Rumor: Microsoft in Discussions to Bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to 2 More Platforms
Microsoft is possibly in discussions to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to more platforms, according to a newly surfaced industry rumor. The feature, formerly known as xCloud and effectively tied to Xbox Game Pass, had its last major expansion in late 2022, when select Samsung TVs started supporting Xbox Cloud Gaming.
Microsoft has been touting cloud gaming as the future of gaming for years now, but its technology has yet to prove its mettle in the mainstream. The on-demand, cross-platform game library with no install times boasted by Xbox Cloud Gaming does offer immense mobility, but only for those who have a lot of bandwidth and modest performance expectations. As things stand in 2023, that's still not a large demographic.
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Regardless, Microsoft apparently remains eager to bring its streaming solution to more platforms. In one of its latest filings with the CMA, Microsoft highlighted its recent 10-year agreement with Nvidia to bring Xbox PC games to GeForce Now as the kind of streaming collaborations it's hoping to nurture moving forward. A newly shared excerpt from the filing mentions Steam and Epic Games Store as examples of platforms that could also access the Xbox Cloud Gaming catalog in the future, before revealing that Microsoft is currently in some sort of presumably related—but also redacted—discussions.
The notion of Xbox Cloud Gaming coming to more storefronts raises some interesting possibilities, not least because the streaming platform is effectively tied to Microsoft's subscription service, Xbox Game Pass. Playing anything but the free-to-play favorite Fortnite via Xbox Cloud Gaming requires a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, which starts at $14.99 per
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