In case you were worried that Xbox’s forays into cloud gaming were going to make your gaming PC or Xbox console obsolete in the near future; it’s not, because Phil said so.
Speaking at the Gamelab 2020 conference, head of Xbox Phil Spencer wanted to make it clear that their, currently in beta testing, xCloud service is not going to replace your console or PC. In fact, the cloud gaming service is just meant to be another option for people that want it, alongside console and PC gaming.
I’ve never tried to position xCloud as a replacement for your gaming PC or for a console. I like to sit down in front of the big screen and play on a console. I’m sitting here at my PC rig right now and I like to play here. But I’m not always in front of those two devices and I want to be able to play where I want to go play on the device that I choose.
He also suggested that game streaming isn’t going to be “the highest fidelity place to go play a game”, be it on Azure or any other data centre, “any time soon”.
xCloud will, however, be added to the Xbox Game Pass in the very near future and, to help with this, Microsoft engineers are “adding ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Azure server blades around the world”.
Are you excited for the possibilities xCloud will bring? Oh the places you’ll game once we’re allowed to, y’know, go places.
Via GameSpot.