit temperamental depending on the genre it almost seems like but for single player offline games it has been really great.
If it can just nail consistency it will be fantastic but like I said, sometimes temperamental. This is on safari on a Mac though I tried Edge as well and it was similar to me despite it supposedly being better tuned there.
If it can just nail consistency it will be fantastic but like I said, sometimes temperamental. This is on safari on a Mac though I tried Edge as well and it was similar to me despite it supposedly being better tuned there.
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If you haven't tried it for a while, I really encourage you to try it again 😊 the team has pulled out all the stops being hyper-focused on stream quality and reliability for the last 6+ months and it's made a huge difference on every platform, from Windows to MacOS, from Android to iOS, and especially via browser at xbox.com/play
Just last week, the team rolled out some really noticeable improvements specifically for Windows:
Reddit - Dive into anything
Pretty sure i'm going to try it on Halo 5 once i can get some bucks to purchase an year of Ultimate :)
I still have a ton of issues with image quality, but the input stuff is insane (for me). It feels like i'm playing locally on the browser.
I don't know if that's a topic Xbox team has been talking about, but does Xbox/Microsoft has a study regarding the energy and environment cost of streaming for video game?
Genuine question as I've always been curious about this topic to know if it does harm more or less than video streaming, regarding how much it could demand to run and then stream a game on any given device?
Thank you if you happen to have something for me to look forward! 🙏
If you haven't tried it for a while, I really encourage you to try it again 😊 the team has pulled out all the stops being hyper-focused on stream quality and reliability for the last 6+ months and it's made a huge difference on every platform, from Windows to MacOS, from Android to iOS, and especially via browser at xbox.com/play
Just last week, the team rolled out some really noticeable improvements specifically for Windows:
Reddit - Dive into anything
I haven't used it much, but shout out to the team - I tried xCloud on my steam deck when I first got it, and I was seriously impressed at how smooth it was.
I'm no expert in the field, but there was a blog post about this earlier in the year:
An Update on Xbox Sustainability Efforts - Xbox Wire
Carbon negative, water positive and zero waste by 2030, sustainability updates to our Xbox Series X|S consoles, empowering players with energy saver mode, and more At Microsoft – and, by extension, at Xbox – we’ve set ambitious commitments to meaningfully reduce the company’s environmental...
news.xbox.com
So:
1. As Azure datacenters get more efficient, so does cloud gaming
2. You need to produce a whole lot less hardware to reach far more players
It works ridiculously well for me. I basically can't tell the difference between local and streaming.
Awesome to hear!
I know a lot of people say that the Steam Deck has been their best experience with Xbox Cloud Gaming, and maybe that is still the case today. But a lot of improvements rolled out everywhere right around the same time that support rolled out for Steam Deck. So it could also be a coincidence, and maybe your experience will be better everywhere and not just great on Steam Deck!
Cloud gaming is *GREAT* for launching a game just to quickly try it, to see if you might like it. I did that for this Peppa Pig game, something I wouldn't otherwise spend time downloading, launching, and then deleting, but I wanted to see if it's something my daughter might like. It wasn't, but it was much better to try the game with streaming first, rather than waiting.
Same, running off my ipad was not a great experience. But shocked how good it is on a rinky dink little laptop I had laying around.
I would love the option to choose a higher resolution on the deck. Another idea I have had is to somehow being the Rewards app and Gamepass quests to cloud. Some days, I only turn on the Series X to collect points lol.
Thanks to you and your team for all the great work.
Try it again and find out fam. We are all in different locations with different types of internet service so asking this question is not going to help.
It's works damn good for me. California, Sac area.
Probably a lot of CO2 "savings" from not needing to ship it all over the country/delivery. Though that may be moot given things are always in transit idk lolI'm no expert in the field, but there was a blog post about this earlier in the year:
An Update on Xbox Sustainability Efforts - Xbox Wire
Carbon negative, water positive and zero waste by 2030, sustainability updates to our Xbox Series X|S consoles, empowering players with energy saver mode, and more At Microsoft – and, by extension, at Xbox – we’ve set ambitious commitments to meaningfully reduce the company’s environmental...
So:
1. As Azure datacenters get more efficient, so does cloud gaming
2. You need to produce a whole lot less hardware to reach far more players
I just really want them to support Smart TVs. I have a Sony Google TV in my bedroom that would be perfect for Cloud Streaming, but they don't have a smart TV app yet :/
Thats mostly just iOS devices in general. Apple really cripples WebKit for iOS so it can't become a competitor to the appstore
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If you haven't tried it for a while, I really encourage you to try it again 😊 the team has pulled out all the stops being hyper-focused on stream quality and reliability for the last 6+ months and it's made a huge difference on every platform, from Windows to MacOS, from Android to iOS, and especially via browser at xbox.com/play
Just last week, the team rolled out some really noticeable improvements specifically for Windows:
Reddit - Dive into anything
I have to shout out this service, in Argentina it works stupidly well, me and my friends were dumbstruck to see it working this well. So if it works really well in my country where the infrastructure sucks, it will for sure work really well for all of you out there.
