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After a successful showing at this year’s E3 2021 event, the
bigwigs over at Microsoft are still on a mission to please Xbox players
everywhere. According to a titbit of information buried in a post on the Xbox News Wire, players who are yet to purchase a next-gen console won’t be cut off
from playing the latest Triple-A titles specifically tailored for Series S|X,
thanks to a little help from xCloud.
xCloud is of course Microsoft’s dedicated streaming
technology that allows you to play Xbox games through Game Pass on your PC,
mobile device or console. The last major xCloud boon we heard about xCloud was
that it would soon come to internet browsers, removing the need to download an
individual PC client and instead get straight to the good stuff. Well, for
those still with an Xbox One, accessing next-gen only titles like Forza Horizon
5 and Microsoft Flight Simulator is also about to get a lot easier. That big
square machine underneath your TV isn’t quite obsolete yet.
“For the millions of people who play on Xbox One consoles
today, we are looking forward to sharing more about how we will bring many of
these next-gen games, such as Microsoft Flight Simulator, to your console
through Xbox Cloud Gaming, just like we do with mobile devices, tablets, and
browsers,” explained Will Tuttle, Microsoft’s Xbox Wire EIC.
What Tuttle didn’t explain was the date in which xCloud
would be made available on Xbox One devices. And even then, it’s highly likely that
this option to play next-gen games – without the hardware capable of running it
natively – will only be useful for players with a strong internet connection. If
you’re stuck with an internet speed that’s less than 50mbps, for instance, expect
to see regular framerate skips and connection dips.
We’ll keep you posted as soon as we hear more about xCloud’s
potential arrival on Xbox One consoles. For now the streaming tech works pretty
well on PC, Android and iOS for those that use it. After all, anything that allows
players to play newer games with the tech they already own can only be a good
thing.
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