MS announces its streaming service for public beta 2019 - Xcloud, MS officially 3rd party!!!

[Goukosan 2,249]

Its official, MS will be going full 3rd party 

 

"Public beta will be available in 2019 and with 54 Azure regions MS wants to deliver a great gaming experience no matter your location or the device you're playing with." 

 

Our goal with Project xCloud is to deliver a quality experience for all gamers on all devices that’s consistent with the speed and high-fidelity gamers experience and expect on their PCs and consoles.

 

To realize this vision, we know we must make it easy for developers to bring their content to Project xCloud. Developers of the more than 3,000 games available on Xbox One today, and those building the thousands that are coming in the future, will be able to deploy and dramatically scale access to their games across all devices on Project xCloud with no additional work.

 

 

This announcement marks the official death of the lemming faction. 

 

R.I.P 

[DynamiteCop 2,085]

You're hoping for way too much and reading those lines literally, it's like "Play Anywhere". You're not actually able to play anywhere..

 

This will never be on PlayStation or Nintendo anything, they're all experimenting and implementing their own stream services. This is going to become nothing but another console war but in the cloud.

Edited October 8, 2018 by DynamiteCop!

[Goukosan 2,249]

4 minutes ago, DynamiteCop! said:

You're hoping for way too much and reading those lines literally, it's like "Play Anywhere". You're not actually able to play anywhere..

 

This will never be on PlayStation or Nintendo anything, they're all experimenting and implementing their own stream services. This is going to become nothing but another console war but in the cloud.

It literally shows you playing Xbox1 games on an Android device. 

 

Nintendo does not have a competing streaming service, stop pulling shit out your ass. 

 

MS and Nintendo already are pushing play together for Minecraft. 

 

You already can log into your Xbox live account on Switch. 

 

You're correct that we most likely won't see it on Playstation, Sony doesn't even allow play together for Minecraft so they obviously won't allow this as they have their own competing streaming service. 

 

You're in denial if you don't think this will be on Switch devices by 2020 

[Remij 4,667]

When they say "any device" they actually mean "any open platform"...  Acting as if MS can just throw an app on PS4/5 or Switch/Switch2 and Sony and Nintendo are going to just let that happen... lol no.

 

The way they combat this is come with their own services available on all the same devices that MS plans to support.  They aren't going to be eager to help MS build up their ecosystem by playing on their devices... which they barely make much money on in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Goukosan 2,249]

Just now, Remij_ said:

When they say "any device" they actually mean "any open platform"...  Acting as if MS can just throw an app on PS4/5 or Switch/Switch2 and Sony and Nintendo are going to just let that happen... lol no.

 

The way they combat this is come with their own services available on all the same devices that MS plans to support.

 

Nintendo allows Xbox live account log in on Switch for "play together" with Minecraft.  Yes that's not streaming, but it shows they have no issues with their users using MS accounts on Switch. 

 

I agree it won't be on Playstation, that much is a given for obvious reasons. 

 

 

[-GD-X★ 7,728]

Not surprising. Their hardware doesn’t sell. Hopefully, aside from Forza, we get MS games that score higher than 6’s. 

[Goukosan 2,249]

@Remij and @DynamiteCop!

 

Did you guys watch the video in the OP. 

 

They literally said "there are 2 billion gamers worldwide, what if everyone play Halo etc together regardless of device or console" 

 

Sounds pretty cut and dry that they're aiming to have this on as much devices as possible 

[Remij 4,667]

Just now, Goukosan said:

Nintendo allows Xbox live account log in on Switch for "play together" with Minecraft.  Yes that's not streaming, but it shows they have no issues with their users using MS accounts on Switch. 

 

I agree it won't be on Playstation, that much is a given for obvious reasons. 

 

 

I agree that Nintendo and MS seem to have a bit closer of a relationship, and maybe there's a way that Nintendo and MS could work out specific titles to be available to stream to the platform.  I still don't believe that currently, Nintendo would be too keen to have the entire Xbox library available to their users.  There's a ton of things to consider since it's not an open platform.  Such as whether certain titles would meet Nintendo's ethical standards, whether there would be licencing problems... how 3rd parties would react and how that could affect future Switch releases.. stuff like that.

 

Imagine if they supported MS' streaming.. then a multiplat game releases... and people were simply streaming it from MS because the gfx looked better.. or it could stream at 60fps instead of native 30 on the Switch itself.  That wouldn't be good for Nintendo or their partners.  Not to mention, in that scenario... it's more likely that the Switch would be used in that way.  It would turn into an Xbox streaming device for a lot of people.. and then people would just play multiplats by streaming them.  Which seems to work against what I feel Nintendo is working towards.. which is getting more 3rd party support with games that are built specifically for their system.

[Remij 4,667]

7 minutes ago, Goukosan said:

@Remij and @DynamiteCop!

 

Did you guys watch the video in the OP. 

 

They literally said "there are 2 billion gamers worldwide, what if everyone play Halo etc together regardless of device or console" 

 

Sounds pretty cut and dry that they're aiming to have this on as much devices as possible 

I did...  You can't take it literally.  The "regardless of device or console" means that they are talking about playing TOGETHER... meaning cross system.. regardless of the device they offer it to.  So Xbox and tablets/phones.. Xbox and PCs... PCs and tablets/Phones... PC's and Xbox... and all 3... because they connect to the same platform Xbox Live.

