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Xbox Cloud Gaming Improvements Coming this May (Beta)
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Hope they announce the ability to play all owned content (not just game pass content) via xcloud at the showcase too.
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Hellblade marketing
SEGAvangelist
Member
Surprised they are still working on xCloud at all. Feels like they killed it once it was an issue for the ABK deal.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
OverHeat
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Soon on the PlayStation dashboardHellblade marketing
Negotiator101
Member
That's temporary isn't it?
SEGAvangelist
Member
2 years doesn't feel temporary to me.
Bridges
Member
That's what I want more than anything.
Let me play Balatro on my phone!
It's also a little strange that a lot of games have had custom touch controls added in and then were removed from Game Pass less than a year later.
They need to at least move away from using the Series S as the host, when the PS5 has better streaming quality because it's not from a gimped version of the game you know something is off.
hououinkyouma00
Member
I tried Xcloud again this morning when I got my new iPad and I forgot how bad it looked and ran. How does it look THAT bad?
MarkMe2525
Banned
The image quality issues are greatly overstated. It's not 4k, but perfectly fine with good input response (at least where I have used it.)
if you're using xcloud it certainly isn't for the IQ and personally i try and limit my exposure to video games not having them in every single facet of my life, but this is definitely useful under certain situations, back when they had rewards for playing certain game pass games i would just use xcloud instead of having to install them.
i think it scales depending on your connection
THE DUCK
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The better question is why is there not a native app for balatro on iPhone and Android? Take like 2 months to make and seems like a perfect fit. .......
Edit....
Smash hit Balatro is coming to iPhone and Android
Soon you’ll devote every waking moment to rogue poker.
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Banjo64
cumsessed
Sarah Bond said new ways to access xCloud are coming - I’m hoping she means an xCloud only subscription for £4.99 a month. Would be good to coincide it with these updates.
They’ve shot and missed with their tiers IMO. Should scrap Core and go:
£4.99 a month for xCloud on 1 device.
£8.99 a month for PC or console Game Pass (no game sharing on Xbox but online play is included).
£12.99 a month Ultimate which gives you all of the above and game sharing for 2 consoles.
They’ve shot and missed with their tiers IMO. Should scrap Core and go:
£4.99 a month for xCloud on 1 device.
£8.99 a month for PC or console Game Pass (no game sharing on Xbox but online play is included).
£12.99 a month Ultimate which gives you all of the above and game sharing for 2 consoles.
hououinkyouma00
Member
I’ve got gigabit fiber, and a WiFi 6 mesh router so when it comes to my end of the connection it should be fine. Now whether or not I’m close to a server is a different story. Lots of other people complaining about this though as well so.
T-Cake
Member
Yeah, they're running 4 instances of Series S on a Series X hardware blade. They need to ditch that and just run the Series X in 4K.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
No issues where I’m located, luckily. Runs so well sometimes I forget I’m streaming. Can say the same about GeForceNow.
hououinkyouma00
Member
It’s gotta be a server thing then. GeForce Now and even the PS5 streaming work perfectly fine for me.
Image quality is quite ass thats why I stick with with indie, 360 and below games. The wait queue the play sometimes makes it unusable.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
Never had issues with PSNOW when I used it, even back when it was Gaikai it was awesome. OnLive was total trash, stadia was fine, ShadowPC was quite decent. Game streaming is still a ways away from being viable for me as an everyday service.
DavidGzz
Gold Member
Just noticed mouse and keyboard seemed to be enabled now for ~24 games. Also, lag is much better on my end. The image could still be better but I'm at work on a ho-hum connection so maybe it's a me problem. I used to have too much lag using a vpn, but it's fine now.
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DavidGzz
Gold Member
Can confirm, mouse and keyboard are enabled but it was also laggy for me in Halo. Way better with the controller.