It looks like Microsoft has something new to reveal about Xbox Cloud Gaming this week, as Twitter account Aggiornamenti Lumia (which regularly scans the Microsoft Store for upcoming info) has teased a few details.
Taking to Twitter, they posted the official image you see below, which highlights something to do with the cloud and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Then, they issued the following details about what it could be related to:
Speculation has suggested this could be "a reference to using Xbox Cloud Gaming to stream while the game downloads in the background", although Aggiornamenti Lumia hasn't commented on any speculation so far.
According to them though, we'll find out in "just a few days", so it looks like we won't be waiting too long.
What do you think this image means? Give us your thoughts down in the comments below.
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Would help with some of those Microsoft rewards
This will complete the 3/3.
Personally I just want streaming direct to the Xbox. That would at least help determine if a game is worth downloading. I'd also be more likely to commit effort to some of the specific game quests that way.
Maybe they’re going to reduce the input lag
@The_New_Butler This seems the most likely, though I assume there may also be a push for all S/X exclusives to have cloud options on the XBO
Man, if only my internet connection is good enough to play Cloud Gaming, I'm definitely gonna try it because the price of PS5 & XBOX Series X is crazy here in Indonesia, even in a legit online market, the price is around 1000 USD here. I could upgrade my PC's GPU, but those RTX3060 is also around 1000 USD right now, my wallet is crying.
But the Xbox makes my downloads slow to a crawl while I'm playing something offline... how are they gonna stream AND d/l?
I guess technically the stream wouldn't be writing to the SSD, but still...
Could also be about finally getting the PC streaming client up and running. It's been in beta forever, and at times works worse than just using the client in Edge (or Chrome) though.
They still don't have the direct console streaming client working on PC for Series consoles yet (it exists in beta and can be sideloaded.)
I like the idea of this but surely you need very good internet speeds for this to work?
I get a decent xCloud experience on my 70Mbps connection, but if my wife starts streaming Netflix in 4K or something similar, the lag begins.
So I'd assume for this to work they would have to seriously throttle your game download for the xCloud stream to be playable?
Always exciting to hear rumors of the X.
@SplooshDmg I don't think thats gonna help when the internet speed here is about 10-30mbps, lol. Could get the 100mbps one but that's too damn expensive for me.
It won’t be this but I would love it if they brought in a way that you could download a game directly to a device so you can truly take it on the go without having to worry about how good or bad the 4/5G is etc. Cloud gaming is great BUT to have an option to download a game to take with you would make Xbox the true king of kings of gaming- would be epic.
But hey, I’m sadly dreaming here.
A couple of people have mentioned opening ports but not specified any details.
I followed the article here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/open-these-network-ports-for-xbox-one-94d5f68a-387c-1982-7163-6e12a4d9e981 to configure my router. I'd be interested if somebody has opened anything extra.
@The_New_Butler I hope you're right. I am lucky enough to have ridiculously fast internet speed already, but still, it would be really cool if I can literally start playing instantly.
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