 

"Everyone" can own a console... and a phone.. and a PC... It doesn't mean that every PC, Phone, and console will support their streaming.

 

Obviously their goal is to have it on the highest amount of devices possible... including PS and Switch... but dude, they don't get to make that decision because those are closed platforms that directly compete with them.

[Goukosan 2,249]

2 minutes ago, Remij_ said:

I agree that Nintendo and MS seem to have a bit closer of a relationship, and maybe there's a way that Nintendo and MS could work out specific titles to be available to stream to the platform.  I still don't believe that currently, Nintendo would be too keen to have the entire Xbox library available to their users.  There's a ton of things to consider since it's not an open platform.  Such as whether certain titles would meet Nintendo's ethical standards, whether there would be licencing problems... how 3rd parties would react and how that could affect future Switch releases.. stuff like that.

 

Imagine if they supported MS' streaming.. then a multiplat game releases... and people were simply streaming it from MS because the gfx looked better.. or it could stream at 60fps instead of native 30 on the Switch itself.  That wouldn't be good for Nintendo or their partners.  Not to mention, in that scenario... it's more likely that the Switch would be used in that way.  It would turn into an Xbox streaming device for a lot of people.. and then people would just play multiplats by streaming them.  Which seems to work against what I feel Nintendo is working towards.. which is getting more 3rd party support with games that are built specifically for their system.

You will still need non streamed games for when you're playing Switch in  portable mode with no access to internet. 

 

 

Nintendo already allows streamed games on 3DS and Switch from 3rd parties, they make money of it by getting a cut of the subscription to stream and now you need an additional subscription to even play online with Switch. 

 

They could another tier of their subscription for this. 

 

With all that said... this won't replace traditional consoles as yet...I believe we have one more Gen before this fully matures to replace consoles. 

[hoshino 148]

gg

 

it's been real lems.

 

you're third party now and your faction will be disbanded later today

[Goukosan 2,249]

7 minutes ago, Remij_ said:

I did...  You can't take it literally.  The "regardless of device or console" means that they are talking about playing TOGETHER... meaning cross system.. regardless of the device they offer it to.  So Xbox and tablets/phones.. Xbox and PCs... PCs and tablets/Phones... PC's and Xbox... and all 3... because they connect to the same platform Xbox Live.

 

"Everyone" can own a console... and a phone.. and a PC... It doesn't mean that every PC, Phone, and console will support their streaming.

 

Obviously their goal is to have it on the highest amount of devices possible... including PS and Switch... but dude, they don't get to make that decision because those are closed platforms that directly compete with them.

Of course initially it will be Xbox1, any mobile device and PC. 

 

Won't be surprised if it comes to Switch eventually. 

 

MS doesn't really have the strongest first party lineup.   Nintendo first party games on Switch will still be fine. 

 

Whatever streamed games come will come down the road +  Native 1st and 3rd party games. 

[Remij 4,667]

This is kind of fucking fascinating.

 

 

 

MS has definitely been doing some crazy work in this area.  This seems to me looks like what Crackdown 3 will supposedly do with their physics calculation being handled server side.

 

This shit is interesting as fuck.  Essentially, MS could use GPU offload to even take Xbox 2 and PC highest end games, and push them even farther by enhancing extra detail levels if the game supported it.  That's cool as fuck that they can render these extra details and stream them to the client device.

[-GD-X★ 7,728]

18 minutes ago, teh_4th said:

gg

 

it's been real lems.

 

you're third party now and your faction will be disbanded later today

Bodycount jumped ship at the right time. 

[Playstation Tablet 1,723]

PS4/PS5 right now are off the table.

 

But multiple insiders have confirmed an XBox streaming app is coming to Switch,  So yeah, sorry lems, while you compare Tomb Raider and Ass Creed between Pro and X, the sheep have already beaten your ass.

[Remij 4,667]

Just now, Beta Bux Romeo said:

PS4/PS5 right now are off the table.

 

But multiple insiders have confirmed an XBox streaming app is coming to Switch,  So yeah, sorry lems, while you compare Tomb Raider and Ass Creed between Pro and X, the sheep have already beaten your ass.

Nobody has confirmed anything lmao... 

[Playstation Tablet 1,723]

2 minutes ago, Remij_ said:

Nobody has confirmed anything lmao... 

Multiple insiders have said the streaming is coming to Switch, espcially since they don't view it as direct competition. Stop playing dumb.

[Remij 4,667]

2 minutes ago, Beta Bux Romeo said:

Multiple insiders have said the streaming is coming to Switch, espcially since they don't view it as direct competition. Stop playing dumb.

lmao.. your words mean nothing.  Either post the sources or shut the fuck up  

[TLHBO 2,158]

Lemmings in major denial

 

We've waited 17 years for this day. Finally it is over my brothers. Xbox is dead. Long live PlayStation.

[Ike★ 2,906]

This is coming to Switch. Lems are in denial.