If you haven't tried it for a while, I really encourage you to try it again 😊 the team has pulled out all the stops being hyper-focused on stream quality and reliability for the last 6+ months and it's made a huge difference on every platform, from Windows to MacOS, from Android to iOS, and especially via browser at xbox.com/play
Just last week, the team rolled out some really noticeable improvements specifically for Windows:
Reddit - Dive into anything
howdy! i realize this may be a different team than "cloud" but i would really, really love the ability to manually set a quality level/bit rate for in-home streaming from my xbox to another device. I hard wired my entire home for gigabit ethernet specifically to stream to any screen from any device…and the visual quality from a Series X is by far the worst of all my devices. It's like the bit rate is locked at 10mbps, despite my network being easily capable of 60+. There's just a ton of pixelation and macro blocking whenever there's motion. anyway, thank you for posting here!
I'm farwaray from Brazil's datacenters (Fortaleza) but I can play 90% of time. I have some strange behavior where it plays really nice but like a clock it disconnects each 30 minutes. It was way worse though. It's playable but it is strange how it runs amazing and sundelly disconnects.
what are the best games to play on deck like this?
The 15mbps stream bitrate cap and no M/KB support are the big things holding it back. If they decide to charge extra for that when it leaves beta instead of rolling it into Ultimate for one price I wonder how the service will fair against the comeptition.
I'm pretty sure it entirely depends on location.
I'm in Brooklyn on Spectrum, and it was absolutely awful until about 3 months ago for me. Now it is just kind of OK. Still too much latency for FPS games, but I can play RPGs and strategy games with it now somewhat.
Playing Halo is out of the question for me, but others say it plays great for them. I assume they are just closer to a server.
If you haven't tried it for a while, I really encourage you to try it again 😊 the team has pulled out all the stops being hyper-focused on stream quality and reliability for the last 6+ months and it's made a huge difference on every platform, from Windows to MacOS, from Android to iOS, and especially via browser at xbox.com/play
Just last week, the team rolled out some really noticeable improvements specifically for Windows:
Reddit - Dive into anything
Does this improve the streaming in the Xbox app at all? Does this make streaming in browsers on desktop better than streaming in the xbox app?
There have been improvements across the board, but the most noticeable may be in the browser for some people. Your mileage may vary.
Definitely can tell there is an improvement. Playing Outriders from the cloud on my Note20 Ultra feels like when I do remote play on my local console over my Wi-Fi. Can't tell the difference.If you haven't tried it for a while, I really encourage you to try it again 😊 the team has pulled out all the stops being hyper-focused on stream quality and reliability for the last 6+ months and it's made a huge difference on every platform, from Windows to MacOS, from Android to iOS, and especially via browser at xbox.com/play
Just last week, the team rolled out some really noticeable improvements specifically for Windows:
Reddit - Dive into anything
Cloud works better in that it has sound. Remote Play has just repeating noises for sound -.-
My internet has recently become highly unstable at home (nothing to do with xCloud), which has really curtailed my usage of streaming. And I do miss it. Being able to just launch a game and see how it plays is awesome. And typically, I never install the game even if I'm playing to completion, unless my internet is very unreliable or there are issues with the game (I've noticed fewer of these lately, but may also be the type of games that I'm playing).
I wanted to try Stellaris. 20 minutes in there's a weird image artifact, it was just for a split of a second and I was like "Shit I totally forgot I was playing on the cloud". It's that good 👍
Of course it will never be as responsive as local hardware but it's pretty impressive getting into a game in a very short time without having to download the game. Perfect compliment to a subscription service to try out new games. I can see why it's growing quickly.
There was similar disconnection with GFN free tier in Brazil.
In europe, it was 1 hour game session but due to the high demand they reduced to 30 minutes in Brazil.
I wonder if it's still the case...
Any news on more region support? India?If you haven't tried it for a while, I really encourage you to try it again 😊 the team has pulled out all the stops being hyper-focused on stream quality and reliability for the last 6+ months and it's made a huge difference on every platform, from Windows to MacOS, from Android to iOS, and especially via browser at xbox.com/play
Just last week, the team rolled out some really noticeable improvements specifically for Windows:
Reddit - Dive into anything