Phil Spencer: Streaming is About Convenience and Providing a Choice When Away From Your Console - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 January 2020 / 2,761 Views
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer and other members of xCloud spoke with Game Informer in an interview about the streaming service.
Spencer said that the best place to game is locally, however, xCloud is about providing "convenience" and a "choice" for when you are away from your console and want to plat your games.
"The best place to play is locally; I’ll say that flat-out," said Spencer. "Streaming is a technology of convenience. It’s a technology of choice when you’re away from your console and you want to play."
The corporate vice president of Project xCloud Kareem Choudhry added that they are not building a brand-new platform.
"We’re not building a brand-new platform – we’re not having to start from scratch," said Choudhry. "Some of the greatest stories we’ve seen in Preview is people who played Halo 5 years ago, they log in and it’s their save data. It’s all their achievements. All their progression. That’s just an extension of everything that we’re doing."
"What we’ve found is that consistency of latency is actually much more important than the absence of latency," he added. "We’re doing a lot of work to make sure it’s consistent as possible. People kind of adjusted the timing and they’re able to play a game like Killer Instinct in our public preview right now, and Tekken 7, and other ones that you would think would be very, very sensitive to latency."
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The irony is no mobile provider, will give you data caps that allows you make any decent usage of such "convenience".
I like the idea of being able to continue progress in a game via streaming. I did that while using the xCloud beta. The only problem is latency and not every connection in public is viable. I would also like MS to allow streaming from console to phone, much like the PC app already does.
Are you really in the Beta? You can steam from console to smartphone.
Found it, but its not available to me. Just has a button to "Learn More" but nothing to join or whatvere. I just have access to cloud streaming.
PS NOW has been doing this since 2014 and just now seeing that MICROSOFT is doing it everybody talks about it. Also PS Now has over 800+ games to Game Pass 200+ games. If somebody at the administration from this site thinks that I have an alternate ID on this site you'd be incorrect as for my trolling/flaming comments I speak the truth.
I had 90% of my games digital. i can play them offline or online. ¿what is the problem with a discless console? streaming is not the same.
All your digital games can be streamed to other devices.
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