Microsoft Looking to Make Xbox Series X|S Games Playable on Xbox One Via the Cloud - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 July 2021 / 1,189 Views
Microsoft via an Xbox Wire post announced it is looking to make its Xbox Series X|S games playable for Xbox One owners via the cloud.
"Some games launching next year from our first party studios and partners, such as Starfield, Redfall, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 require the speed, performance, and technology of Xbox Series X|S," reads the Xbox Wire post. "We’re excited to see developers realize their visions in ways that only next-gen hardware will allow them to do.
"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."
Microsoft currently offers cloud gaming on mobile devices and web browsers for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers. The service will also be made available through smart TVs in the future where all you will need is an Xbox controller and the Xbox app installed on your smart TV in order to play Xbox games.
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Actually a smart move. Give X1 owners that can't upgrade yet a reason to stay subbed to gamepass when gen 8 starts to get cut out. Really sinple for MS to pull off as well.
Great move.
But why stream it, though? What happened to this:
"Microsoft has hundreds of thousands of servers and dozens of data centers geographically distributed all around the planet, and Xbox One has the ability to instantly tap in to that limitless computational horsepower," Henshaw explained. With that extra cloud power, Microsoft is able "to take the number of asteroids from 40,000 to 330,000, and any device doing the computational math to realistically in real-time chart the orbital velocity of 330,000 asteroids would melt a hole in the ground, but Xbox One is able to do it without even breaking a sweat because it's pulling in virtualized cloud computing resources."
This was in 2013: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-06-14-xbox-one-has-power-of-10-xbox-360-consoles-says-microsoft
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