Gamers Will Be Able To Stream Microsoft's Xbox Games Pass Titles Starting Sept. 15

Microsoft plans to make its Project xCloud streaming service for its Xbox Games Pass subscription service available to the public starting Sept. 15, following nearly a year of public testing. From a report: The company said the service, which allows people to play games over the internet in a similar way we stream Netflix movies today, will be included in its $14.99 per month Xbox Games Pass Ultimate service. That subscription, which launched last year, gives players access to more than 100 games on the Xbox and PC, as well as access to Microsoft's Xbox Live social network. Microsoft plans to offer the accompanying app for its service for tablets and phones powered by Google's Android software, using a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. The company also teased a partnership with Samsung, which will likely be announced at that tech giant's big Unpacked event on Aug. 5. The company declined to say when a version of its app will be made available for Apple iPhones and iPads powered by that company's iOS software. "It's our ambition to scale cloud gaming through Xbox Game Pass available on all devices," a Microsoft spokesman added.

So...

[zlives]

Like netflix, is all content (games) included for that price.

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[CastrTroy]

From my understanding, yes. But also like Netflix, the games library may change from time to time, so there's no guaranteeing your game of choice will be there tomorrow when you want to play.

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[sirpwn4g3]

This is true. Also with this service you get a discount, 10% I think, on any game in gamepass or it's DLC if you want to own it for good.

Response time

[Zagnar]

Every couple years, some streaming service is announced as the next big thing, and without fail, that service crashes and burns. Every. single. time.
The response times are just too high for serious gaming. These are hobbyists who spend hundreds to knock 10 ms off their display response, but game companies pitch streaming with triple digit response times and expect us to rush to their open arms.
Whoever's pushing this game streaming, they're not doing it for the benefit of gamers.

This is Microsoft's baby, the

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[sirpwn4g3]

I've been testing Xcloud for awhile and it works very well. It's certainly not there yet for competitive matchmaking, but I can easily play nearly any campaign game with almost zero issues, whether it be Halo 5 or Hellblade.

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[CastrTroy]

The thing is, not everybody is one of those people. I've tried a few services because I really want this to be a viable option. The one I like most is GeForce Now, because it just let you play whatever games you already own.$6.50 canadian a month to play games isn't really that bad. I can keep on using my current desktop for another decade, and it's already 5 years old. Even just the cost of buying a a video card like the 1660 would cost me $300, which would almost 4 years to pay off at $6.50 a month. Then

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[tlhIngan]

Every couple years, some streaming service is announced as the next big thing, and without fail, that service crashes and burns. Every. single. time.
The response times are just too high for serious gaming. These are hobbyists who spend hundreds to knock 10 ms off their display response, but game companies pitch streaming with triple digit response times and expect us to rush to their open arms.
Whoever's pushing this game streaming, they're not doing it for the benefit of gamers.

This is Microsoft's baby, the

eh

[Dale512]

I can stream games inside my LAN now via the steam linking. I use my nice gaming computer to play games in the living room with a less powerful PC and it works well. I'm not playing twitch type of shooters, but it ran Red Dead Redemption 2 just fine. I have also tried the internet streaming thing for couch co-op via Steam to much worse results. For some simple things it works fine (Overcooked for example) but less well for anything with any real system requirements. I can't imagine trying to play again

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[ledow]

I actually did this by accident.

Got a new laptop. Copied some games over on Steam. Let it sign in as usual.

Not thinking, turned it on the next day, and there was my usual Steam library... clicked a game. Then had a thought... I never installed that game!

Yep, it tried to RemotePlay from my old laptop that was transferring some files on my local network. I didn't even realise. I just clicked a game in my library.

(P.S. Turned all that shit off and just copied the steamapps folder across, double-click and

Only Game Pass titles

[HalAtWork]

None of the other games you have bought will be available for streaming, just whatever MS has up on Game Pass at the time. As they add some games, they remove others. There's no guarantee what you want to play is on there at the time.

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[sirpwn4g3]

If console streaming gets included then yes, you can play any game you own. Console streaming is currently available to test. It works well, but not as well as Xcloud.

What type of bandwidth does it take?

[razorh]

What's the lower limit?