After rolling out early access for many users over the past few weeks, Xbox has announced its Cloud Gaming service is now available for all Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members on Windows 10 PCs, along with Apple phones and tablets via the browser.
While it's still in a beta format, all members can now head on over to the browser based application on either Microsoft Edge, Chrome, or Safari. As it stands, it's available in 22 countries, so may not be available in your territory as of yet.
We are creating a future that combines the gaming heritage of Xbox and the power of Azure. A future where we bring high fidelity, immersive games to the 3 billion players around the world.
Now we’re taking a big step forward to reaching that vision: Starting today, Xbox Cloud Gaming is available to all Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members with Windows 10 PCs and Apple phones and tablets, via browser, across 22 countries.
If you’re a member or want to become a member, simply go to xbox.com/play on Microsoft Edge, Chrome, or Safari on your PC or mobile device to start playing hundreds of games from the Xbox Game Pass library.
Not only that, but the experience has been "significantly improved". As of today, Xbox Cloud Gaming will be running on Series X hardware - something that many have reported rolling out over the past few weeks, too. It's said to bring "faster load times, improved frame rates, and an experience of a new generation of gaming". To improve latency, games will be streamed at 1080p and run up to 60FPS.
This is a fantastic step and opens up gaming to a wider audience. Now, many will be able to play a variety of experiences on the go, or from the comfort of their own bed via Xbox Cloud Gaming. As mentioned by Xbox, this isn't the end, as it aims to "innovate and add more features to enhance your cloud gaming experience."
Happy to see Xbox Cloud Gaming rolled out to a wider audience? Let us know in the comments below.
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Not available in my region, as usual.
I think that many people will find Game Pass Cloud more useful on laptops, tablets and desktop computers than on mobile phones.
I wonder when this will roll out to Game Pass app on android?
@Snake_V5 xCloud? It’s been on Android. o.O
Cool idea, still works bad! Maybe in the future
👋🙃 bye, Stadia! Nice knowing ya!
*full disclosure, I was a Stadia early adopter. Had a great time with it but with Game Pass's selection...c'mon
@mousieone Yeah the Game Pass app is on Android smartphones. I'm not sure whether it's been upgraded yet though to the Series X blades yet.
I might give this a go at some point on the PC. No need to download a game for a random game session. Have they updated the app for Android then already or is that in the works still?
@Snake_V5 well I don’t see The Medium in the lineup but it does give me the option to play the Series X version of MLB for Android.
anyone else having a rough time with this? My speeds are at 91.1/21.1 and its running like a**
@Asthmalxrd this is the problem with cloud streaming. Some people with great Internet can’t get it work well, while as others with very average internet it works fine.
Therefore imho it isn’t ready for the masses yet as it doesn’t “just work” out of the box.
And it’s different on different services, Stadia works fine for me at home (but has an awful business model I’m just not interested in) whereas Xcloud just doesn’t most of the time.
@Asthmalxrd Same for me. 50 up and down. GeForce streaming works absolutely fine but the XCloud is very pixelated and with really bad latency.
I'm hoping it's just the rollout of SX hardware that's not hit my region yet.
Too late for me now because I've now got a Series X which is sat about a foot away from my PC, that and I seem to live too far away from their servers as the input lag makes every gane virtually unplayable
Just tried it with Psychonauts and started within about 10 secs. Impressive. Keep it up M$
@Asthmalxrd nope I have the same issue, Stadia has worked incredibly well for me in the past, genuinely like playing locally but never had much luck with Xcloud. It's definitely better than it was but any game that is open world style/bigger maps has a lot of macroblocking.
It works so so perfectly, very pleased this finally became a reality, saved my hundreds lol! Been playing all day and haven't noticed any lag at all!
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