Steam Deck gets armed with Xbox Cloud Streaming support

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As if the industry wasn’t already finding a variety of reasons to be excited over the Steam Deck and its promising future prospects, the new system has just gained another ace feature: Xbox Cloud Streaming support.

Microsoft worked directly with Valve to ensure that the Steam Deck can fully support Xbox Cloud Streaming. Microsoft even put out a guide for Steam Deck users to follow to get things up and running properly. The only downside is that users have to use everyone’s favorite Internet browser — Microsoft Edge.

The actual process of getting everything set up isn’t as easy as “1-2-3.” Microsoft warns that even before you to get to the Edge portion of the process, you’ll have to tinker around with the Linux desktop and some terminal commands. Accessing Xbox Cloud Streaming via the Steam Deck in its current form is objectively more complicated than any other device, such as a tablet or modest laptop. Even so, at least it increases the Steam Deck’s usability by giving it access to games that it otherwise could not via the Steam platform.

Microsoft Flight Simulator was recently added to the Xbox Cloud Gaming library. This allows it to now be playable on the Deck, which isn’t the case natively.

For instance, the Steam Deck is not compatible with Microsoft Flight Simulator natively due to “anti-cheat” measures, according to Microsoft itself. However, Microsoft Flight Simulator was recently added to the Xbox Cloud Gaming library. So, now you can fly with the Deck.

Compared to a traditional tablet, which is about the closest thing to a Steam Deck from a hardware comparison perspective, the Deck is by all means the more streamlined option for cloud gaming. While this method is not as straightforward, the fact that the Deck