Xbox Cloud Gaming was specifically made to reach mobile players

Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming initiative was originally created to bring Xbox games to mobile devices, but the streaming offshoot has 'missed traction'

[shinoff2183]

And now it'll curse everyone. Console gamers don't won't this. Ask people who even buy digital or subscribe to gamepass and ps plus. No one is streaming , we're downloading them

[Golfcoachh]

I stream. I have been streaming quite few games. My internet connection is pretty good and its a great way for me to try a game before downloading it with limited storage space. Its not the end all be all, but it is quite useful. I am 17 games into a MLB franchise season and I stream it every time with no issues. I also stream flight simulator every time I play it.

[crazyCoconuts]

On average, in an hour of streaming, how many times do you get done kind of diminished service... Like artifacts or noticable frame skips?

[andy85]

@crazyCoconuts I played Forza for 4 hours and I barely noticed any slowdown and no disconnects. I'll give them their due it works really well. Not sure if that's because I have a decent mobile connection though

[rlow1]

Have you tried it? because I’ve not had any problems with it.

[andy85]

I stream Xbox at work on my phone. It works really well tbh. I've said for ages I wish PS had something similar

[ocelot07]

If Microsoft has gotten anything right over the last 5 years. It's deffinetly xcloud. The past week and a half I have found my self playing Xbox games via xcloud on the steam deck rather than the series s. It just works (quoting Mr truthful Tod Howard).

Little to no latency issues. Performance is good it looks great on the deck. Tempted to just sell the S and stick with the cloud on the deck.

Even though I rather Sony just stick to focusing on games. I kind of wish they improve there streaming a bit more. Not to say it's bad it's just not as good as xcloud.

[crazyCoconuts]

I've always speculated that Sony just kinda gave up on it because they weren't seeing the adoption. They had PS Now operational years before Xbox even announced interest, and were going to roll it out EVERYWHERE. Then they just stopped. I could picture the accountants running the numbers on how much infrastructure is required to bring service to so few people. Maybe things will pick up in the future, but I still think the use cases are pretty limited

[darthv72]

Setup aside... the deck makes for a great xcloud client. i just wish it had a native app instead of using the edge browser. Overall, i find myself using that when i dont want to fire up the real console, or when im just kicking back on the couch.

[shadowT]

I like the concept, mobile is a hugh market